Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the experiences and inspiration that led to Bryghtpath’s founding in 2014. Topics discussed include Bryghtpath’s core values, learning how to sell, distilling expertise into products, and life outside corporate America. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Article: Our Core Values …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #160: Bryghtpath’s Origin StoryRead More
Strategy. It’s what separates the winners from the losers. In sports. In war. And in business. So why do so many organizations fail to implement one for their crisis and business continuity exercises and then wonder why their program continues to flail? Implementing a crisis and business continuity exercise strategy doesn’t have to be complicated. …
How to Build a Crisis & Business Continuity Exercise StrategyRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses our new Ultimate Guide to Crisis Management, where we explain everything you need to know about Crisis Management. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Article: The Ultimate Guide to Crisis Management Article: The Ultimate Guide to Business Continuity
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #159: The Ultimate Guide to Crisis ManagementRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses trust in Business Continuity and Crisis Management programs and the importance of ensuring your program is aligned with the strategic objectives of your organization and maintaining credible relationships with your program’s stakeholders and executives. Related Episodes & Blog Posts …
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses our new product, Exercise in a Box. Created by our battle-tested experts at Bryghtpath, Exercise in a Box is a set of crisis and continuity exercises that can be executed by a business leader in under an hour and …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #157: Exercise in a BoxRead More
Business continuity software will not fix a business continuity program. The right platform, well implemented, will scale a good one. That is the whole argument of this post, and it decides how you should choose. Most organizations shopping for business continuity planning (BCP) software start with the vendors. Start with your program instead: what you …
How to Choose the Best Business Continuity SoftwareRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about recent failures in crisis leadership & incident command. Related Articles & Episodes: Navy Times: Vice Admiral and two dozen others punished for USS Bonhomme Richard fire Texas Tribune: “Systemic failures” in Uvalde shooting went far beyond local police, …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #156: Someone has to be in chargeRead More
Business continuity and crisis planning is not a one-and-done event. Still, I see a lot of businesses make this pivotal mistake. They put in a lot of work conducting their initial business impact analysis (BIA), identifying the resilience gaps, creating plans, policies, lists, and procedures, and distributing these throughout the organization. Then they quit. In …
What (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong About the Business Continuity LifecycleRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about how to find success in an engagement with a business continuity consultant. Topics discussed include ideal client and consultant fit, understanding organizational culture, the need to allow your chosen experts to have direct interaction with executives, and more. …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #154: Finding Success with a Business Continuity ConsultantRead More
Are you an executive leader wondering how you can more effectively champion your business continuity and crisis management program as an executive sponsor? While many companies recognize that active executive sponsorship is a top driver of project or program success, they often do little to equip executive sponsors on how to do it well. We …
How to Champion Your Business Continuity Program as an Executive SponsorRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses our product, Crisis Playbook, where we offer pre-written crisis management & crisis communications plans for many situations, including active assailant/active shooter, fatality, natural disasters, and other emergency situations. We describe Crisis Playbook as: Developing custom crisis management, crisis communications, …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #153: Crisis PlaybookRead More
Why would a successful crisis management & business continuity leader walk away from a successful twenty-plus year career at a Fortune 30 corporation to start a new business from scratch? After all, I was leading a program with global scope and scale, a large and talented team that was the envy of the industry, and …
Walking away from a Fortune 30 Company to start from scratchRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about our recently published Ultimate Guide to Business Continuity. Topics discussed include what is business continuity, why business continuity is important, how business continuity fits into an overall resilience strategy, and where to go to learn more about Business …
Managing Uncertainty Episode #152: The Ultimate Guide to Business ContinuityRead More
If you think that having good governance for your business continuity and crisis management program is just an exercise in bureaucratic box-checking, you’re missing the point. Like most people who come to us with a problem, you might have issues: Getting your executives to care about your business continuity and crisis management program Getting other …
Why Good Business Continuity Governance Is Critical to ResilienceRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about the idea that you get one chance to do it right when launching a new program or kicking off a new initiative within your existing program. Related Episodes & Articles Episode #149: Things I wish I knew 10 …
Managing Uncertainty Episode #151: You get one chance to do it rightRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser reflects on 6 years of podcasting on Managing Uncertainty. Topics discussed include what we’ve learned about podcasting and the impact that Managing Uncertainty has made. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Episode #149: Things I wish I knew 10 years ago …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #150: Reflections on 6 yearsRead More
The old tongue-in-cheek saying that “a camel is a horse designed by committee” has an ironic application to the team approach in reacting to crises. Contrary to the implied criticism of committee work, if a camel had been designed by a committee, the final product would be the animal best adapted to its desert environment—a …
How to Set Up a Crisis Management Team in Your OrganizationRead More
Business continuity and crisis management experts rarely talk about the gap between business continuity and IT disaster recovery planning. But they should. The distance between the IT disaster recovery program you have and what you need could be bigger than you think. Like one of our clients whose IT disaster recovery plans for several critical …
Closing the Gap Between Business Continuity & IT Disaster RecoveryRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about things he wishes he knew 10 years ago as a Crisis & Continuity Professional. Topics discussed include marketing your business continuity program, the connections between your program and your organization’s overall business objectives & strategies, leading and influencing …
In most organizations, the only times a business leader and their team learn about business continuity & crisis management is when the time comes to update their business impact analysis and associated plans – or when an incident or crisis occurs. It’s not a great way to drive business continuity awareness. This is a huge …
How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organizationRead More
A business continuity plan only helps if it works, and the only way to know is to test it. The right business continuity exercise scenarios are how you find out where your plan breaks, in a conference room instead of in the middle of the real thing. Most plans fail quietly: an outdated call tree, …
7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios You Need to Prepare ForRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses three books he’s read that have impacted our business. The three books: You’re It: Crisis, Change,and How to Lead When It Matters Most, by Leonard J. Marcus, Eric J. McNulty, Joseph M. Henderson, & Barry C. Dorn. The Business …
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses organizational core values, what they mean for an organization, and how Bryghtpath approached developing our core values. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Bryghtpath’s Core Values Episode #116: Tools We Use At Bryghtpath (2021 Edition) Episode #143: A Typical Week …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #147: Bryghtpath’s Core ValuesRead More
Selling your business continuity program to your internal stakeholders is a lot like telling your kid to eat her veggies while yours are neatly swept onto the rim of your plate or otherwise smothered in ranch and cheese. You know they’re good for you, but how do you convince your kid that all those vitamins, …
What’s the Value of Business Continuity: Beyond ROIRead More
