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Executive Sponsorship Is Critical to Emergency and Crisis Management Programs
I’ve built a career supporting companies in developing crisis and emergency management programs both in the United States and internationally. In twenty years, I’ve seen some things. One thing Iâ€...
Is ChatGPT Putting Your Traveling Employees at Risk?
On LinkedIn, Stuart McDonald, the founder of Travelfish.com, shared an article from the Verge entitled, “A Bride, a Groom, a Honeymoon, and ChatGPT. The article begins with “As the internet took o...
Business Continuity — Operational Resilience
There has been a slow, yet enduring shift across society and culture that focuses on people, their wellbeing, and their ability to thrive. Inevitably, this has driven the vision and strategy of the mo...
Welcome to the Partners of NorthPoint International!
Risk Resiliency, LLC, an organizational resilience advisory firm in crisis management, emergency management, and workplace violence prevention in the tech, retail, and nonprofit public sectors, is ple...
The Ten Pillars of Hospitality Security
Organizing your resilience efforts around ten pillars and then assessing your efforts systematically will make sure your programs are achieving world-class results. Pillar 1: Threat and Intelligence...
Build a SIRT Program
You’re Only As Good As Your Least Trained People Which is why how your distributed sites handle incidents matters for your overall organizational resilience. My preferred method of addressing an...
Why Plans Fail
Blog, Crisis Management, Leadership, Lessons Learned, Plan Development and Management, Practitioner Knowledge
Most organizations with robust crisis, emergency, or business continuity plans expect that when the “thing” happens they’ve got it covered. But anyone who has ever had to operational...
Hotels and Violent Protest – An Intelligence-led Approach
In the aftermath of the dramatic events that unfolded in Washington DC on January 6th, images emerged of unmasked, flag-waving guests in the public spaces in a hotel from a major chain. The hotel face...
The Power of Foresight in Crisis Management
Hindsight Isn’t All That If anything, the current crisis has taught us that hindsight is not as great as it is made out to be. However, by now it should be evident that foresight is a wonderou...
The Power of Partnerships
The global Covid-19 pandemic came completely out of the blue. Except it didn’t. The terrorist attack in Vienna was a shock and surprise in one of the world’s safest cities. Except it shouldn’t h...
Soft Target Protection – What’s in a Name?
On January 19, 2021, The UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (OCT), launched The Global Programme to Countering Terrorism Against Vulnerable Targets, developed in partnership with the UN Alliance of Civili...
Are You a Naked Emperor When it Comes to Cyber Security?
We are passionate about seeing and managing security threats and risk in the round. We do not believe that physical and cybersecurity should work in silos and for them to do so is a strategic risk vul...
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