Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
Why do crisis or business continuity exercises? Are exercises really that valuable to maturing a crisis management or business continuity strategy? In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser takes on that topic and more. Topics discussed include effective exercises, tabletop exercises, simulation exercises, integrated exercises, business continuity, crisis …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #40: Why we exercise our plansRead More
The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is an incident management system any hospital can use to manage threats, planned events, and emergencies. It gives the hospital a predictable command structure when normal operations stop working, and it is built on the same principles as the Incident Command System (ICS) that fire, EMS, and emergency management …
The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS): An Overview for Hospital LeadersRead More
Often, when we hear of corporate missteps, the stories after are all about what a company did wrong. This is why it is so refreshing to see a business like Starbucks, which in 2018 handled a serious PR issue with compassion and aplomb. Instead of the marred reputation that often follows a public relations misstep, …
Most public relations crises are not communications failures. They are business decisions, policies, or behaviors that fail in public. The communication either contains the damage or makes it worse. That changes how you avoid a public relations crisis. You don’t avoid one with better press releases. You avoid one by finding the problem before the …
How to Avoid a Public Relations Crisis, and What to Do When You Can’tRead More
We’re excited to announce the addition of Bray Wheeler to the Bryghtpath LLC team! Bray joins us from Target Corporation where he most recently led the development of Target’s enterprise response management program. Bray spent fourteen years at Target where he worked in progressively responsible positions in assets protection, corporate security, crisis management, intelligence, and …
Continuing our three-part series on Communication – Episode #36 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast focuses on the new product launch — what do you do when you’re ready to launch your new initiative, system, project, or product inside of a company? In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba discuss …
What happens when you find yourself in the middle of a crisis, some of your facilities are impacted, and suddenly you need to relocate several critical teams to an alternate workplace for an indeterminate period of time. If you have planned well, then you’re ready to execute your plan. But if you haven’t…. In this …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #35: Alternate Workplace Strategies for Business ContinuityRead More
Continuing our three part series on Communication – Episode #34 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast is focused on what happens after the “BOOM!”… or in other words, we’re going to focus on crisis communications. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk candidly about crisis communications. Topics discussed include …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #34: Communicating after the BoomRead More
How often does a leader in security, crisis management, or business continuity find that their team is doing great things, but absolutely no one in the company knows anything about it? In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk candidly about communications and awareness strategies in the first part …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #33: Communication and Awareness StrategiesRead More
Back in February, Minneapolis, Minnesota was the host of Super Bowl 52. We previously discussed preparing for a major event like a Super Bowl in an earlier episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba take a look back at Super Bowl 52 …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #32: Super Bowl 52 RecapRead More
Following a difficult, traumatic, or violent incident, there are a lot of challenges to work through. But when planning and thinking through how to handle these situations, we often focus almost wholly on the response and tend to ignore the short and long-term recovery challenges. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & …
We don’t do politics on our podcast, but given last week’s tragedy in Florida, we thought it would be worthwhile to talk about school threat management. In particular, the threat management environment in a K-12 school is quite different than what we typically encounter in a business or university environment. In this episode of the …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #30: School Threat ManagementRead More
On this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser announces the launch of two new mini-courses that round out our free mini-course offerings: Crisis Management 101 Business Continuity 101 Both courses are completely free with lessons delivered via e-mail each day. We hope you enjoy them! Episode Transcript Bryan Strawser: Everyone, it’s Bryan Strawser here …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #29: The Courses are MiniRead More
At Bryghtpath, we’re often asked about risks and threats faced by Senior Executives of major corporations and non-profits – and how to best go about planning for those risks. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through our experiences with protecting senior executives. Topics discussed include executive protection, …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #28: Protecting your Senior ExecutivesRead More
As a woman who has spent nearly her entire career in the field of Business Continuity – and now as a Business Continuity Consultant – I’ve always been interested in how few women have risen to executive positions in business continuity and related fields. A couple of studies around Women in Business Continuity Management (BCM) …
Super Bowl 52 will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, just down the road from our offices in Shoreview, on Sunday, February 4th, 2018. It will be on one of the largest events hosted in Minnesota in decades. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through our experiences with …
It’s 2018 and we’re back with our first episode of the new year. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through Bryghtpath’s view of the Top 12 Global Risks of 2018. Topics discussed include national security, the global economy, lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season, cybersecurity, and …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #26 – The Top 12 Global Risks of 2018Read More
You may have missed our Managing Uncertainty Podcast episode from December 26th on To BIA or Not to BIA, where my colleagues discuss the trend of not completing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). This was a follow-up podcast to a previous episode of Managing Uncertainty that discussed the Traditional BIA. Both podcasts are great and …
Why Failing to Validate Your Business Impact Analysis Results Is a Huge MistakeRead More
Starting anything new can be a struggle, as can revamping or adding to existing programs. Often an organization will experience a violent event that can cost them both monetarily and have serious reputational impacts. Even worse, a violent event can lead to loss of a beloved co-worker and family member with long-lasting impact on the …
Crisis management is how your organization prepares for, responds to, and recovers from events that threaten its people, its operations, its reputation, or its survival. That is the whole definition. Everything else in this post is about what it means in practice. Most people asking “what is crisis management?” picture a spokesperson at a podium. …
What Is Crisis Management? Definition, Goal, and the BasicsRead More
In last week’s episode, we discussed the traditional approach to the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), a part of the Business Continuity Lifecycle. This week, we’re going to talk about the trend towards not doing the BIA at all. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through the …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #25 – To BIA or not to BIARead More
NFPA 1600 no longer exists as a standalone standard. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) folded it into NFPA 1660, and the 2024 edition of NFPA 1660 is now the current version of everything NFPA 1600 used to cover. If your policy, your audit criteria, or your vendor requirements still cite “NFPA 1600,” the requirements …
NFPA 1660 (Formerly NFPA 1600): An Overview of the Standard and How to Use ItRead More
We’re often asked about the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process, a part of the Business Continuity lifecycle, and how that should be structured within an organization. Over the next two episodes, we’ll take a look at the BIA, starting with the traditional business impact analysis process, followed by a look next week at the trend …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #24 – The Traditional Business Impact Analysis (BIA)Read More
As the 2017 Hurricane season has wrapped up, we’ve spoken with several clients and prospects who call asking about building crisis management plans for the next round of hurricanes in 2018. We always steer the conversation back to “Plans are great, but a framework is the real starting point so that no matter the threat …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #23 – Crisis Management is not a Pickup GameRead More
