2024 ALPMA Summit + ALTACON, 11-13 September 📽️ Watch On-Demand

Prepare or Panic: Business Continuity Planning Essentials

Event Recording

11 March 2020

Topic	Operational Management
Type	Event Recording
CPD	1 - Practice Management and Business Skills
	1 - New Zealand CPD

Pricing	AUD $199
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2019 ALPMA Summit plenary session.

How prepared is your firm for a disaster “event”? The risks facing organisations never abate, and are ever evolving. From the sudden departure of key people, to unwanted negative media attention, fraud, weather events or terrorism, the risks are plenty.

In this interactive session, participants will be provided with an overview of the key facets all good business continuity plans must have. After a general overview as to what good practice is with respect to business continuity planning, the session will then transition to covering practical tips specifically related to disaster preparedness and response. The session will be interactive, placing participants in the decision chair, as an extreme, yet realistic but hypothetical incident scenario unfolds. Participants will leave with a better understanding of what crisis preparation and disaster response protocols should look like in a real life situation.

Provided by

Nell McKay

K&L Gates at Risk Manager

Nell has over seventeen years experience in risk and quality management across the legal, engineering and registered training provision sectors.

Nell has practical and detailed experience in the implementation of ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines, ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems and LAW9000 Legal Best Practice.

Nell’s professional experience also includes over twenty years working in corporate management across a variety of businesses, following completion of a bachelor of commerce degree and masters of commerce degree. Nell’s background in corporate management provides a practical understanding of business operations and the ability to design and implement quality and risk solutions that are commercially practical and operationally effective.

Nell has expertise in disaster response and continuity planning for business and has successfully developed and implemented planning to respond to the Brisbane floods in 2011. Nell has assisted offices of K&L Gates in the Asian region to develop disaster response and continuity planning, with particular regard to pandemic response.

Specialties: Risk Management, Disaster Response and Business Continuity Planning, Quality Management

Dion Cusack

Corporate Services Manager at K&L Gates

A seasoned professional leader, Dion’s pragmatic and critical thinking skills enable him to achieve innovative, fresh, commercial outcomes that are well calculated, timely, appropriate and original.

Dion is the founder of a successful real estate investment, development and management firm, in addition to having held accountability for financial and operational management and performance across a variety of public and private sector organisations.

Dion engages with staff and peers to lead and create high performing teams and organisations by fostering a positive, flexible, and results driven culture.

Complemented by skills in human resources, technology, client, brand, strategic development, governance, business improvement and change management, Dion has also acquired specialist skills in audit, compliance, insurance, risk and business continuity management, corporate and commercial law.