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 organizationIt should be a strategic, purposeful, and transparent approach that anticipates changes to the context in which the organization operatesThis 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 strategyWe will also introduce the dimensions that should be considered as part of your resilience strategy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Measuring Organizational Resilience

November 18, 2020

Online

Attend this webinar and get a sneak peek at ICORÕs Organizational Resilience Capability Maturity Model. Based on ICORÕs Organizational Resilience Framework and its Organizational Resilience Model, the OR Capability Maturity Model identifies capabilities across 5 maturity levels and 5 competency areas. Learn how the OR Capability Maturity Model can be used to measure your organizationÕs level of resilience and to plan strategies to increase its capabilities.

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Crisis Management in a Pandemic World

October 14, 2020

Online

The coronavirus pandemic has not only brought more and new challenges to crisis management professionals but has also renewed the focus on comprehensive crisis management planning, testing and execution. Join seasoned disaster and crisis response expert Tom Serio as he outlines what the Ònew normalÓ will likely be, including work locations, re-evaluating your BIA data, enhancing your response plans and the complexities the pandemic brings when occurring with other disasters.

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Putting Agile into Performance Management

September 16, 2020

Online

What can those responsible for measuring organizational performance learn from Agile Performance Management? Monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and evaluating how well the organizationÕs management systems meets the requirements of an international standard is oftentimes an ÒannualÓ activity that misses the mark when it comes to taking advantage of opportunities for continual improvement. Attend this webinar and learn how to create a dynamic performance evaluation process that can evolve and adapt according to a changing environment focused on continual improvement.

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Understanding the Facility Operations Maturity Model for Data Centers

August 19, 2020

Online

An operations & maintenance (O&M) program determines to a large degree how well a data center lives up to its design intent. The comprehensive Schneider Electric Data Center Facility Operations Maturity Model (FOMM) is a useful method for determining how effective that program is, what might be lacking, and for benchmarking performance to drive continuous improvement throughout the life cycle of the facility. Attend this webinar to gain an understanding of how implementing the FOMM enables on-going concrete actions that make the data center safer, more reliable, and operationally more efficient.

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Effective Employee Communication in the Time of Covid-19

August 24, 2020

Online

A botched COVID-19 communication response not only leads to unwanted stakeholder scrutiny, but it can cause significant physical and emotional harm as well as lasting damage to stakeholder trust, reputation, and the bottom line. While pandemic related information needs are extensive across all stakeholder groups, catering to the information and communication needs of employees is especially important. Join strategic communication and crisis management expert Oliver S. Schmidt as he discusses why employee communication must increase in volume and frequency and how to effectively inform, educate, motivate, and empower employees.

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Strategies to Increase Supply Chain Resilience

July 15, 2020

Online

All supply chains face risks. The more complex and global those supply chains, the greater their exposure. If something can go wrong, it probably will. There are different parts of your organization for managing risk to its supply chain, ensuring continuity of its supply chain, and improving the security of its supply chain. Each of these aspects is essential to increasing the overall resilience of the supply chain, but they are all too often done in silos, duplicating efforts, and missing important elements that fall between the silos. This webinar will review how you can ensure strategies exist to manage supply chain risk, continuity, and security.

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Hackers, #Hashtags & Health Emergencies: Does Your Crisis Communications Plan Reflect Today’s Reality?

June 10, 2020

Online

This session, delivered by former journalist and now award-winning global crisis communications consultant and pandemic planning specialist, Suzanne Bernier, will look at the evolution of crisis management and crisis communications over the years. Recent case studies and lessons learned will be reviewed, highlighting some of the challenges and successes companies and communities have faced along the way. Suzanne will also review traditional tips and tools required to ensure your organization communicates effectively throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, or any crisis, while avoiding any reputational damage or additional fall-out that could arise.

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Insights from an ISO 22301 3rd Party Auditor

May 27, 2020

Online

Are you wondering how to implement the changes to ISO 22301: 2019? How to demonstrate conformance? Gain insight and knowledge from a global 3rd party ISO 22301 Auditor who has conducted audits not only from around the world, but in almost every business sector and industry. Come prepared for this unique interactive webinar where you have the opportunity to submit your questions ahead of time and have them answered online!

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Risk Management Principles and Practices

April 29, 2020

Online

To what extent is the management of risk effectively implemented throughout your organization? Is risk management owned by a few or is the management of risk embedded in the responsibility of everyone? Attend this webinar and learn how to identify sources or types of risk, evaluate which risk identification methodologies will work best for you, how to analyze risk impacts, and to better understand how effectively managing risk is essential to increasing your organizationÕs resilience.

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Why Knowledge Management Matters

March 25, 2020

Online

Does your organization practice knowledge management? Do you have a way to measure the knowledge that Òwalks out the doorÓ when good people leave? Knowledge management, when implemented as a discipline, enables the sharing of information and knowledge to enable effective decision-making, learning from experience, and from others. It also addresses the reduction of organizational vulnerability. Attend this webinar and learn how to successfully implement knowledge management at your organization as one way to increase its resilience.

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Ensuring ICT Continuity

February 26, 2020

Online

It is time to focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Continuity so that we donÕt have to spend so many resources on IT ÒDisaster Recovery.Ó Attend this webinar and learn how to meet IT challenges, manage IT risk, ensure ICT Service Continuity, and strengthen Technology Recovery when necessary.

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The Agile BIA

January 29, 2020

Online

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is the cornerstone of any Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). As an essential component of the data gathering process, providing analytics that are not just relevant but timely should be a part of everyday operations Ð not a stand-alone project completed every 3 to 5 years. Attend this webinar and learn how to incorporate ÒagilityÓ into the BIA process.

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