Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
This article is the second in a two-part series dedicated to helping crisis team leaders and team members prepare for their next crisis. You can read part I at this link. As a newly minted member of your organization’s crisis management team, it’s normal to have a ton of questions (and probably anxieties) about what …
Suiting Up for a Crisis Part II: The Crisis Management TeamRead More
This article is part of a two-part series dedicated to helping crisis team leaders and team members prepare for their next crisis. An average of 60 hours of training is required to become a certified first responder. 600 hours to become a firefighter. And to become a crisis management leader? A whopping zero. And yet …
Is it just me, or is “resilience” the new buzzword? The concept seems straightforward in a personal context; building up the psychological fortitude to bounce back from all of life’s bumps and bruises. But what exactly does it mean for a business to be “resilient”? We hear a lot of business leaders and highly trained …
Sometimes a Bryghtpath client will call my phone late at night or early in the morning. They aren’t check-in calls or social calls. Something has happened at their company, and they’re calling to ask for help. In my nearly 30 years working in business continuity & crisis management, I’ve received calls for: Workplace fatalities Active …
Before the Crisis: The Value of a Trusted Business Continuity & Crisis Management AdvisorRead More
With the continued impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, employee and customer safety are at a critical junction this holiday season and will remain intertwined well into 2021. The holiday season has brought new challenges to an already tenuous situation. The U.S. continues to experience high infection rates, exacerbated by a post-Thanksgiving surge from which we’re …
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey and swept up the East Coast causing major damage in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. At the time, Sandy was the second-largest Atlantic storm on record, following behind only Hurricane Katrina, which had ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005. In 2017, following Hurricanes …
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. It’s a global disaster, and no organization has been unaffected, whether they be small, medium, or large. Many companies have teetered over the edge into bankruptcy, some that were already struggling, but also others that were seemingly resilient enough to weather the storm. The Congressional Budget Office …
Most Crisis Management & Business Continuity exercises are slow-moving, ponderous affairs that might check the box on an audit report but do little to create the environment that enables a true test of the plan and build the “muscle memory” necessary to mature a crisis management process or a business continuity plan. In our view, crisis management & …
Webinar: Leading crisis & business continuity exercises that don’t suckRead More
