Every mature business continuity program eventually hits the same wall. The plans are built, the exercises are running on schedule, the gaps you found last year are closed, and every
Beyond the Plan: Validating Operational Resilience Under Real-World Pressure
For decades, resilience programs have been built upon familiar and necessary foundations: conducting business impact analyses (BIAs), identifying critical dependencies, documenting recovery strategies, developing continuity plans, and establishing crisis management
Where Safety Programs Break Down, and What It Costs Operations
Each June, National Safety Month puts workplace injury prevention back in focus for leaders across industries. What the campaigns tend to surface, and what typically gets less attention afterward, is
Career Spotlight Interview: Nita Kohli
Tell us about yourself – your name, company, title, and responsibilities? Nita Kohli, risk and resilience executive, CEO and co-founder of Kohli Advisors, former global head of enterprise resilience at
Crisis Leadership in High-Pressure Environments
When a crisis hits, organizations rarely fail because of the crisis alone. They fail because leadership breaks under pressure. Most organizations prepare for operational disruptions, like system failures, supply chain
Ending the Cycle of Failure
Every major disaster produces two predictable outcomes. First, we mobilize enormous resources, money, people, and logistics under extreme pressure. Second, once the immediate crisis fades, we fail to learn systematically
We Gave Cyber Risk to the CISO and Walked Away
Institutions tend to believe persistent problems will, over time, settle into place. A risk emerges. It creates friction. Eventually responsibility is assigned, processes form around it, and the problem becomes
Assessing Business Continuity Resilience Posture
What Organizational Patterns Reveal Long Before a Disruption Organizations rarely fail during disruptions because they lack documented plans. More often, failure occurs because everyday decisions quietly shaped how the organization
Career Spotlight: Leah Fitzgerald
Tell us about yourself – your name, company, title, and responsibilities? My name is Leah Fitzgerald. I’m a business continuity analyst at Sherwin-Williams, based in Cleveland, Ohio. My role includes
Expanding the Narrative of Business Continuity History
Purpose in Work and the Value of Collective History “Sometimes it’s a bit of vocation, a calling, you know?” The off-hand remark of a 30-year business continuity veteran struck me