Your Company’s Key to Survival: Resiliency Academy-Trained Employees
For more than 10 years in the US federal government, I was part of several large-scale emergency responses and planning efforts at the executive level. I engaged with top-level government executives and foreign dignitaries. In 2012, I transitioned to a private sector emergency management role. I was hired to create comprehensive crisis response plans and to train all employees—including the C-suite—on their roles during a crisis. I assumed the importance of life safety would be an easy sell. I was wrong.
I quickly learned that I didn’t speak the language of my new environment, and I no longer had the power I had in government to issue mandates and penalize non-compliance. For me to be successful in the private sector, I needed to rethink my approach and find a way to influence people without having many rules or regulations that I could lean on. I contacted other private sector colleagues to see what training resources they used—most used canned, government-centric courses. I reviewed the government courses, and I knew the moment I tried to force government speak using terms such as “incident commander,” “sitrep,” or “ops tempo,” I would lose my audience because I was not relating to their day-to-day business concerns of reducing risk, focusing on the bottom line and decreasing costs. So, my team and I developed our own in-house training program where we trained thousands of employees of all levels worldwide on how to prepare their business line for a disruption, identify and secure critical functions, and their role in a crisis.
Now that I am running my own small business focused on business continuity and crisis management, I am surprised there are still very limited employee training resources available to the private sector. Executives continuously ask me for recommendations on trainings to which they should send their employees to. Finding limited choices, I decided to create The Resiliency Academy.
The Resiliency Academy is a two-day workshop encompassing all-hazards preparedness specific to the private sector. Our team of experts will provide your employees with the building blocks to create a best-in-class crisis management department. Using my background and my team’s expertise with organizations such as Walmart, Disney, American Airlines and UCLA, this is truly a workshop built for the private sector by the private sector.
The Resiliency Academy covers 5 key subject areas:
Risk Assessment and Plan Development
Preparedness and Training Customization
Exercise Design
Crisis Communications
Leadership in a Crisis
Your team will walk away with plan outlines, training content, and exercise scenarios for your company. Additionally, they will have an enhanced capacity to effectively manage and navigate crisis situations while upholding your company’s core values and principles.
We deliver the Resiliency Academy in two formats:
Onsite at your business with tailored content. You can sign up to have our team of experts come to your location here. The cost is $500 per employee, with a minimum of 10 participants; or
A quarterly workshop with networking opportunities at a rotating regional location. Join us at our inaugural regional Resiliency Academy Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, on May 6-7 at the Aiden Hotel. Register here. The cost is $399 per attendee.
After finishing this course, you will be awarded a certificate of completion for 16 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), which can be applied towards DRII recertifications (CEAP number 6.0).
