As your company’s newly assigned head of global security, you’ve just been informed that running your organization’s business continuity program falls squarely within your role. But what is business continuity? Sure, you’re a battle-tested veteran in managing security for large-scale enterprises. Business continuity? Not so much. The revelation leaves you feeling a lot like that time you …
How to Gain Traction for your Business Continuity Program
Gaining traction for business continuity and crisis management activities with people (who aren’t already on the business continuity bandwagon) has always been challenging. And now we’re stuck in a crisis fatigue hangover of unprecedented proportions. It’s no surprise that nearly every single business continuity professional we talk to right now is struggling to get their …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #170 – Bryghtpath’s Long Term Recovery Framework
In Episode #170 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler, discuss Bryghtpath’s Long-Term Recovery Framework. When a crisis has shifted beyond the initial response phase and you’re settling in for the long-term recovery effort, our Long-Term Recovery Framework helps lay out the areas where …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #165: Behind the Scenes of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses what it takes to write, record, edit, and produce one of the leading crisis management and business continuity podcasts in the world. Topics discussed include how to podcast got started, the equipment used for the podcast, and what makes …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #162: Leveraging National Preparedness Month
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses how to use National Preparedness Month to create leverage and awareness for your business continuity and crisis management programs. Topics discussed include what National Preparedness Month is, the themes for national preparedness month, and how those themes relate to …
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Using Crisis Microsimulations to Counter Crisis Fatigue and Boost Resilience
Pandemics, droughts, floods, school shootings, political turmoil, war. Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of us are stuck in a riptide of never-ending crises? Flailing arms, saltwater up our noses, a mild sense of panic at what lurks below, and exhaustion setting in. Yet now is not the time to …
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Before, During, and After Landing my First Job “Out of College”
I was three semesters out from graduating with my bachelor’s degree in strategic organizational communications when I decided to start applying for “big kid” jobs. I thought it would be great to get some practice interviews before I graduate and possibly have a job lined up after graduation. So, I hopped on Indeed and started …
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How to Build a Crisis & Business Continuity Exercise Strategy
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. …
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