The Resiliency Initiative Presents at the 2024 National Hurricane Conference.

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Written By Andrea E. Davis

TRI's CEO, Andrea Davis, and Director of Preparedness, Faith Newton, presented on supply chain resiliency. Andrea and Faith shared lessons learned from their tenures with Disney and Walmart. They provided risk assessment tools that attendees could tailor to their organization and gave tips on engaging third-party vendors in their organization’s resiliency planning. They concluded the session with an engaging tabletop exercise where participants played different sectors responding to a national fuel shortage.

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TRI specializes in designing bespoke Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) aligned workshops, table-top, functional and full-scale exercises to test your organization’s crisis and continuity plans. We will create capabilities-driven scenarios supporting your organization’s SMART objectives and testing your employees’ and leadership’s knowledge of your organization’s incident response protocol.

Andrea E. Davis

As the Founder, President and CEO of The Resiliency Initiative, a certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), I empower small businesses and communities to become self-reliant through crisis and risk mitigation planning. I have over 20 years of experience in emergency management, business continuity, and public health, working for public, private, and non-profit sectors across various industries and geographies.

My core competencies include strategic policy development, program management, stakeholder engagement, and media relations. I have led global, enterprise-wide crisis management departments for multi-national, Fortune 500 companies, such as The Walt Disney Company and Walmart, overseeing large-scale responses to natural disasters, pandemics, cyberattacks, and social unrest. I have also served as the External Affairs Director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Louisiana Recovery Office for Hurricane Katrina, managing a recovery portfolio of over $25 billion.

My passion is volunteer service, which led to my selection as the Inaugural Emergency Manager of the Year in 2018 by the International Association of Emergency Managers and my induction into the Women’s Emergency Management Hall of Fame in 2013. Currently, I am Board Chair for the California Resiliency Alliance and the Northwest Arkansas American Red Cross. Additionally, I am an advisory board member for the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management (I-DIEM) and the Dr. Lucy Jones Foundation.

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