Preparing for the Unexpected

Join me, as I talk with author, international speaker, and 9/22 survivor, Michael Hingson. It's an inspirational discussion about such topics as: 1. Surviving 9/11, 2. Staying calm and controlling fear, 3. Misperceptions about disabilities, 4. Operating with prejudice, 5. Guide dogs and Michael's new book "Live Like a Guide Dog", 6. Trust, 7. People and adversity, 8. Resilience, 9. The human-animal bond, 10. You own best teacher...and more! It's an inspiring talk and Michael shares some great insights that can benefit us all, in our personal and professional lives. Enjoy!

Michael Hingson

WHAT I DO: I write books. I do podcast interviews with really interesting people on my "Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I love doing keynote speeches and talks all over the world about my experience as a blind survivor of 9-11. I use my experiences to assist companies, organizations, and individuals in creating a more inclusive world. Also, I travel internationally speaking to and inspiring audiences with talks on Trust, Teamwork, Diversity and Change. As the Chief Vision Officer for AccessiBe, I also help people understand why it's important to have an online presence that is inclusive and ADA compliant. It's the right thing to do. I provide training on adaptive technology for the blind. HOW I DO IT. Your company or organization needs different lenses to see how you can be inclusive and practice diversity. My experience and how I show up in the world gives me a unique perspective in how you can effectively assist your people in growing in this area. I will gladly consult with your organization to help shape a healthy culture of inclusion and diversity. Our team at AccessiBe will also help you understand not only the risk you run in today's litigious culture by not having an ADA compliant website or online presence, but as one of the leaders in ADA compliance technology, we'll show you how to do it, and why it's simply the right thing to do.

Join me as I talk with speaker, author, and confidence builder, Anne Bonney as we talk about Burnout, and how it impacts us in our personal and professional lives. During our talk we touch on such subjects as: 1. Defining burnout, 2. The 5 factors of burnout, 3. Predictability, 4. Control, 5. Seeing progress, 6. Having an outlet, 7. Social support, 8. Self-efficacy, 9. Identifying stressors, 10. Emotional energy, 11. Boosting emotional energy, 12. Drawing boundaries, 13. Ignoring burnout and the ramifications…and more!! Anne's energy and enthusiasm is infectious, as she shares some wondering insights about burnout and how we can prevent it or deal with it if we are experiencing it. Don't miss what Anne has to share – you'll be better for it. Enjoy!

Change is here to stay. The only constant in business is that there will be more change, and if you're not dealing with it right now, stay tuned...it's comin'! As an authority on managing change with confidence and resilience, Speaker and Author Anne Bonney CSP (Certified Speaking Professional. masterfully imparts her knowledge through empowering keynotes and interactive live and virtual workshops to ignite and inspire your organization to be more emotionally intelligent and adaptive through transitions. She will fire-up your team's influence so they can productively lead and communicate courageously which directly correlates to their ability to manage change, immediately impacting your organization's profitability. Who doesn't want that??

This sassy little redhead shares business lessons from her crazy life experiences, which arms her with relatable and hilariously memorable stories from growing up overseas, running international marathons, animal training, morale building tours to the military in Iraq, volunteering at an elephant sanctuary and singing opera at a performing arts school and yes- there's more. Anne has worked with many companies including Under Armour, The New England Aquarium, Lockheed Martin, NASA, SHRM, Sysco, FBLA, the FDA and Social Security Administration, Ecolab, Shell Oil and Wells Fargo as well as many professional, entrepreneurial, and women's conferences.

Big Event? No problem- Anne has spoken to up to 2000 attendees. Small Event? Easy-Peasy!

Join me as I talk with longtime experienced Innovative Resilience & Business Continuity Leader, David Young, as we talk about Presenting Risks for Competitive Advantage, Metrics Driven Risk Assessments, and using Artificial Intelligence to help foster resilience. During our extensive chat we touch on: 1. The Kinds of risks for competitive advantage, 2. Presenting risks to executives and clients, 3. Moving beyond the usual risks, 4. A multi-disciplinary approach, 5. Risk considerations and meaningful metrics, 6. The 'crawl walk run', approach, 7. The Risk Council (I love this idea!), 8. Thresholds and categories, 9. How AI helps an organization, 10. Evaluating 3rd parties, 11. The 'scoring approach' and interpreting results, 12. The risks and benefits, 13. Prompt writing…and more! David shares some great insights from his vast experience you don't want to miss. Enjoy!

David Young

Innovative Resilience & Business Continuity Leader with over 24 years of experience leading large corporate emergency preparedness, response, and recovery operations. Expert in business resilience continuity planning, crisis management, and risk assessment. Proven ability to leverage advanced technologies and train cross-functional teams across geographically dispersed business units. Adept at developing and implementing comprehensive continuity plans that ensure organizational stability and compliance with regulatory standards. If you want someone who can create a internationally recognized world-class industry-leading Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program, you've found me.

Join me as I talk with speaker, author, and confidence builder, Anne Bonney as we talk about Confident Resilience, and how we can build ourselves up to help us in our personal and professional lives. During our talk we touch on such subjects as: 1. Defining Resilience as Mental Toughness (or Confident Resilience), 2. Physiology, 3. Emption energy and awareness, 4. Our 'outlets', 5. Confidence & hindrances, 6. Characteristics of confident resilience, 7. Fear, 8. Social pressures, 9. Burnout, 10. Stressors, 11. Tips to help us move forward…and so much more! Anne's energy and enthusiasm is infectious, as she shares some wondering insights in how we can elevate ourselves – both personally and professionally and building our level of confident resilience. Don't miss what Anne has to share – you'll be better for it. Enjoy!

Change is here to stay. The only constant in business is that there will be more change, and if you're not dealing with it right now, stay tuned...it's comin'! As an authority on managing change with confidence and resilience, Speaker and Author Anne Bonney CSP (Certified Speaking Professional. masterfully imparts her knowledge through empowering keynotes and interactive live and virtual workshops to ignite and inspire your organization to be more emotionally intelligent and adaptive through transitions. She will fire-up your team's influence so they can productively lead and communicate courageously which directly correlates to their ability to manage change, immediately impacting your organization's profitability. Who doesn't want that??

This sassy little redhead shares business lessons from her crazy life experiences, which arms her with relatable and hilariously memorable stories from growing up overseas, running international marathons, animal training, morale building tours to the military in Iraq, volunteering at an elephant sanctuary and singing opera at a performing arts school and yes- there's more. Anne has worked with many companies including Under Armour, The New England Aquarium, Lockheed Martin, NASA, SHRM, Sysco, FBLA, the FDA and Social Security Administration, Ecolab, Shell Oil and Wells Fargo as well as many professional, entrepreneurial, and women's conferences.

Big Event? No problem- Anne has spoken to up to 2000 attendees. Small Event? Easy-Peasy!

All organization's strive to be more resilient as they move forward. They want resilient processes and operations but without resilient leaders and resilient employees, an organization will never get there.

I talk with noted speaker, coach, instructor and consultant, Tammie Horton on how to create resilience within your teams.

Tammie will describe the characteristics that can make a person more resilient, as well as describing how the brain functions in relation to resilient states of mind.

COVID has put allot of stress on individuals, teams, and organizations, putting a strain on the well-being of many. Mental health and one's own well-being is key to creating a resilient mindset, workplace, and team.

Full of insightful information, this chat with Tammie is not to be missed if you want your teams and team members to be more resilient.

I'm joined by longtime experienced Business Continuity, Analyst, Emergency Management, and IT professional, Carol Paasch. We talk about some of the key components that help create a successful Resilience Program.

During our chat we touch on:

1. Executive sponsorship,

2. Steering Committees,

3. Role & Responsibilities...that work!,

4. Stopping the 'scenario planning',

5. Business Impact Assessments (for BU and IT),

6. The Risk Assessment,

7. Getting to know the Risk team,

8, Understanding Vendor Management,

9. System of Truth,

10. Testing & Exercising,

11. The thud factor,

12. Understanding what's in it for them,

13. Software is a tool, not the answer...and much more.

Carol's extensive hand's on experience is something you don't want to miss if you want to make you resilience program a success. It's logical and ground-roots common sense insight you don't want to miss. Enjoy!

Join me as I talk with recognized Business Continuity & Resilience industry thought leader, Shane Mathew. We talk about the nuances of decision-making during a crisis, but also how we prepare our Crisis Team members and decision-makers before a crisis occurs. 1. The importance of good decision-making, 2. How the Chernobyl disaster triggered the conversation of decision-making, 3. Fear and decisions, 4. The 'Netflix Dilemma' (you gotta hear this), 5. Phases of Decision Making, 6. Social Media impacts to decision-making, 7. Knowing stakeholders, 8. Know your values, 9. How stress impacts decisions, 10. How to make better decisions, 11. The 'Point Guard', 12. Frameworks, 13. Decision-making tools, 14. Practice!...and much more. Shane takes a step back from not just talking about decision-making during a crisis, but how we can prepare ourselves to make decisions before a crisis ever occurs. That's something that doesn't get talked about enough. Share shares some great insights you don't want to miss. Enjoy!

Shane Mathew:

I coach teams charged with helping businesses to prepare to continue on in crisis or business disruption by developing a best-practices-aligned resilience program.

In my extensive career, I've started and matured multiple programs that were able to successfully reduce the impacts of crises. My goal is to lower the cost and complexity of programs through developing a strategic plan and stakeholder engagement that ultimately supports business objectives. I'm also very media friendly, and try to find ways to weave marketing and brand value best practices into my efforts.

Ask me how and I will be glad to help!

Specialties: Sales, Marketing, Project Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications, Environmental Health & Safety, Mass Notification Systems, Program Management, Leadership, Data Breach Response Planning, Vendor Risk Management

Join me as I talk with the founder and principal of Raymond-Cox Consulting, Fiona Raymond-Cox, as we talk about Cyber table top exercises. We touch on: 1. The evolution of tabletop exercises and how things have changed over the years (and why!), 2. Tabletop exercising with the Crisis Management Team (CMT) and why it's important, 3. Functional exercises and how they take tabletops to the next level...and more! Don't miss the insights Fiona has to share, as it will certainly help your Operational Resilience / Business Continuity programs. Enjoy!

Join me as I talk with Trauma Informed Conflict Management Consultant, Treena Reilkoff. We have a very insightful discussion on three key areas that are impacting people and workplaces: 1. School violence, 2. Work related suicide (and an actual case from Australia where a business was found at fault for contributing to a suicide), 3. Psychological Health & Safety Environments (which ties everything together). Treena share some really good advice and guidance for people - both at the general employee level and at the management/leadership level - on what to look for an how to prevent incidents from occurring. It's an episode you don't want to miss if you want safer workplaces for all. Enjoy!

Join me, as I talk with long-time insurance control expert, Chris Snider. Insurance in the Resilience/BCM industry has been a topic I've wanted to cover for a long time and Chris does a great job of explaining how insurance really works, using understandable and relatable language.

All corporate leaders, business continuity and resilience professionals need to understand how insurance policies and providers work with you, rather than assuming how they work or believing that by having a policy in place you're protected.

During our chat, Chris touches on:

1. Myths of insurance,

2. Working through risk assessments,

3. Insurance Policies,

4. Asking 'What if...,

5. Insurance providers and risks,

6. Incorporating emergency risks,

7. Including insurance as a member of your BCM steering committee (and the benefits of doing that),

8. What organizations can do to keep premiums low,

9. Proactive vs reactive,

10. Bill S211 and the impact upon insurers and organizations,

11. Bill S211 and its relation to supply chain management...and more.

A very insightful discussion where Chris clarifies how insurance providers can actually help you BCM and resilience programs. Don't miss what Chris has to say. Enjoy!