The role of Corporate Leadership in Educating Employees to Risk Management and Resiliency

What is the role that corporate leadership needs to take in order to educate employees on risk management and resiliency?  Corporate leadership is ultimately responsible for managing risk within the organization.  This means that businesses leaders need to clearly and effectively communicate risk management to their employees and throughout the enterprise and its “value chain”.  This presentation is aimed at supporting top management teams and company boards to educate their employees to risk management and resiliency concepts.  This presentation will review the requirements and key elements of an effective risk management education program.  You will gain ideas, concepts, and tools that will help you to develop your program and embed risk management awareness in your organization’s culture.

Main points covered:

• The composition of the crisis management team (CMT)
• Getting the CMT to understand its roles and responsibilities
• Ensuring that the organization understands resiliency roles and responsibilities
• Developing human capital to address crisis situations
• Leadership traits

Our presenter for this webinar is Geary Sikich, a Principal with Logical Management Systems, Corp. He is active in Executive Education, where he has developed and delivered courses in enterprise risk management, contingency planning, performance management and analytics.  Geary is a frequent speaker on business continuity issues business performance management.  He is the author of over 250 published articles and four books, his latest being “Protecting Your Business in Pandemic,” published in June 2008 (available on Amazon.com).  Geary is a frequent speaker on high profile continuity issues, having developed and validated over 2,500 plans and conducted over 300 seminars and workshops worldwide for over 100 clients representing the spectrum of private and public sector operations.