Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness & Innovation
ICOR’s 2026 monthly webinar series goes beyond theory to show how organizations measure, strengthen, and activate resilience using metrics that truly matter.
Across this 10-part series, participants will explore the 5 dimensions of organizational resilience, unpack the 15 core resilience strategies, and dive deep into 75 critical resilience capabilities that drive preparedness, adaptability, and innovation. Included in the exploration is deep-dive into each of the 6 behaviors that are important in preventing breakdown or failure; or enabling an appropriate and timely response to be taken.
Each session is designed to be practical and actionable, giving participants the opportunity to conduct a real-time snapshot assessment of their organization’s resilience—transforming insights into informed decisions, stronger readiness, and competitive advantage.
Back again year! Due to its popularity, participants have the opportunity to earn their “Measuring Resilience Badge” by attending all 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 for 1 Hour / .1 CEU.
Metrics that Matter
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
As an introduction to the 10-webinar series, we will begin by introducing the 5 dimensions of organizational resilience along with the 15 strategies that support them. We will also look closely at the 6 behaviors important in preventing breakdown or failure; or enabling an appropriate and timely response to be taken. They can be observed in relation to the 15 strategies or outcomes and 75 capabilities and provide concrete examples of how to measure a resilience capability.
Attend this webinar to gain an understanding of what should be measured and why it matters.
Leadership & Strategy
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
Organizational resilience is not accidental—it is built through the intentional implementation of resilience strategies. Leadership behavior directly influences how resilience is enacted, rooted in a shared vision, unity of purpose, and a deep understanding of the organization’s role within its broader ecosystem of interconnected relationships. Leaders set the tone for resilience throughout the organization.
Attend this webinar to build clarity of your understanding of the 3 Leadership and Strategy strategies and the capabilities required to ensure that the resilience strategy is effectively implemented. Participate in scoring your organization’s capabilities and behaviors related to Leadership and Strategy.
Culture & Behavior
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
Organizational resilience increases when an organization deliberately cultivates a healthy culture. Such cultures reinforce resilience through shared values, positive mindsets, and constructive behaviors. They promote the open sharing of knowledge and information and enable the organization to operate with agility in the face of change.
Attend this webinar to build clarity of your understanding of the 3 Culture and Behavior strategies and the capabilities required to ensure that the resilience strategy is effectively implemented. Participate in scoring your organization’s capabilities and behaviors related to Culture and Behavior.
Best Practices
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
From Assessment to Action: Insights from Organizational Resilience Capability Assessments conducted against ICOR’s Framework. What organizations do well, where they struggle, and how to move from scores to sustained resilience.
In this webinar, we will focus on the assessment process of the first 2 dimensions: Leadership & Strategy, and Culture and Behavior. You will learn why assessing the maturity levels of organizational resilience matters, how to prepare for the assessment, what to expect from the assessment, and how to turn the assessment outcome into sustainable organizational resilience.
Organizational Infrastructure
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
Organizational resilience increases when an organization intentionally manages the physical structures that enable its operations and long-term success. This encompasses the way it protects and supports its people and how it designs, maintains, and utilizes its workplaces to ensure safety, continuity, and adaptability.
Attend this webinar to build clarity of your understanding of the 3 Organizational Infrastructure strategies and the capabilities required to ensure that the resilience strategy is effectively implemented. Participate in scoring your organization’s capabilities and behaviors related to the organization’s infrastructure.
Preparedness & Managing Risk
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
Organizational resilience is enhanced through the deliberate management of risk and proactive preparation for uncertainty. Resilience is reinforced when its systems that manage risk are aligned and work collaboratively, enabling informed decision-making and coordinated response.
Attend this webinar to build clarity of your understanding of the 3 Preparedness & Managing Risk strategies and the capabilities required to ensure that the resilience strategy is effectively implemented. Participate in scoring your organization’s capabilities and behaviors related to Preparedness & Managing Risk.
Best Practices
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
From Assessment to Action: Insights from Organizational Resilience Capability Assessments conducted against ICOR’s Framework. What organizations do well, where they struggle, and how to move from scores to sustained resilience.
In this webinar, we will focus on the assessment process of dimensions 3 and 4: Organizational Infrastructure, and Preparedness & Managing Risk. You will learn why assessing the maturity levels of organizational resilience matters, how to prepare for the assessment, what to expect from the assessment, and how to turn the assessment outcome into sustainable organizational resilience.
Continual Improvement & Innovation
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
More resilient organizations actively promote continual improvement and innovation at all levels and are committed to ongoing validation, learning, and enhancement of their organizational resilience capabilities. This includes the coordination and alignment of systems, regular evaluation of performance, and an understanding of the community(ies) where the organization delivers its objectives.
Attend this webinar to build clarity of your understanding of the 3 Continual Improvement and Innovation strategies and the capabilities required to ensure that the resilience strategy is effectively implemented. Participate in scoring your organization’s capabilities and behaviors related to Continual Improvement and Innovation.
Best Practices
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
From Assessment to Action: Insights from Organizational Resilience Capability Assessments conducted against ICOR’s Framework. What organizations do well, where they struggle, and how to move from scores to sustained resilience.
In this webinar, we will focus on the assessment process of the fifth dimension: Continual Improvement & Innovation. You will learn why assessing the maturity levels of organizational resilience matters, how to prepare for the assessment, what to expect from the assessment, and how to turn the assessment outcome into sustainable organizational resilience.
Building an Agile Improvement Process
Measuring Organizational Resilience to Drive Preparedness and Innovation
Measuring an organization’s resilience capabilities that deliver on its strategy requires an agile approach. An agile performance evaluation process strengthens organizational resilience by delivering timely, high-value insights when they are needed most. Through continuous review, interim reporting, and close collaboration with stakeholders, organizations gain the clarity required to anticipate disruption, adapt quickly, and remain prepared for change. By shifting reporting from documentation to actionable intelligence, agile evaluations help organizations sustain readiness and build confidence in their resilience capabilities.
Attend this webinar to learn more about how to transform your performance evaluation process using an agile approach. Participate in scoring your organization’s capabilities and behaviors related to using an agile performance evaluation process.
Developing Leaders in Turbulent Times
July 26, 2023
Online

Leadership can make or break an organizationÕs future, especially in turbulent times. Few strategic challenges are more compelling than identifying, developing and properly positioning the leaders of tomorrow. Successful organizations embed leadership responsibility at all levels, and invest heavily in leadership development.
With the psychological and emotional role that leaders need to play if they are to optimize morale and productivity during turbulent times, it is more important than ever that organizations understand the four leadership behaviors that are critical during times of uncertainty and change.
Moving from Managing Risk to Strategic Resilience
June 21, 2023
Online

If itÕs taught us nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the business case for leaders to move from defensive risk management to a forward-looking stance based on strategic resilience. The pandemic crisis has dramatically illustrated the short-sightedness of focusing on a small number of well-defined risks and the need to instead create a long-term strategy to successfully navigate in a world where there is a dynamic pace of change.
Attend this webinar and learn how to move to a broader mandate of integrating the risk function with other core functions to enable a more holistic resilience strategy.
The Role of Cross-Functional Teams in Building Resilience & Agility
May 24, 2023
Online

The coming together of minds from different teams and departments allows you to innovate, bring fresh perspectives, and strive towards shared goals. Relying on a single person or group of people to drive innovation excludes the input of different perspectives. Cross-functional collaboration drives progress across business units and departments.
Attend this webinar and learn how to use cross-functional teams to increase engagement, create a sense of purpose, and streamline work processes.
Managing Risk to the Data Center
April 19, 2023
Online

Traditional risk management is no longer an adequate activity to fully understand threats to critical environments such as data centers. With risks including increased demands to power land, and water, combined with supply chain disruptions, managing risk has become much more difficult. The increase in demand for ÒEverything as a ServiceÓ (XaaS) has also complicated this process.
Attend this webinar and learn more about the new risk environment in data centers and other critical environments.
Implementing a Unified Incident Response Structure
March 29, 2023
Online

An incident response capability can be applied to any function within an organization as well as when the incident requires shared response between organizations, between organizations and government, and between governments.
Attend this webinar and learn how to build an incident response capability that can be applied to any function and across multiple functions within an organization ensuring it operates as a single unified response system.
Managing Reputation Risk
February 22, 2023
Online

An organization in crisis faces many grave threats. Employees can be in physical danger. Buildings can fall. Customers can be lost. But the most serious threat is and always will be the threat to the organizationÕs most important asset Ð its reputation.
To protect the organization from reputation threats requires careful, thoughtful, detailed planning and a methodology for inculcating a culture of crisis preparedness.
In this webinar, you will learn how to prepare the organization for inevitable threats to reputation, execute the crisis communications plan, then, when the crisis has passed, assess and do what must be done before the next threats occur.
ISO 27001: 2022 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection – Protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your organizationÕs information security assets
January 25, 2023
Online

The world is facing new evolving security challenges and the updated ISO 27001:2022 standard published in October 2022 reflects those challenges by aiming to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of organizationsÕ information assets. The new versionÕs complete title is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection.
Attend this webinar to learn about the changes to Annex A and updates of its clauses and how to use it to prove the strength of your security posture to prospects and customers in global markets.
Building a Crisis Management Capability
December 14, 2022
Online

A crisis management capability is required to manage the increasing challenges of leading organizations during times of uncertainty. Lessons learned after almost 3 years of managing the changes due to the pandemic, have taught us all the importance of having a strong crisis management capability.
Attend this webinar and learn how to increase your organization’s crisis management capability including what should be included in every crisis management and communication plan.
Understanding the Resilience of Your Community – Why Does it Matter?
October 26, 2022
Online

The global pandemic has demonstrated to us all the importance of resilience community systems. The resilience of your community – large or small – impacted businesses, social systems, health systems, goverments, and public services. And the resilience of each of these systems impacted the people who live there.
Attend this webinar to learn more about the social, environmental, and economic challenges faced by communities and what types of strategic initiatives community leadership should consider in order to ensure they are prepared to meet them.
Measuring Your Organization’s Resilience -Sneak Peak at ICOR’s Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment
September 21, 2022
Online

There is a lot of talk in the marketplace about resilience and how to increase the resilience of your organization, but much of it is focused on very narrow aspects – often as a sales pitch where the purchase of a specific product will solve all your problems.
ICOR’s Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment (ORCA) was developed to help leaders identify their organization’s strengths and weaknesses through a strategic lens and to provide a baseline for determining how to implement specific strategies to increase their capabilities.
Attend this webinar for a sneak peak at the ORCA tool and participate in a “short-assessment” of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses.
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.
