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Do you want to know how to build a career in Cyber Resilience and use Personal Transformation to enhance your own resilience and career?  

 Join me with my next award winning guest, Anu Kukar. An International trail blazer who has delivered 55 keynote and Panel speaking engagements  Across 9 countries. She is 2021's IT security champion winner for Australia's Women in Security Network bringing with her over  20 years executive consulting and industry experience. 

  In this episode we dive deep into :  

1. What does self transformation mean  
2. What steps did Anu take to go through self transformation and build her own resilience?  
3. Anu switched careers 5 times- What made her do this and why? 
4. Anu's golden tips to switch to a career in resilience , specifically into Cyber?
5.  The Switch2Cyber Campaign 
6. Final thoughts/close.

What is Economic Resilience? Have you ever wondered? How does it relate to our resilience industry?

Join me with my next guest, a sought after advisor on economic recovery, Forbes next 1000 entrepreneurs to follow , twice, top 50 international Covid thought leader, global gov tech influencer , leading woman in business in Delaware's today magazine, and so much more, Kirsten McGregor, Principle and Founder of SAGAX Associates LLC, USA.

In this episode we uncover: 

1. What is Economic Resilience? 
2. How do you measure Economic resilience? 
3. How can we embed economic resilience with other resilience disciplines such as emergency management, business continuity etc ? 
4. Why do we need to consider economic resilience in the first place? 
5. What is the consequence if we do not? 
6. What are the top 3 things I should do now as a resilience professional to start the economic resilience discussion in my business? 

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

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Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

• All I want for Christmas is RESILIENCE? 🧐 
• Is this what you want?✅ 
• Does the holiday season bring you a sense of joy (like bread 🍞 and croissants 🥐do for me) ✅ 
• Does it bring a sense of dread? 😒
• Are you waiting for the holidays to re-charge? 🔋 
• But it's not really working? ❌ 
• Want some tips?  ✅  
• Want to train your brain 🧠to be positive and adopt a 💪 powerful mindset instead of a😡 primal mindset? ✅  

🕒Take 12 minutes to watch/listen to this special episode. I promise it will  be worth it.

If you want to know what happened during the previous 11 days of the 12days of resilience then head over to the our

 Linkedin page - linkedin.com/company/resiliencepod

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Understanding organizational culture to create a resilience program is probably one of the most under rated topics and focus of our industry and day jobs. Who is getting this done? And done correctly? Did you consider it?  

I am joined  with my next guest Helen Lipscombe, Global Business Continuity lead at Starbucks, UK  who brings with her 20 years' experience in business resilience, across multiple disciplines (risk management, crisis management, business continuity). Worked across multiple sectors public and private as a consultant both internally and externally to support organizations in building resilience. 

 In this episode we look at :   

1. What is organizational culture   
2. How can it be defined? 
3. Does it vary?  
4. Why look at organizational culture  
5. What is the impact if we do not?  
6. How can we look at organizational culture?  

  Enjoy and let me know what you think.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

• Are you considering your personal resilience during a disruption/high pressure event? 
• Do you find it hard to put yourself first when you know you should? 
• Should you even care about this? 
• Do you want to know how you can manage your personal resilience during a disruption to thrive and revive?

Yes? 

Join me this is episode with Jolie Wills, a leading psychosocial expert in disaster and disruption and co-founder of Hummingly, New Zealand, as we unpack this exciting topic and answer these burning questions.  As a cognitive scientist, Jolie has studied how the mind works under prolonged pressure, how we make decisions and how our reactions and behaviours are impacted by stress. 

It's not just theory we are talking about but practical steps too because Jolie has experiences of managing personal resilience during a disruption  as she survived the Christchurch earthquake and has lived disaster recovery with her family first hand. I promise this episode will be worth the investment of your time, especially if you answered YES to all my questions above.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Do you want to know how to raise the bar in resilience?  

Join me with my next guest who brings with him 22+ years of experience in Industry across multiple strategic roles in IT, Disaster Recovery, Continuity & Resilience across Engineering, FMCG Manufacturing, ITES & Publishing, Financial Services and IT & IT Services industries. Harsha Sastry, AVP, Functional Head of Global Business Continuity & Resilience | India.

In this episode we cover: 

• What does it mean to ‘raise the bar’ in resilience ? 
• What are the 4 key areas to raise the Bar in resilience?  and  
• What should I, as a resilience professional now go away and do to start looking and analysing if  I need to in fact, raise the bar? 

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Is your work life consumed with these new Operational Resilience Regulations?  Working in Financial Services and need something to help you keep track of where you are with compliance? Are you a global business implementing operational resilience best practices? Not in Financial Services but want to know if this applies?  I got you on this as I am with Paula Fontana Senior Director Product & Partner  Marketing at Fusion Risk Management (USA) to dig deeper into the  New Era of Operational Resilience. Are you ready?

 💡 What this episode covers:

• 00:00 -Introduction 
• 01:18 -What are the new Operational Resilience Regulations?
• 02:26 - Is this regulation only relevant to Financial Services industry? 
• 03:36- Should we be thinking the impacts of Operational Resilience on a global level? 
• 05:07 - The deadline for compliance is March 2022. What should we focus on right now? (3 key tips) 
• 07:10 -How can we get started to meet this obligation? 
• 08.41 - The details of the FREE checklist to help you get started for the #resiliencepod family. Including a summary of what the key questions are including emerging best practices.  
• 11.25 - Is Operational Resilience the same/re-branded as Business Continuity? 
• 14.28 - Is this a transformative moment for the resilience industry? 
• 15.00 : Leveraging Technology to scale and creating a resilient ecosystem takes time. 
• 17.22 : Final /Close  

🎁 Download your FREE Operational Resilience Self-Assessment Checklist 📑 ; https://www.fusionrm.com/operational-resilience-self-assessment 

 Is your business ready for this?  Did you download the checklist? If it's helped, let me know and I'd love to hear from you.

📍Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Adaptive Business Continuity - Evolution or devolution? Join me with my next guest who has controversially ruffled quite a few feathers in this space by bringing this concept into the business continuity industry and disrupted potentially the way we do things.

This episode covers: 

• What is adaptive Business Continuity?  
• What is the Adaptive approach?
• Why this approach? 
• How can practitioners decide? 

Did this resonate with you? Let me know.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Cyber Trauma and Your Resilience- Have you ever considered it?

Join me dig deeper into this with Catherin Knibbs, a Psychotherapist,  Clinical and Doctoral Researcher, Functional Coach, Clinical Supervisor specializing in child/adult trauma from either the real world (eg. MEN arena/Child abuse/accidents/emotional abuse) and Cyber -(any issue that involves technology i.e. computers/social media/smartphones/Internet).

•  00:00 Introductions 
•  02:35 What is Cyber Trauma? 
• 04:05 How do I know If I am a victim of Cyber Trauma?
•  05:00 Mirror neurons- What is it, why is it relevant to us? 
• 07:00 Virtual reality/AI and the effects of Cyber Trauma? How is biology linked?
•  09:53 Social Media and the 'disinhibition effect'- The hate/trolling online and why it happens
•  11:53 The impact social media hate can have on us and cause trauma and how we can react  
• 14:37 Negative emails in the workplace - is this a form of cyber trauma? 
• 17:03 GDPR Breaches have a huge impact on trauma - a real incident  
• 22:28 Tips to prepare yourself including Cath telling us a real story impacting her and a client
• 27:12 Cath advises me if one of my experiences were a form of Cyber Trauma.
• 28:00 Why Cyber Trauma is such an issue- we get an example. 
•  30.00 Final thoughts and close  

 Did this resonate with you? Let me know.  

Connect with Catherine via LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-knibbs-online-harms-cybertrauma-geek-gaming-clinician-2ba67b52/ 

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

In a world that is digital, are you leveraging technology to drive resilience?

• 00:00- Introductions
• 02:22- What is digital resilience? 
• 04:36- Does digital resilience enable technology-focused organizations? 
• 06:42- Are there tools in the market that can help organizations achieve an all-in-one resilience outlook?  
• 11:22 Technology and software are built for Resilience professionals, but what about those leads across the business? 
•  12:26 Understand your business first before embracing the technology to help drive resilience
•  15:23 Is technology being leveraged in other domains? 
• 16:50 An example of getting creative with technology to solve a mass communication issue  
• 18.56 Are you ready to leverage digital technology to drive resilience?  
• 21.13 What can we do if there are budget constraints? -Includes examples of free things we can use
• 24:39 Final closing thoughts   

So are you leveraging technology to drive resilience? Let me know.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Have you ever thought about how to make operational resilience language accessible?

Join me with my next guest, Balvinder Bains on RESILIENCEPOD. 

🔥In this episode we cover

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:02 How and Why do we need to think about making the language accessible
• 05:15 The reaction of using resilience lingo in diverse/geographic locations.
• 06:44 An example of how has Bal changed the language to make it accessible? 
• 08:07 What exactly did he do to make this change?
• 09:00 What was the first point of realization that language needs to change?
• 13:00 What can we do if we do not speak multiple languages, for example, to make resilience lingo accessible? 
• 16:43 What were the challenges and how did Bal overcome them?
• 17:00 Final thoughts 

Have you got any tips so that we can continue this conversation and find more actionable examples? Let me know.

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Is Vulnerability linked to Resilience? 

Join me with Rod Cartwright, a  resilience professional with over 25 years experience in issues management, crisis communication; leadership communication & executive preparedness.   

🔥In this episode we cover: (But first, stay tuned to find out why Rod has a Christmas tree up in the summer) 

•  00:54- Introduction
•  02:25-Leaders are at the forefront in an incident. Often they get it so wrong is it because we expect perfection and they try to deliver it? 
• 04:56-How can imperfection and vulnerability ultimately build greater trust and connection?   
• 11:28-Operationalizing empathy' in a crisis - What is this? 
• 12:54-The approach we should take - at an organizational and a human level? 
•  15:23-Examples of this done positively 
• 19:35-Is Vulnerability really linked to Resilience?  
• 21:22- Closing thoughts 

 So, does vulnerability link to resilience? Let me know what you think.  

📢This episode is sponsored by Origami Risk. An award-winning, adaptable, cloud-based platform that can help you and your business to manage all aspects of resilience. Visit https://www.origamirisk.com/resilience for your FREE access to exclusive resources to boost your business resilience.

Want to sponsor an episode/season or more? Get in touch .

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

1. Are you a Business Continuity /Resilience professional that is feeling tired, burnt out, and just overwhelmed by dealing with not only this pandemic but other incidents and crisis in your organization?
2. In the past 24 months, have you taken an actual break?
3. Feeling burnt-out, forgotten, and not sure what to do?

I got you! Today we are going to dig a bit deeper into burnout for our resilience professionals and what you can do to make a change in the right direction with my next guest who brings with him 17 years of experience in Business Continuity Management, Information Security, Disaster recovery audits and Business Continuity Project Management. He appreciates and sees the need of looking after our resilience professionals to make our business more resilient. I am pleased to introduce to you, Samir Macwana, Practice Leader-Business Continuity, from India.

🔥In this episode we cover:

🎤What does being ‘burnt out’ mean?
🎤Resilience teams are probably more burnt out than any other teams but often we do not realize this. Why?
🎤What is the impact of burnout on our resilience professionals?
🎤What should resilience professionals such as Business Continuity managers do if they feel burnt out?
🎤What can senior management do? 

Let me know if this has helped you or how you have dealt with this. 

Until next time, Keep Investing in YOUR Resilience | Rina-Host & Founder @resiliencepod

Hey there RESILEINCE POD'ers.

It is not everyday that you can get ACTUAL face time with a CEO of an organisation. Let alone one who has co -founded and runs a business that helps save lives. (insert excited emoji here). Yes, that is right SAVE LIVES. Intrigued?

READ ON...

Let's look into the journey and thinking patterns of my next guest , Matt Hodges Long, Co Founder and CEO of TrackMyRisks,  and what makes this resilient CEO a real model in our resilience industry. I promise it's one to watch, but if you are still unsure then scroll down:

In this episode we talk about:

⏰Where it all began (Matt’s first job, his journey and early entrepreneurial spirits)

💡The biggest lessons learnt so far from co -finding and being the CEO of his own start up. (We talk about what has surprised him in his journey, building a team and letting go and trust)

📲 💻Technology in business. Essential or nice to have. Find out Matt’s thoughts.

💪🏻 Resilience- How does Matt Manage a work life balance especially with a high demanding role /start up and boundaries for work and personal life

💡If Matt wasn’t the CEO of TrackMyRisks , what would he have liked to be doing?

💡Matt gives his advice for new startups. – In this we go into details of what he wishes he had known then, including the real truths no one tells you.

📚Matt also shares much more including his favourite book. You can tell and learn so much from the books people read. Who wouldn't want to know what a CEO reads? This one is worth sticking around to find out. WHY? It’s a powerful one as this inspired him to start his business. Now any book that has that much of an impact is absolutely one to read right?

WWW.RESILIENCEPOD.COM 

A unique opportunity to hear from a  real model who not only perfectly fits the critical for this show , but one who is breaking all barriers by not only being a fellow women in resilience, but inspiring us on her journey in rising to the challenge and being responsible for resilience for one of the largest metropolitan policing forces outside of London, all under the age of 30. (not that age is factor but I hope it will inspire you) Join me in showing your love and support to my next guest , the Head of Resilience at West Midlands Police, Kirsty Barroman. PLUS, find out : What resilience look like in policing? What does a head of resilience face in terms of challenges? What does a women in resilience, in a heavily male dominated industry face? What is the grey area's of resilience? Don't forget to subscribe here for first dibs on all FREE content to your mailbox!! Click here Until next time, *video was filmed BEFORE covid-19 restrictions(January 2020) 

2.00 What is WAR Site? - Work Area Recovery Site - Andrew tells us it's like taking out insurance.

3.10 The greatest impact for WAR sites as a business owner. There has been a question mark over the need of this. Andrew talks about the trends he has seen from his customers in this pandemic- some are increasing it

5.07 Research led to building a small/high quality centre.

6.40: Have organisations been using WAR sites ? - The response surprised me.

A pandemic has different terms, it is a grey area in the standard innovation terms where typically an office site in unavailable. Listen for more details.

9.10- Social Distancing requirements and what has been done differently. Andrew gives us into the workspace and the procedures that he has implemented.

10.02- Returning to work. Reducing density of offices and what the facility can be used for outwith traditional WAR. Innovation playing out right here. Do listen for this.

12.17: We talk about concerns Andrew faced as a business owner when the pandemic hit. Can customers  share work spaces in this situation?  Risks need to be managed and Terms and Conditions to be altered.

15.28 Have organisations been cancelling their WAR site contracts due to the new way of working? Andrew tells us what has been happening .

17.11- Is having WAR a luxury to have for organisations? Do you need it? Will everyone just work from home now? Andrew gives us his views. Listen to find out.

20.50: Online is not the same as face to face. We interact differently. Technology is not build for that kind of interaction.

21.53- Is this going to be the end of WAR Sites?

What is Andrew doing as a result of this?

25.00 : After the pandemic is over, organisations will question the validity of WAR sites. Andrew gives us his tips on what resilience professionals can consider in their organisations. Here is directly from him here.