In Episode 193 of the podcast, Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the critical topic of mental health for crisis management professionals and tips to help manage your well-being. As crisis management professionals, we are the first responders of the corporate world. Stress, anxiety, and burnout are all occupational hazards of this high-stakes profession. …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #191: AI will change everything
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about artificial intelligence and business continuity. As a part of the episode, Bryan asks the OpenAI Foundation’s ChatGPT a few questions about business continuity and resilience and reads back its answers. Bryan also shares how Bryghtpath has been experimenting …
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3 Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Mistakes to Avoid
If you want to hit a home run within your organization with your business continuity program, then you need to prepare by conducting a proper business impact analysis and learning how to avoid costly BIA mistakes. When done right, the business impact analysis (BIA) process is straightforward, concise, and adds value to your organization on …
Help! My Business Continuity Program is Stuck!
I’m not known for giving advice with an extra helping of sugar- just ask my family. So when clients come to us for help because their business continuity program is stuck, my answer is usually one of three things. Your business continuity program is misaligned with your business’s objectives Business continuity is just one of …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #183: Resilience should be at the top of your board’s agenda
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses why resilience should be at the top of your board’s agenda and how resilience professionals can best prepare their board for what’s next.
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #181: Don’t Get Caught Up In Semantics
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses whether business continuity is a component of crisis management or vice versa. More importantly, does it matter? Links from the episode: What is Resilience?
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #180: Setting up the New Year
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser talks about setting up the new year for success with your resilience program. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
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Business Continuity Planning in Healthcare
To quote Warren Buffett, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” It’s a truth the people at CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., learned in the fall of 2022. A ransomware attack forced systems offline, including electronic health records, at facilities in …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #178: Inside an Earnings Release
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser dives into General Mills’ Q2 2023 earnings report to showcase why it’s essential to align your resilience strategies for business continuity, crisis management, and crisis communications with your organization’s business objectives. Topics discussed include knowing how to read an earnings statement, …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #174: Resetting your Business Continuity Program for 2023
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Bray Wheeler, Senior Consultant, discuss how to reset your business continuity program for the challenges of 2023. Topics discussed include our take on the challenges of 2023, expense reductions, the economy, the positioning of your program, alignment against your organization’s strategic objectives, …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #173: Everyone is Tired
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Bray Wheeler, Senior Consultant, discuss the topic of crisis fatigue, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crisis management & business continuity teams, and how one can overcome crisis fatigue. Topics discussed include crisis fatigue, what the “new normal” …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #172: Bryghtpath Exercise Maturity Model
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler discuss the brand new Bryghtpath Exercise Maturity Model. Topics discussed include evaluating your exercise strategy, maturity models, and how the Bryghtpath team thinks about exercise strategies as a series of building blocks that grow over …
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What Is Business Continuity? A Plain-English Guide for New Program Owners
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 …
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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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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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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #158: Without trust your program is dead in the water
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 …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #157: Exercise in a Box
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 …
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How to Choose the Best Business Continuity Software
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 …
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What (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong About the Business Continuity Lifecycle
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 …
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Managing Uncertainty – Episode #154: Finding Success with a Business Continuity Consultant
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. …
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