Lunch-n-Learn: Business Continuity Planning Awareness

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Lunch-n-Learn: Business Continuity Planning Awareness
Instructor Jeanne D. Powell, MBCP, PMP, DAHR Consulting Inc; Rowlett CERT Instructor

This presentation is intended to raise awareness of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) planning for small businesses.  We will talk about what resiliency is and why you should care about it; clarify some terms and identify different types of disasters for this area; review what to expect from public responders and civic leaders; and some of what a small business plan for business recovery and disaster recovery (yes, they are different) should have.  Jeanne developed a very basic Business Recovery and Disaster Recovery Plan Workbook for small businesses, which you will take with you.  It is intended to give you a head start on building your own plans.

Jeanne Powell, MBCP, PMP is the CEO of DAHR Consulting, Inc.  She is both a Certified Master Business Continuity Professional and a Certified Project Management Professional.  Jeanne retired from the IBM Corporation after 36 years, with 26 of those years in the IBM Resiliency Services US group - the disaster recovery wing of IBM.  She was the Business Continuity Program Manager for all IBM Resiliency Services US sites for over 16 years.  Jeanne’s experience and subject matter expertise is both wide and deep in business, I/T, communications (both technical and crisis messaging), facilities, and disasters.  In her personal life, Jeanne is deeply involved in Rowlett Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) as part of the leadership team, a certified CERT instructor, and Associate Advisor of the Explorers group (emergency response emphasis).  She's actively participated in numerous business and public disaster situations.  Jeanne’s knowledge and teaching style reflect both her professional and personal experience.