Organisational resilience - How resilient is your organisation?

About the workshop

'Organisational resilience' is a concept that can be applied to assist public and private sector organisations in significantly improving their ability to meet specific challenges such as minimising the impact of severe disruptive events. The capacity of resilience is found in an organisation's culture, attitudes and values. It is possible to survive a crisis AND turn adversity into opportunity if you have the right framework in place and the necessary skills to do so. To become a truly resilient organisation, the organisation must want to be resilient and live the values and attitudes that ensure survival in times of adversity.

This highly interactive workshop has been specifically designed to provide you with the tools to ensure your organisation is 'change ready', networked and has the appropriate leadership capability and the right culture to successfully build organisational resilience.

This is professional development at its best! If you're looking for a hands-on workshop led by a leading, international industry expert, designed to help you get your organisation up to speed with the very latest thinking and best practice initiatives, then this is it!

Benefits of Attending

• Gain an understanding of the rationale and principles underpinning organisational resilience
• Appreciate the value and business benefits of taking an organisational resilience approach
• Understand how being 'change ready', networked and having appropriate leadership and culture contributes to organisational resilience
• Draw from an extensive knowledge base in organisational resilience
• Hear first-hand experiences in building resilience and surviving adversity from industry experts

Who Should Attend?

This programme is recommended for all those in the public and private sector with direct responsibility for developing, implementing and maintaining continuity and contingency capabilities. This is likely to include senior managers, Operations Managers, Facilities Managers, Risk Managers and H&S Managers in Business Continuity, Risk Management/Control/Operational Risk, Disaster Recovery, Information Technology & Telecommunication, Crisis Management, Emergency and Contingency Planning, Security and Human Resources.

About your workshop leader

Michael Tarrant
Adjunct Associate Professor
Queensland University of Technology

Michael Tarrant holds adjunct appointments; including Associate Professor in the Public Health Faculty at Queensland University of Technology and in the Department of Tropical Medicine at James Cook University Townsville.

He has presented to conferences, run courses and workshops in Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Philippines, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Italy, England, Canada and the US and is an advisory Board Member for the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness and the planning Committee of the World Conference on Disaster Management.

Specialist guest presenters include:

Dr Robert Kay, Co-founder of Incept Labs, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney

Robert was recently commissioned to undertake a study on CEO perspectives on Organisational Resilience for the Australian Commonwealth Attorney General's Department. Check online to find out what they say about Dr Robert Kay's presentation style and his extensive background in Organisational Resilience.

Dr John Vargo, Co-Leader, Resilient Organisations Research Programme, University of Canterbury

John Vargo is a world renowned speaker who was recently selected to speak at the prestigious WCDM (World Conference on Disaster Management) in Canada. Check online to find out more about Dr John Vargo's extensive experience in Organisational Resilience. See www.acevents.co.nz/errm2012 to find out more details about Dr John Vargo.