Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
Toddlers are always getting themselves into uncertain situations that may cause them to fall, but they are malleable enough to come out mostly unscathed. Your organization should be the same way. In this episode, Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler discuss how resilience allows you to embrace uncertainty. Additional Resources …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast #190: Resilience Allows You to Embrace UncertaintyRead More
Have you brought your crisis management team together since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank? You may think that the collapse doesn’t affect you, but take a moment to consider who and what you depend on. You may find that your answer changes or you might feel uncertain about the situation. In this episode, Principal …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast #189: Financial RoilingsRead More
As a leader, have you ever wondered what the best way to gain credibility and maintain it is? In this episode of the podcast, Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses just that by going into more detail about how you, as a leader, can be candid and empathetically direct.
Managing Uncertainty Podcast #188: Sooner or Later You Have to Be DirectRead More
As Bryghtpath has grown, we’ve invested time documenting certain aspects of our culture. Last year, we did an episode focused on our Core Values and their use in our hiring and performance review process. One of the areas we’ve focused on has been documenting how we work. We believe we’ve created something unique at Bryghtpath – …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast #187: How We Work at BryghtpathRead More
Recently when reading a recap from McKinsey, the phrase “your clock speed has to increase to match the environment” leapt out from the page. In Episode #186 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses how this approach should be applied to your organization’s resilience program – ensuring strategic alignment on …
Whether you think of it as remote work, distributed work, hybrid work, or some other term, how we manage and lead teams is changing. In Episode #185 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser shares his thoughts on leading remote teams and “managing to outcomes” instead of “butts in seats.” …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast #185: Remote Work & Managing to OutcomesRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser shares an example from the hit TV show Mad Men and how Don Draper has something to teach us all about resilience storytelling. Watch the scene from Mad Men
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #184: Don Draper and Resilience StorytellingRead More
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.
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the need for strategic alignment between your organization’s senior executives, your strategic objectives, and your resilience program.
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #182: Strategic AlignmentRead More
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?
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #181: Don’t Get Caught Up In SemanticsRead More
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
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #180: Setting up the New YearRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser shares the topics that your Board of Directors and Board Committees have been talking about concerning resilience – most likely without you. Additional Resources Check out our Free Courses on Business Continuity, Crisis Management, and Crisis Communications.
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, …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #178: Inside an Earnings ReleaseRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler, discuss strategy & innovation in resiliency and the need to be able to walk away from the sacred cows of how things have been done in the past. Topics discussed include strategy challenges, innovation, …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #177: First, burn your shipsRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses what year two of your crisis management program should entail. Topics discussed include misconceptions about year two, investing in your program and how to do it, and building a culture of resilience. Related Episodes and Articles Article: How to Successfully …
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, …
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” …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #173: Everyone is TiredRead More
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 …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #172: Bryghtpath Exercise Maturity ModelRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Bray Wheeler, Senior Consultant, roleplay a scenario in which they emphasize the importance of getting back to the root of a problem – repositioning the discussion back to strategy. Topics discussed include problem-solving, organizational strategy, and understanding the motivation …
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 …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #170 – Bryghtpath’s Long Term Recovery FrameworkRead More
In Episode #169 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler, discuss lessons learned from eight years of working with clients. Topics discussed included leveraging your consulting partner to accomplish your strategic objectives, crisis communications & reputation management, relationships within your organization, underutilizing expertise, crisis …
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler, discuss mistakes companies make with their crisis management programs. Topics discussed include crisis leadership failures, crisis management teams, under-responding in a crisis, crisis processes, and taking care of your team.
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Bray Wheeler discuss building a new business continuity or crisis management plan and who that plan may affect before you start building. Topics discussed include understanding key players and questions to ask before creating a process. Related …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #167: Stakeholder MappingRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Bray Wheeler, Senior Consultant, discuss Bryghtpath’s definition of a crisis. Topics discussed include crisis definitions, crisis versus incidents, critical disruptions, and organizational communication. Related Articles and Episodes Article: Beyond ROI: The Value of Effective Crisis Management Article: How to set up …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #166: Our Definition of a CrisisRead More
