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.
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.
