
Theme: Resilience by Design
ICOR’s 2025 monthly webinars are focused on different strategies to increase the resilience of the organization’s operations. This is often called “Operational Resilience”. Back again year! Due to its popularity, participants have the opportunity to earn their Resilience by Design “Badge” by attending a minimum of 10 sessions of the learning series either live or on-demand.
ICOR Webinars are offered live and are available on-demand on both our website and on the ICOR YouTube Channel.
Each webinar is worth 1 continuing education hour. All webinars are scheduled for 12:00-1:00 PM CST / GMT 06:00 unless otherwise noted. Attendees who attend for a minimum of 35 minutes receive a certificate of attendance for 1 Hour / .1 CEU.

Resilience by Design
Determining the context of your resilience strategy
February 26, 2025
Online
The organization’s resilience strategy is determined by where leadership wants to strengthen the organization. It should be a strategic, purposeful, and transparent approach that anticipates changes to the context in which the organization operates. This enables the organization to adapt to these changes, identify vulnerabilities, and address them in a timely manner.
Attend this webinar to learn about how to determine the context of your resilience strategy. We will also introduce the dimensions that should be considered as part of your resilience strategy.
Operating as an Agile Organization
Building agile and flexible systems
March 19, 2025
Online
Rapidly changing business conditions demand more flexible organizations. More resilient organizations operate in an agile manner that enables successful reactions to the emergence of new competitors, rapid advancements in technology and sudden shifts in overall market conditions.
Attend this webinar to learn how operating as an agile organization in agile teams is a tool for managing all aspects of the organization and increasing its ability to anticipate, adapt, act in a timely manner.
Increasing the Resilience of your Operations
Implementing a Systems’ Approach to Managing Risk
April 23, 2025
Online
Now more than ever, organizations need to review how they manage risk – how they anticipate and respond to threats and opportunities – and how to build systems that are prepared for both current and future (emerging) risks.
Attend this webinar to learn about implementing a systems’ approach to managing risk and how to coordinate and align those systems to ensure they are robust, diverse, and resourceful.
Understanding the Global Impact of the Digital Operational Resilience Act
(DORA)
May 21, 2025
Online
While the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act targets the financial sector, aiming to strengthen the cyber resilience of financial firms, the law also targets information, communication, and third-party technology services that offer critical services to the financial sector.
In this webinar, you will learn about how organizations can ensure compliance with DORA and potential global implications.
Increasing the Resilience of your Crisis Management & Communications Capability
June 18, 2025
Online
Understanding your organization’s crisis readiness involves understanding how it manages everyday issues or problems and how it determines thresholds for initiating a more formal response. An organization’s crisis response capability is also impacted by how well it integrates and coordinates the different parts of the organization responsible for responding to an incident.
Attend this webinar and learn how to ensure that your crisis management capability is inclusive, collaborative, and ensures that strategies exist to effectively analyze situations, make difficult decisions, and communicate to all relevant interested parties.
Increasing the Resilience of your Business Continuity Management System
July 23, 2025
Online
A business continuity management system ensures the capability of the organization to deliver products and services at predefined time-frames and capacity. Its purpose is to prepare for and to provide and maintain controls and capabilities for managing the organization’s overall ability to continue to operate under all conditions.
Attend this webinar and learn about how a BCMS supports the resilience of the organization and how it provides a critical role in operations.
Building Resilience of ICT Systems & Data Center Operations
August 20, 2025
Online
Traditional risk management is no longer an adequate activity to fully understand threats to critical environments such as data centers and the ICT infrastructure that supports them. With risks including increased demands to power land, and water, combined with supply chain disruptions, managing risk has become much more difficult. High-availability is now the expectation.
Attend this webinar and learn more about the new risk environment in data centers and the ICT infrastructure that supports them.
Increasing the Resilience of your Supply & Value Chains
September 17, 2025
Online
Over the past 5 years, both the supply chains and value chains have come under significant threats. With the focus of supply chain on operations and the focus of value chain on business, there is often a silo between the two systems. More resilient organizations ensure that strategies exist to manage supply and value chain risk, continuity, and security.
Attend this webinar to better understand the importance of managing risk and security to your supply chain and value chain and how to ensure the continuity of both.
Increasing the Resilience of your Security Systems
October 22, 2025
Online
Physical security of your organization’s premises impacts the safety of the people who work there and the organization’s productivity. The risks to physical security systems need to be considered through the perspectives of the organization’s stakeholders, external environmental conditions, equipment use, storage, maintenance, access and compliance.
Attend this webinar and learn about how to increase the resilience of your facilities by strengthening your security systems.
Considering the Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Your Operations
November 19, 2025
Online
Geopolitical risk is not new, but is at the forefront of global organizations today now more than ever. The context for managing divergent geopolitical viewpoints needs to be addressed and considered from several perspectives. Organizations need to take both defensive measures to mitigate the impact of geopolitical disruptions and also be proactive to foster resilience.
Attend this webinar to learn more about how to transform geopolitical challenges into opportunities for growth while strengthening resilience.
Identifying & Implementing Strategies to Increase Resilience
August 24, 2022
Online

The COVID-19 pandemic has identified the need for organizational resilience to be a strategic initiative supported by leadership at all levels and documented in policy.
The resilience objectives defined in the policy provide the basis for increasing the organization’s strategic capability to deliver its objectives and to survive and prosper.
Attend this webinar to gain an understanding of how to design and implement an organizational resilience strategic initiative.
Increasing Resilience Through Diversity and Integration
July 27, 2022
Online

Diversity and integration have been at the forefront for the past several years in not just building more resilient organizations, but in ensuring a healthier workplace and more inclusive society.
Diversity is best implemented when there exists the opportunity to bring together disparate thoughts and strategies into cohesive solutions and actions. This includes the intentional horizontal and vertical integration of the working environment.
Attend this webinar and learn about how to intentionally recognize the importance of the diverse nature and characteristics of its people and how to implement systems where integration is an ongoing process that takes everyone into consideration.
How Self-Awareness Increases Performance and Improves Culture
June 22, 2022
Online

Even though self-awareness Ñ knowing who we are and how weÕre seen Ñ is important for job performance, career success, and leadership effectiveness, itÕs in remarkably short supply in todayÕs workplace.
When people are self-aware, they understand their strengths and challenges and know what helps them thrive. They also understand that how they see themselves may be different from how others see them. People with strong self-awareness skills recognize other people’s needs and feelings, enabling stronger emotional intelligence which results in having healthier relationships. They also have a growth mindset and learn from mistakes – being more reflective in nature.
Attend this webinar and learn how being aware of yourself and others is a key enabler in building a heathly culture both at work and at home. We will discuss how situational-awareness allows you to anticipate future conditions to reduce any potential negative impact. Learn how taking time to reflect and to learn from past experiences informs future decision-making and increases your ability to think beyond your current state.
Being Prepared in all Aspects of Your Life
May 25, 2022
Online

So often the behaviors of being “prepared, robust, and redundant” are applied to the infrastructure and systems of organizations. However, these behaviors are just as important for everyone to embrace.
Attend this webinar and learn about the importance if intentionally working out the details of a plan of action in advance of it being needed. Consider how you can build robust systems that are well-conceived, constructed, and managed so they can withstand significant impacts without damage or loss of function. Learn how spare capacity can be purposely created so that they can withstand disruption, extreme pressures, or surges in demand.
Collaboration and Inclusion – Enablers of Building Resilience
April 20, 2022
Online

In a world where the only constant is change, embracing a culture of collaboration is essential for businesses to grow and thrive. Collaboration – and it is a skill that can be learned – is an enabler of true teamwork across an organisation.
Collaboration is an important skill that helps us achieve various types of accomplishments and is crucial to working in an inclusive setting. No matter what the industry, you will improve not only your own performance but the performance of your organization, by effectively collaborating with your colleagues.
Attend this webinar to learn more about how collaboration increases engagement from all of its interested parties, enabling working together towards a common purpose or goal, and a sense of shared ownership or a joint vision to building resilience.
Being Resourceful, Creative, and Innovative Inside the Box
March 16, 2022
Online

Under times of uncertainty and change those people who are able to rapidly find different ways to achieve their goals or meet their needs are happier and more successful than those who are not.
Being resourceful, creative, and innovative provide the capability to transcend traditional ideas, roles, and patterns in order to create something new. They leverage originality of thought and demonstrate imagination to meet challenges in their lives at home and at work.
Attend this webinar and learn how organizations that foster creativity and innovation by seeking out and promoting new and innovative ideas are able to not only achieve their objectives, but to survive and prosper.
Adaptability & Flexibility – Key Ingredients in Resilience
February 23, 2022
Online

As Charles Darwin once said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Ultimately, there is no tool more powerful for survival than our ability to adapt.
We all experience ever-increasing uncertainty and change. The organization and its people must have the ability to change, evolve, and adapt in response to changing circumstances and have the ability to apply existing resources to new purposes in order to survive and thrive.
Attend this webinar and learn how to be more flexible and adaptable and to understand what kind of mechanisms should exist allowing organizations and its people to continuously evolve and to modify their activities rather than seeking solutions based on the status quo.
Webinar Objectives
- Understand the how to increase your skills in adaptability and flexibility
- Learn how to be more adaptable and flexible in your response to change
- Consider how to apply this knowledge to hiring and professional development practices
Individual Resilience – Where Organizational Resilience Begins
January 26, 2022
Online

This webinar will serve as an introduction to the ICOR 2022 webinar series on the skills, knowledge, and behaviors present in people who are able to thrive in the midst of constant change.
Resilience is not something you were born having – it’s built from the hundreds of daily interactions you have with the world. Attend this webinar to learn about the science of individual resilience and how you can learn to be a more resilient person and how organizations can identify the behaviors it requires to be more resilient.
Webinar Objectives
- Understand the science of individual resilience
- Learn how to build resilience skills, knowledge, & behaviors
- Consider how to apply this knowledge to hiring and professional development practices
How Culture Shapes Behavior to Build More Resilient Organizations
December 15, 2021
Online

The cornerstone of any organizational resilience strategy is the organization’s culture. It requires a commitment to building a more resilient organization and is dependent upon the existence of shared beliefs and values, positive attitudes, and behavior. Because culture provides a sense of identity to its people and reinforces the values of the organization, it serves also as a control mechanism for shaping behavior. This webinar will review the cultural attributes visible in more resilient organizations what leaders can do to foster a culture that supports its vision and mission.
Minimizing Risk to Global Value Chains
November 17, 2021
Online

In a world where hazards are occurring more frequently and causing greater damage, companies and policy makers alike are reconsidering how to make global value chains more resilient. Even before the COVID?19 pandemic, a multitude of events in recent years temporarily disrupted production at many companies.This webinar will explore the key findings of McKinsey’s study entitled, “Risk, Resilience, and Rebalancing in Global Value Chains”.
Risk Culture and Operational Resilience
October 20, 2021
Online

Risk culture refers to the mindset and behaviorial norms that determine how an organization identifies and manages risk. A healthy risk culture is more important than ever in a postpandemic world. Long term a healthy risk culture is a critical element of resilience against risk. A healthy risk culture is also an enabler of more dynamic and flexible risk management. This webinar will explore how to set up an effective risk culture program and how to build a more dynamic and flexible approach to managing risk and increasing operational resilience.
The Impact of Individual Purpose in Managing Postpandemic Uncertainties
September 29, 2021
Online

A core attribute of an organization’s resilience is an understanding of its vision and purpose. A critical component of this understanding is the impact of the purpose of of its people. In this webinar we will review the results of research into the intersection of organizational purpose and individual purpose and how the two interact and fuel each other as part of the employee experience. An understanding of these two aspects could prove to be vital in managing the postpandemic uncertainties that lie ahead.