ACP Webinar Recordings

2025

2025

2024

2024

Know the Risks: 3 Tips for Strengthening Your Threat Intelligence

Do you have the tools necessary to get ahead of a threat and lessen its impact on your business? As the frequency and intensity of disruption impacting businesses grows, your team's threat intelligence capabilities need to be sure-fire. To successfully mitigate risks to your business, simply knowing your threats isn't enough—it's about having the foresight to stay ahead. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear 3 actionable strategies to ensure you never caught off guard by a crisis again.

Witt O'Brien's Presents: "Crisis Management in Focus: Top Findings from the Latest Report."

In today's rapidly evolving risk landscape, crisis management is more critical than ever. This presentation will dive into these insights, offering actionable recommendations to fortify crisis management efforts.

ACP Early Careerist SIG Presents: Dave Hunt CPP, FBCI "Building an Effective Table Top Exercise"

Dave will share his experience in designing, conducting and facilitating effective tabletop exercises. He will share his 38 years of experience and lessons learned from designing and conducting hundreds of discussion-based exercises to engage your stakeholders. The webinar will include recommendations for formatting after action reports and improvement matrices.

Tackling Wicked Problems: Building Response Capability in a World of Unknowns

In today’s complex, interconnected world, organizations face an increasing number of "wicked problems" — issues that are difficult to define, have no clear solution, and evolve unpredictably. Whether it’s climate change, AI-driven cyber threats, or geopolitical tensions, leaders must grapple with both the "known unknowns" and the "unknown unknowns" that constantly challenge their strategic decisions.

Join us as we dive into the strategies and tools that can help organizations strengthen their response capabilities, ensuring they are ready for whatever comes next — whether they can see it coming or not.

Building Resilience: Demonstrating Value and Gaining Stakeholder Alignment

The path to resilience is not linear. Often building a program can be cumbersome and slow, with significant setbacks along the way – whether it is a crisis, a change to funding, or a lack of cultural buy-in. To build a program that truly provides value to your organization, you must not only understand your business but also report back with the right insights, at the right time.

The role of a Business Recovery Professional is complex and demanding. Being knowledgeable in so many areas of expertise require a myriad of skills. And having to perform them under pressure is the icing on the cake.

In this workshop, we’ll focus specifically on those skills which will enable you to be more situationally aware and emotionally prepared to meet the challenges of your rigorous profession.

In the recent years digital services have evolved and expanded throughout the globe and across industries. From utilizing cloud services to a remote workforce to IoT devices, you either provide digital services or depend on them.

An airtight testing and exercising program is critical in ensuring your teams are prepared to face any crisis that might come their way, and it's a continuous work in progress. Building a successful program means maintaining momentum, adapting to new challenges, and regularly testing your organization's response capabilities.

Surviving an Active Shooter

This training is directed toward all adult citizens. The purpose is to provide citizens with the mental and emotional tools with which to improve their chances of surviving an active shooter event. It encourages students to use the powers of visualization to preprogram their minds with a logical predetermined response. To date this training has been presented to over 91,000 citizens. Five survivors with this knowledge have been identified to date.

Best Practices for Ensuring Preparedness: Testing and Exercising Business Continuity Plans with Fusion Risk management's Sean McLaughlin

We all know that business continuity plans are critical for preparedness, but how effective are they if you are not testing and exercising them properly? Without a thorough understanding of the core pillars of a testing and exercising program, teams will be left reactive and caught off-guard. Testing and exercising business continuity plans plays a crucial role in assessing an organization’s readiness to navigate a crisis, no matter what happens.

Are You and Your Company Ready for What Happens Next? with Regina Phelps 

As crisis management and resilience professionals, we face a constant barrage of potential crises. To meet these challenges head-on, we need to be prepared. What do we need to have in place right now to ensure we can handle any situation? How can we continue to add value to our organizations every day? These are the questions we will address in this webinar. Join us to equip yourself and your team with the tools and knowledge to meet the moment.

Preparing your Business for Summer Storm Resilience with Agility Recovery's Mark Norton

Each summer, severe storms and power outages are the leading cause of business interruptions. Attend this webinar to hear what meteorologists and weather experts predict for each region over the coming months, as well as actionable steps you can take today to protect your operations from interruptions caused by extreme heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and more. Stay through to the end of the webinar for live Q&A with a certified recovery professional who has helped facilitate hundreds of successful recoveries across North America.

The 2024 Atlantic Basin Seasonal Hurricane Outlook with EarlyAlert's Brian Urbancic

This presentation will comprehensively explore various aspects related to tropical cyclones. Firstly, we'll delve into tropical cyclone climatology, discussing patterns, trends, and factors influencing their formation and behavior. Next, we'll examine the threats posed by these storms, ranging from strong winds to flooding. We'll then analyze the 2023 Hurricane Season, highlighting notable storms and impacts. Lastly, we'll provide an in-depth forecast for the 2024 Hurricane Season, discussing forecast elements and methodologies for long-range weather outlooks.

Just Published: 22nd Edition Compensation Report for Resiliency Professionals with Cheyene Marling

Hot off the press! The newest compensation report for resiliency professionals is published. Don’t miss this exclusive webinar as Cheyene highlights the top trends impacting your earning potential. Plus, pro tips for career resiliency and an interactive discussion on the current employment market.

 Tabletop into the Future with Agility Recovery's Mark Norton

Your organization’s resilience against interruptions like power loss, severe weather, cyberattacks, and other disasters is proven when you put your business continuity and recovery plans to the test. Join Agility Recovery’s Mark Norton as he highlights the key benefits of tabletop testing and provides real-life use cases and best practices for implementing tabletop testing exercises into your business continuity strategy. Mark will also provide recommendations for gaining buy-in from leadership, facilitation tips, and post-test action items to make the most out of your tabletop findings.

The Ultimate Business Continuity Program with Lisa Jones

A robust Business Continuity Program (BCP) serves as the cornerstone of organizational resilience, enabling businesses to mitigate risks, maintain operations, and safeguard their reputation. Yet some resilience professionals struggle with programs that have been relegated to a “check the box” compliance exercise.

This webinar explores the keys to establishing the “ultimate” BCP and common mistakes that can cause your program to go unnoticed.

"Crisis Communications – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!"  with Dr. Steve Goldman

The basis for Crisis Communications is rather simple:

[Information Source] -> [Transfer Medium] -> [Information Target]

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, as it turns out, plenty! In this dynamic session, Dr. Steve Goldman will begin with a brief introduction to the art and science of crisis communications, including why this topic is so important for Business Resiliency Managers. Then he will examine several crisis communications responses – good, bad, and ugly. He will describe the causes, consequences, and lessons learned from the responses. Some videos will be shown. Dr. Steve concludes with observations on improving your crisis communications efforts, so your organization does not become an ugly case study in the media and in his future presentations.

ACP Member All Hands Webinar - 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Road to Relevance

As the year comes to a close, it's time to reflect, celebrate, and strategize for the future.
Join ACP Chairman, Michael Gifford, alongside DRJ's Bob Arnold and Witt O'Brien's Cheyene Marling for "ACP Member All Hands Webinar - 2023 Year in Review and 2024 Road to Relevance"– where we'll explore the milestones, challenges, and impactful moments that defined our community in 2023.

2023

Early Alert's Winter 2023-2024 Forecast

Brian Urbancic graduated from Western Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science in meteorology and was commissioned into the Air Force as a lieutenant in 2015. His first assignment was at Scott AFB, IL, where he learned operational forecasting for 153 Department of Defense (DoD) sites across the United States. Later, he was selected as the Chief of the Weather Plans Division at the Air Force’s Tanker Airlift and Control Center (TACC). In 2018, Brian was selected to attend the Air Force Institute of Technology, attaining his Master of Science in Atmospheric Science. Following this assignment, Brian moved to Tucson, AZ, in the Spring of 2020, where he was a flight commander overseeing 24/7 weather operations and leading 50 Airmen. During this time, he was the Bagram Airfield Weather Flight Commander, supporting combat operations across Afghanistan and resource protection across the base. During the final two months of his deployment, he served as the NATO Chief Meteorological and Oceanography Officer. In this position, Brian routinely briefed weather impacts to top-level NATO commanders and supported NATO forces with planning weather associated with retrograde operations across the country.

Fusion Risk Management Presents: From Data to Action Leveraging Generative AI for Resilient Continuity Strategies

The dramatic adoption of artificial intelligence and the potential for transformation it will bring to organizations is one of the most significant paradigm shifts since the birth of the internet. How can you take advantage of this new technology to bolster your continuity programs? Join Fusion Risk Management’s Bogdana Sardak and Cate O’Malley as they explore how the power of Generative AI can be used to bolster and streamline your continuity program strategies, building faster and more automated response plans, and optimize recovery efforts to resume critical business operations faster than ever.

Using Artificial Intelligence as a Force Multiplier for your Resilience Program with Shane Mathew

In this session, Shane Mathew will quickly recap how AI models are created, how they are currently implemented, and how they are made available to non-business users. Shane will share insights on the latest AI trends and technologies that are shaping the business world today- including some the potential pitfalls- as he explains some of the types of tools that businesses have already begun to implement into their internal processes. Additionally, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the potential benefits of AI within their resilience programs. Shane will outline specific AI technologies that are now available, and that can help address some common resilience program processes.

A Current Analysis of the Power Grid in the US with Dr. Ed Goldberg

Dr. Ed Goldberg, is an expert on resilience, a published author and popular speaker on the topic. He spent 30 years working in the utilities industry as an IT Director beginning at the Northeast Utilities Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Connecticut and stayed through its many changes including establishing their BC Program in 2003 when it became Eversource and stayed until his retirement in 2020.
In addition, Dr. Goldberg has 20 years experience as a Faculty Member at Capella University teaching IT Management and has served as Committee Chair for dozens of successful Ph.D. candidates. He is currently the President of the Connecticut Infragard Chapter and Subject Matter Expert on the Cybersecurity Advisory Group.

A Proactive Approach to Resilience: 3 Steps to Stay Ahead of the Dynamic Risk Landscape with Onsolve's Ann Pickren

Join OnSolve Executive Vice President of Strategic Engagement Ann Pickren to hear more of the findings from the 2023 OnSolve Global Risk Impact Report and what it means heading into 2024.

During this live webinar attendees will learn:

• The three critically rising threats (in the U.S. and globally) according to OnSolve data
•  How business leaders we surveyed are approaching risk mitigation and crisis response
• 3 steps to help prioritize proactive crisis mitigation and ownership with leadership

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Continuity with John Liuzzi

This informative session will present the fundamental concepts, basic techniques, and best practices that have been adopted by the world’s leading organizations in order to sustain an effective Business Continuity program throughout their supply chains. This session will also examine the disciplines and key relationships that are essential to the architecture of a resilient supply chain. Finally, this session will feature practical suggestions and insights on how to drive the innovation that is needed to build a resilient supply chain and achieve world-class Business Continuity results.

Crisis Preparedness: Developing a Prevention and Response Plan with Agility Recovery

Accomplished business owners understand the importance of ensuring their companies' enduring triumph by navigating challenges head-on. Despite a business's secure location, unforeseen circumstances remain a potential hazard. Is your organization primed to tackle emergencies efficiently and recover quickly? Join us for our upcoming webinar where we will delve into strategies for effectively preparing for and managing disasters. This includes seamlessly incorporating risk assessment and business impact analysis (BIA) into your business continuity plan, testing and preparation for possible scenarios across all work sites, and tips to quickly restore mission-critical operations in the aftermath of a catastrophe.

The Resilience Wave What it Means for Business Continuity with Ashley Goosman

Ashley Goosman is an experienced professional with almost two decades of experience in both the public and private sectors. She founded the Disaster Empire blog & podcast, aimed at educating and engaging fellow practitioners.

In 2021, she co-founded Resilience Think Tank, an independent guidance and research provider for the risk and resilience industry. She has managed numerous high-profile crisis incidents, including pandemics, natural disasters, white powder incidents, network & power outages, and terrorist incidents.

The Best Tabletop Exercises in the World with James Green

Tabletop Exercises are a key component of a robust business continuity program. And for many resilience professionals, it is one of the few times that we meaningfully interact with executives and stakeholders.

This webinar will explore the key facets of a great exercise, common pitfalls to avoid, and help you conduct the best tabletop exercises in the world.

The Benefits of Chaos Testing with Michael Herrera

By applying a chaos testing framework, organizations can ensure they are better prepared to handle disruption at an unprecedented scale. Chaos testing is designed to stress test technology, people, and processes in a non-standard approach that requires organizations to face a myriad of unplanned events which stretch continuity plans and strategies to a new level of resiliency. This session will cover the key phases of chaos testing to improve information technology and business continuity resiliency across your organization.

ROI of Business Continuity: Gaining Buy-In with Agility's Tim Mathew

Business continuity professionals are often asked what the return on investment – or ROI – of business continuity really is. Is it worth the investment, both time and money? Learn about testing strategies that will help gain organizational buy-in and build your second half-of-the-year budget, or next year's budget.

If you have no business continuity plan in place when a disruptive incident occurs, but your biggest competitor responds to the incident effectively using their own business continuity plan, how will that impact your bottom line and customer base?

Defeating the Four Horsemen of the Mandated Return to Office: Employee Resistance, Attrition, Quiet Quitting and Loss of DEI with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

In this engaging, interactive, and entertaining presentation, you will dramatically improve your ability to defeat the four biggest problems associated with the mandated return to office: employee resistance, attrition, quiet quitting, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

2023 Hurricane Forecast with Early Alert

Early Alert’s Chief Meteorologist is a professional with more than 40 years of comprehensive experience in meteorology and oceanography, physical and life sciences, weather management and operations, emergency management, research, education and technical training. He retired from the U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command in 2010 as a naval officer following a distinguished 30-year military career. During his tenure he served in a variety of positions of increased responsibility and complexity throughout the world both ashore and afloat.

2023 BCM Compensation Assessment - The Results Are In! with Cheyene Marling

Responding and Recovering from an Active Violence Incident  with Jason Russell

The impacts of an active violence incident can have extreme short term and long term impacts on any organization. Jason Russell is a nationally recognized expert on response and recovering from an active violence event. Jason will discuss actions that can be taken both before and after an event to prevent and recover from these tragic incidents.

Evolutionary Framework to Empower Global Business Resilience with Brandon Thomas

 The presentation by Brandon Thomas will highlight lessons learned from global incident management responses, crisis management team deployments, and the most recent global pandemic that has changed the necessity for how business continuity can/should be the core of business resilience efforts for the future.  

Understanding Business Continuity on a Systemic Level: ISO 22301 (Recorded February 15, 2023)

A panel of experts discuss their journeys to ISO 2023 certification. Presenters: Fiona Raymond-Cox, Raymond-Cox Consulting; Gary Hull, Independent Association of Accredited Registrars; Kevin Cunningham, Equinix.