The BCI Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The BCI Podcast is a weekly series featuring discussions with Business Continuity & Resilience professionals from around world offering insight and guidance on live current affairs topics affecting businesses around the globe. Each episode will discuss a different area of Business Continuity and how it can be impacted by political, social and environmental change. Expect to hear Business Continuity insight on current affairs topics like the South African protests, the Ford Supply chain failure, Environmental disaster recovery for MSME’s in the Philippines and even how BC professionals can prepare crisis management strategies for the unforgiving arena of social media.
In this episode, Steph Morris, Head of Learning, The BCI, leads an insightful conversation exploring the impact of training and education in one’s career, how they support professional development, and building a career that is agile and resilient to ever-changing working environments and in the job market, as well as new risks/threats faced by organizations.
Guest speakers:
- Sam Howard, CEO, Continuity Shop
- Marie-Helene Primeau MBCI, Executive VP, Premier Continuum Inc.
- Seshadri Srinivasan, Independent Consultant and Trainer, Network Intelligence
- Cheyene Marling HonMBCI, Managing Director- Talent Management & Reseach Analytics, BC Management.
In this episode, the BCI’s Thought Leadership team will discuss the importance of research and thought leadership for shaping the future of the business continuity & resilience industry.
Speakers:
- Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, The BCI
- Maria Florencia Lombardero Garcia, Research Manager, The BCI
- Kieran Matthews, Content Creator, The BCI
How conferences still play a crucial role in professional development, education, and providing networking opportunities.
This episode will feature Sergio Gallego-Schmid, Events Manager at The BCI, and Alice Kaltenmark, Hon FBCI, Service Continuity Manager, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, and member of the PAG for BCI World Hybrid 2023.
They discuss how conference events are still very much relevant, and how they support professionals and practitioners in developing their career & network, and how they bring the global business continuity & resilience community together.
In this episode, BCI’s Head of Membership Experience, Shola Jinadu, and Des O’Callaghan FBCI, come together in an engaging conversation about membership associations.
They share personal perspectives, with Shola leveraging her experience working for professional bodies and Des being an expert in business continuity as well as a long-standing Member of the BCI.
They discuss how professional membership associations still play a key role in providing professionals with unique opportunities and benefits, as well as creating a community that can share, exchange, and connect people.
Rina Singh in conversation with Mohamed Al Alawi CBCI, Supervisor Business Continuity, The BENEFIT Company.
When it comes to business continuity awareness - why doesn't a one size fit all?
Join us in this exciting new episode with Mohamed Al Alawi, who will discuss the importance of culture, industry type and human factors when it comes to raising awareness of business continuity.
He will use case studies of his own experience in the Automotive (Daimler, Stuttgart), Retail (Zalando, Berlin), Manufacturing (BFG International, Bahrain), & Fintech (The BENEFIT Company, Bahrain) sectors.
Rina Singh in conversation with Mark Hobden MBCI, Director of Operations Support at Bidvest Noonan.
In this brand-new episode, Mark will discuss how implementing ISO22301 certification across organization in different location helped him raise awareness of business continuity among staff.
Mark will also examine:
- Business Continuity awareness during in the era of COVID-19.
- The challenges faced during the pandemic.
- How he expects things to move forward during the year?
Rina Singh in conversation with Michael Puldy, Founder / CEO Puldy Resiliency Partners, LLC .In this exciting new episode, Michael Puldy shares over three decades of experience and passion in ways companies can improve their offensive and defensive posture towards internal and external threats.
He will also provide essential advice on how to engage with staff in large scale organization and how to keep staff aware of the threats and safety measure to put in action when needed.
Rina Singh in conversation with Harshita Mathur MDEM, AMBCI.
In this engaging new episode, Harshita will provide insight about personal resilience, why it is so important and how to raise awareness of it within organizations. She will discuss:
- Resilience as a multifaceted concept – why it is important to make staff and employees aware of the concept of resilience and personal resilience?
- Personal Resilience –how to explain the concept of personal resilience to your staff:
- Psychological resilience.
- Optimism & mindfulness.
- Impact of Covid-19. - Embedding a BC culture within an organization
- Lessons learned from the pandemic.
- Align with other organization priorities (DEI + industry specific).
- Leadership strategy with a global mindset.
Rina Singh in conversation with Jim Preen, Director of Crisis Management, YUDU, and Richard Stephenson, CEO, YUDU.The now common practise of remote working continues to cause major cyber security headaches for companies and individuals. Criminals continue to take advantage of lax cyber security with staff no longer having ready access to IT security to help them stay cyber-safe.
What do home-hackers have in store for us during 2021? What can firms do to protect themselves and keep their employees aware of cyber security?
Rina Singh in conversation with Tim Janes HonFBCI, Business Continuity Consultant, former chair of The BCI.Business Continuity Management has traditionally been a ‘hands-on’ discipline with most activities conducted in face-to-face situations, whether as a programme planning meeting, BIA workshop, or desk-top exercise.
Many organisations have now adopted remote working practices for much of their workforce that have proven popular and productive, and so are likely to become permanent. The pandemic has also increased the visibility of business continuity and resilience in many organisations, but this may be a transitional effect.
We need to consider how these, and other significant COVID-19 induced changes, may impact on business continuity and think about what business continuity practices will look like when the pandemic has passed? Will the BC profession need to adapt established practices to accommodate more enduring changes such as remote working where colleagues may rarely be in the same place at the same time?
Rina Singh in conversation with Sarah Garrington MBCI, Business Continuity Manager.
Join Rina & Sarah for this new episode that will discuss how to embed business continuity, raise awareness, and measure the results of your campaign. During this pleasant conversation, Sarah will provide some key concepts & practical tips on the embedding stage of the BCM Lifecycle, including:
- Why is embedding important?
- What sort of approach should you take; is it a one size fits all situation?
- What does a successful embedding programme look like and achieve?
- What’s the biggest surprise to have come from any sort of embedding activity and why?