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SESSION HANDOUT ESO Tools - The Vision/Traction Organizer In this session, Shane Mathew shares some of the lessons he’s learned from his years of building business continuity programs in various industries, including in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and tech. The focus of the presentation is the concept of transforming your BCM program into a high functioning initiative, by approaching it as one would approach a successful business. Through this lens, attendees will learn some of the common pitfalls businesses and BCM programs face to their success, how to develop and market products that improve demand, and how to manage the whole effort through proven methodologies like the immensely effective Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) – a set of simple concepts and practical tools that have helped thousands of entrepreneurs around the world get what they want from their businesses. Additionally, he will share some practical steps on how to implement these concepts into your program- transforming it into one that has direction, executive buy-in, and stakeholder support.

SESSION HANDOUT - Wheel of Assessment Learn practical tools to reverse the condition of burnout and depletion — which is far too common among professional women — while addressing the root cause of unhealthy boundaries. We will look at the impact of long-term crisis exposure and how it affects the nervous system. Participants will walk away with simple, actionable techniques in this session.

Learn practical tools to reverse the condition of burnout and depletion — which is far too common among professional women — while addressing the root cause of unhealthy boundaries. We will look at the impact of long-term crisis exposure and how it affects the nervous system. Participants will walk away with simple, actionable techniques in this session.

Join the members of DRI Foundation’s Women in Business Continuity Management Executive Committee for a panel discussion focused on planting the seeds for a growth mindset to keep our plans, our organizations, and – most importantly – ourselves resilient. As our industry evolves, we’ll discuss how we, as women, can expand our capabilities, anticipate future needs, and increasingly adopt best practices from BIAs to incident management to testing – while staying authentic, establishing boundaries, and developing critical skills for success.

Will members of a board of directors like their duty of care served with a side of negligence lawsuits from not investing in preparedness? Are law firms the ones that should be offering business continuity as part of a suite of services on top of regulatory compliance? Will force majeure become a force no more when protecting businesses? The “new normal” is impacting more than we realize. This session will shed some light on the emergence of business continuity and preparedness combining with the legal world.

In this session, Shane Mathew shares some of the lessons he’s learned from his years of building business continuity programs in various industries, including in government, healthcare, manufacturing, and tech. The focus of the presentation is the concept of transforming your BCM program into a high functioning initiative, by approaching it as one would approach a successful business. Through this lens, attendees will learn some of the common pitfalls businesses and BCM programs face to their success, how to develop and market products that improve demand, and how to manage the whole effort through proven methodologies like the immensely effective Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) – a set of simple concepts and practical tools that have helped thousands of entrepreneurs around the world get what they want from their businesses. Additionally, he will share some practical steps on how to implement these concepts into your program- transforming it into one that has direction, executive buy-in, and stakeholder support.

Attend this can’t miss session to hear from a C-Level executive who truly understands resilience, as DRI Board Director Ray Seid sits down with Uniper CIO Damian Bunyan. About Uniper Düsseldorf-based Uniper is an international energy company with activities in more than 40 countries. With around 7,000 employees, it makes an important contribution to security of supply in Europe. Uniper’s core businesses are power generation in Europe, global energy trading, and a broad gas portfolio. Uniper procures gas – including liquefied natural gas (LNG) – and other energy sources on global markets. The company owns and operates gas storage facilities with a capacity of more than 7 billion cubic meters. Uniper plans for its 22.5 GW of installed power-generating capacity in Europe to be carbon-neutral by 2035. The company already ranks among Europe’s largest operators of hydroelectric plants and intends to further expand solar and wind energy, which are essential for a more sustainable and autonomous future. Uniper is a reliable partner for communities, municipal utilities, and industrial enterprises for planning and implementing innovative, lower-carbon solutions on their decarbonization journey. Uniper is a hydrogen pioneer, is active worldwide along the entire hydrogen value chain, and is conducting projects to make hydrogen a mainstay of the energy supply.

This session will present proven practices for managing vendor disruptions. Applying “the best defense is a good offense” approach (the strategic offensive principle of conflict), rings true for planning and mitigating the risk of supply chain disruptions. The presenter will explore general planning practices to manage vendor risk and continuity of operations in the procurement process. Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of a due-diligence approach to engaging and including essential vendors in exercises to identify gaps and surgical actions needed to respond quickly to minimize the impact when a vendor cannot deliver its product and service to your organization which your organization relies upon.

The world of business is now interdependent more than in any other time in history. In addition to the expansion of multi-national companies, local and regional organizations of all sizes and industry sectors maintain cross-border relationships and global supply chain dependencies (human capital, raw materials, and data) that increase operational risk. Business Resiliency Professionals should have a clear understanding of these direct and indirect interdependencies, monitor these threats, and plan for anticipated impacts to their operations. Armed conflicts by their very nature are volatile, multi-regional, and non-linear; security conditions can deteriorate, and aggression escalate without warning. The unique impacts of each conflict must be evaluated and considered. While some will experience the direct impacts of an armed conflict because it is their country/entity involved, exponentially more will experience the indirect impacts. For example, recent conflicts have caused high fuel prices world-wide even for countries not directly involved or directly dependent on the warring parties. This is a key consideration for why business resiliency professionals should include this type of planning in their resiliency planning approach – their businesses are not insulated just because their country is not at war. The panel will share recommendations for ACM pre-conflict planning, crisis response and ongoing crisis management including: Geopolitical Threat and Risk Analysis Critical Staff Resiliency Strategies Scenario Based Exercises Crisis Management and Response Management and Employee Training and Awareness, and Internal and External Collaboration and Communication

Business continuity professionals are called upon to be as versatile as they are prepared to handle any and all potential disruptions. Versatility is augmented by experience. In the session, an MBCP and veteran of three industries shares lessons learned and best practices for logistics, healthcare, and IT. Discussion will include privacy, supply chain, SLAs, and more. Attend this presentation to ensure that your program will meet both requirements and expectations.

With over 20 years’ experience building, developing, and leading program governance frameworks and strategies for three major companies, Walmart’s Robyn Kimbro joins us to share the key elements for experienced resilience practitioners addressing ongoing program maturity and building resilience. So, you have an established, mature program – now what? The answer is a lot, and that includes answering questions like these: Are your program requirements not stringent enough, just right, or really complicated and time-consuming to meet? If you’re a global company – is your program globally relevant, and does it meet regulations or requirements for other countries? How strong and far-reaching are your partnerships? How do you benchmark with other companies? How do you market your program? What programmatic stats are you collecting through your enterprise tool? Are executives interested in those metrics, and what do these statistics drive your leadership to do?

Cyber resilience and business continuity — both are important and work best when they work together! That’s not easy to accomplish, but not to worry. Attend this mind-blowing session to learn how to establish cohesion between the two at an entity level without sacrificing your sanity. We will tackle typical organizational barriers impacting resilience and what to do about them. Where does business continuity sit in the organization and why does that matter? How do you get the CISO and BCO on the same page? How do you link plans and processes? What about including BC in cyber incident response planning? And how do you bring it all together? You’ll leave this session energized, informed, and with a BC and cyber resilience checklist to help you obtain and maintain cohesion — and calm.

When we boil it all down, people are a business' single most critical asset. Of course, we plan to have backups for key personnel, but what happens when our people are also affected by the same disaster and repercussions that impact our business? This presentation is intended to provide insight into why it's in a business' best interest to encourage people to have their own disaster preparedness plans and what their plans need to include. Disasters impacting your personal life are no joke and neither are family and household preparations. This session will refresh you on what we planners sometimes forget about: why people are so critical and what’s involved with personal disaster preparedness.

We are entering the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Omicron variant has caused an extremely high case rate that has disrupted many businesses’ operations. What do business continuity professionals need to do now? When and how can a safe return to the workplace resume? There have been many lessons learned from the pandemic, but what measures should be retained to improve worker safety and business continuity? This session, provided by a 30+ year CDC expert, covers all of these topics and more. There are CRITICAL steps that every business needs to take NOW to protect the workforce and business continuity going forward.

In this session, we will explore the supply chain landscape and boundaries in today’s world. How do these issues affect our risk and impacts, and most importantly how do we prepare, protect and recover? The presenter also will share the best options to test supply chain continuity plans and the benefits of this approach.

Understanding third party vendor risk is essential for organizational resiliency. This session will address best practices for assessing vendor risk and resiliency. We will review how to evaluate residual risks and potential impacts to incorporate vendor risk into a comprehensive resiliency program. We will also review using data analytics to better quantify and rate residual risk.

Working from home during a crisis can be challenging. Here are a few pointers to help you set yourself – and your new workspace – up for success.

Larry Chase will speak to his unique and proven approach to smashing through traditional barriers and earning a sustained executive buy-in. Larry will share logistics of key successes in gaining ground in program maturity and execution through proven and thoughtfully targeted training/awareness programs. Learn more about his winning strategic model which time-and-time-again results and focused on a ‘practice like we fight’ mindset. See what happens when you color outside the lines and ‘challenge everything’ so as to closely align a rapid program elevation agenda to a company’s most treasured values…and how to win with a top performing capability.

In recognizing the critical importance of effective communications within the resilience community, DRI created a committee to develop a new reference document that combines the most common business continuity and resilience terms and definitions into a single guide. Most terms were relatively straightforward in their definition, and others required more discussion and analysis by the committee. The analysis of one term, incident, became a long-term discussion, with no consensus reached. The Glossary Committee presents this white paper on defining incident to showcase the continuing effort for effective communications in our community.

Following on her smash hit Women in Business Continuity Management Ask Betsy webinar, Betsy Sayers is back with tips from the trenches. She promises that attendees will walk away with solid examples and templates that you can use – plus some more of those handy “Betsyisms” that are pretty much guaranteed to get you out of any tight spot. Always creative in her approach to continuity, Betsy will show how she uses the Professional Practices for status reporting and teach you all how to play pandemic poker!

During DRI2018’s WBCM panel discussion, nearly 50% of session attendees responded that the stereotype they were most concerned with was being labeled as “too aggressive,” particularly when disagreeing with others’ views. Please join us as we take that conversation further with Betsy Sayers, MBCP, ITIL, ICS – IT/DR. With more than 25 years of industry experience, including serving as a DRI Instructor, Betsy shares her views on the best tools to communicate clearly — and with objectivity – while maintaining a style that honors who you are and what you believe. Special thanks to our webinar sponsor OnSolve.

When Betsy Sayers is in a tough spot, she always knows exactly what to say. That’s because she’s awesome...and she has a few handy phrases written in the back of her notebook at all times. She’s generously shared those words of wisdom with you (see...awesome, right?). If you haven’t checked out the Women in Business Continuity Management Committee’s “Ask Betsy” webinar, you really should, right here at https://drii.org/webinars

Japan is a country that continues to suffer serious natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, and floods. In most cases, these are widespread incidents that impact a fairly large geographic region. In planning or such wide area disasters, the DR strategy may depend on the location where the incident occurred. Using real-lie case studies, this session will explain the unique approach the Japanese have to BC and DR.

Violence of any kind is a disrupting event; the more severe the violence, the greater the disruption. How to companies survive workplace violence and what are the best practices that take a company beyond survival to full recovery and back to business?

Larry Chase, DRI's 2015 Business Continuity Program Manager of the Year, will share his repeatable secret sauce and game-changing winning practices that have earned numerous international honors during his two decades of private sector successes. If you are looked to or expected to deliver the wow factor with your program by your executives, staff/team members, stakeholders and partners.

How do companies in a non-BCP-regulated environment attain alignment with ISO 22301? The presentation will discuss the Chevron Business Continuity Program, the link to its Operational Excellence Management System Process (MSP), and the benefits this creates in providing a sustainable program that aligns with BCM best practices and ISO 22301.

This document highlights the connections between the ISO22301 and the DRI Ten Professional Practices.