
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.
Managing Risks to the Critical Environment
August 30, 2017
Online
It is estimated that by 2020, more than 7 billion people and businesses and close to 35 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. Those who design, build, operate, and manage data centers and other critical environments need to be able to manage risk, incorporate change, and be innovative in order to design strategies fit for a digital world. Attend this webinar and learn practical approaches to managing risks to the critical environment.
The New Era of Crisis Communications Ð From Traditional to Social Media and Beyond…
July 25, 2017
Online
During any crisis, communicating effectively to all key stakeholders is key. While there are many ways to communicate to your target audiences during an emergency, both traditional and social media are the most effective ways of pushing out information quickly to as many people as possible during a crisis. This session, delivered by a former journalist and now award-winning crisis communications consultant, will look at the evolution of crisis communications and how social media is changing the game. The session will also review traditional tips and tools required to ensure your organization can communicate effectively during a crisis, while avoiding any reputational damage or fall-out that could arise.
Implementing ISO 22301
June 21, 2017
Online
An important component of increasing an organizationÕs resilience is the implementation and management of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). This webinar will describe the 8 primary elements of an effective BCMS how they are best implemented.
Organizational Resilience Certification
May 25, 2017
Online
ICORÕs certification program is like no other. Attend this webinar to learn more about how to grow professionally and become a leader at your organization in increasing its resilience.
The Impact of National Cultures on Organizational Resilience
April 19, 2017
Online
As the world becomes more global, businesses and emergency response agencies must learn how to cope effectively with the many cultural value systems and mannerisms encountered outside of your nation. Understanding the values and traits that are characteristic of other cultures is especially important in resilience and disaster response planning. Attend this webinar and learn about the importance of observing and understanding cultural differences and gain insight on how to work effectively within other cultures as you design and operate resilience and crisis management programs.
Building Resilient Communities
March 22, 2017
Online
The resilience of an organization is impacted by the communities in which they reside. An understanding of what makes one community more resilient than another is an important aspect for all organizations to consider. This webinar will discuss the ICOR Resilient Community Framework and provide insight into the latest research in community resilience.
Increasing the Resilience of your Organization
February 22, 2017
Online
Organizational resilience is interpreted differently within different geographical contexts and academic disciplines. However, almost all of the studies speak to common characteristics in one way or another, despite their thematic, geographic and sectoral differences. This webinar will explore ICORÕs new Organizational Resilience Model and updated Framework. It will provide practical examples of how to increase the resilience of your organization and share valuable resources on how to learn more.