PandemicBuzz

PandemicBuzz

By Devin Sirmenis, Managing Director Corporate Resilience, Witt O'Brien'sBusinessManagement
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PandemicBuzz episodes

  • PandemicBuzz - 'the Honeywell Sessions' w/Marti Skold-Jordan, Senior Manager Global Community Relations

    Please join us for the fourth installment of ‘the Honeywell Sessions’ on PandemicBuzz. Marti Skold-Jordan, Senior Manager Global Community Relations; and Guy Gryspeerdt, VP and Global Head of Business Resilience, join host Devin Sirmenis to share Honeywell’s approach to extending resilience past the ‘corporation’ and in to the ‘community’ in which the company operates and resides. Marti and Guy share stories of relief programs and community relations efforts that demonstrate the tremendous amount of investment – of time, thought, consideration and passion – that make them impactful.

    25 min
  • PandemicBuzz - 'the Honeywell Sessions' w/Mike Polich, Vice President Integrated Supply Chain Global Logistics

    ‘the Honeywell Sessions’ take a turn to look at supply chain’s role and involvement in corporate resilience. Please join us for Season 3, Episode 3 of PandemicBuzz. Mike Polich, Vice President Integrated Supply Chain Global Logistics; and Guy Gryspeerdt, VP and Global Head of Business Resilience, join host Devin Sirmenis to share their thinking on approaches to centralization of supply chain processes; further integrating operations, supplier partners and the sourcing team; and how 90% of the work for digital solutions comes in building the master data at the elemental level. 

    16 min
  • PandemicBuzz - 'the Honeywell Sessions' w/Guy Gryspeerdt, VP, Global Head of Business Resilience

    Season 3 of PandemicBuzz starts with ‘the Honeywell Sessions.’ Please join us for Episode 1 where Guy Gryspeerdt, VP and Global Head of Business Resilience, joins host Devin Sirmenis for a wide-ranging discussion on building an effective, global resilience program. This conversation takes place as the world moves into a period of the pandemic where glimpses of the finish line are coming into view on the distant horizon, in a grueling 12-month+ race now being run between ‘vaccination’ and ‘virus mutation’. 

    34 min
  • PandemicBuzz: Special Edition - 9th Annual Event Impact Management Study

    S2 | E7  Please join us on this ‘special edition’ of PandemicBuzz with BC Management’s Managing Director of Talent Management & Program Analytics Cheyene Marling. Cheyene joins host Devin Sirmenis to talk about the launch of the 9th Annual Event Impact Management Study. New this year is the collaboration between BC Management and Witt O’Brien’s; an expansion of the question set across resilience disciplines (Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications, etc.); and, a more granular dive into program maturity driven by the inquisitive minds of seasoned practitioners. Information is provided on how to participate in the survey and gain access to the valuable data and insights it will provide.

    8 min
  • PandemicBuzz with MIT's Senior Lecturer Dr. Steve Goldman

    S2 | E4 Please join us on this episode of PandemicBuzz with MIT’s Senior Lecturer Dr. Steve Goldman. Steve joins host Devin Sirmenis for a wide-ranging discussion on leadership, crisis management and business continuity in our Covid19 world. Our distinguished guest even gives our host an off-the-cuff ‘pop-quiz’.  

    20 min
  • PandemicBuzz with Baker Hughes' Director Global Security, Crisis Management, Business Continuity Josh Walker

    S2 | E3 Please join us on this episode of PandemicBuzz with Baker Hughes. We are talking to Josh Walker, Director of Global Security, Crisis Management and Business Continuity. Josh talks about how his resilience programs are set up to serve 68,000 employees, working across 120+ countries; how consistency is created at the site-, country-, regional- and global-levels to promote “autonomy of the parts but unity of the action of the whole”; overcoming the challenges of communicating to employees and customers in dozens of languages; and, the lessons he will impart to the next generation of resilience practitioners and how they should “plan to be surprised.” 

    19 min
  • PandemicBuzz with Fusion's SVP and Co-Founder Bob Sibik

    S2 | E2 Please join us on this episode of PandemicBuzz with Fusion Risk Management. As Fusion turns 14, we are talking to Bob Sibik, Senior Vice President and Co-Founder. Bob talks about site readiness, the challenges true capacity planning presents, how a new movement called de-densification will thrive in order to instill confidence in employees in safe workplaces, how the future is about delivering the ‘outcome’ to your clients - and not about ‘recovering the process’, the trend towards consequence-oriented plans versus scenario-based plans, and how the pandemic is serving as an age of leadership enlightenment where the practices of providing inspiration and support to the human spirit are being recast.

    24 min

About PandemicBuzz

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PandemicBuzz is a snapshot-in-time interview series, where crisis management, business continuity and crisis communications experts talk about their current pandemic efforts, state of mind, and…