Jun 15, 2020
Shutting down the global economy in the age of Covid-19 was tough. Reopening is proving even harder. How should organizations continue operating in this new normal? What are best practices and lessons learned from past outbreaks including SARS, MERS, H1N1, H5N1, Zika, and Ebola, and other hazards. In this podcast, Chloe Demrovsky, President & CEO of the Disaster Recovery Institute, explores the ways in which professionals can better prepare for and respond to the next crisis. Disaster Recovery Institute is a leading global nonprofit that helps governments, Fortune 500 companies and financial and other institutions around the world prepare for and recover from disasters by providing education, accreditation, and thought leadership in business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and other areas.
Speaker Bio
Chloe Demrovsky is the President and CEO of Disaster Recovery
Institute International, the oldest and largest nonprofit that
helps organizations around the world prepare for and recover from
disasters by providing education, accreditation, and thought
leadership in business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber
resilience and related fields. Founded in 1988, DRI has certified
15,000+ resilience professionals in 100+ countries and at 95
percent of Fortune 100 companies.
She previously served for three years as Executive Director during
which time she led DRI to a record number of certified
professionals with a 42% increase and oversaw the launch of a
number of valuable initiatives including the DRI Online Library,
the Collegiate Conference Program, the DRI Webinar Program, the
Future Vision Thinktank, a new risk management training and
certification program, the launch of DRI’s premier organizational
certification, and the most substantive revision of DRI’s core
training program in the history of the organization. During her
tenure, DRI’s conference reached a record level of attendance and
the organization launched a series of new committees dedicated to
better serving the industry’s diverse needs including Women in
Business Continuity, Young Leaders in Resilience, and the Veterans’
Outreach Program. She built the relationship with the United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, is a Board Director for
the DRI Foundation, and a Certified Business Continuity Vendor
(CBCV).
She is a senior Forbes contributor, has authored numerous articles,
appeared on Bloomberg TV, MSNBC and Fox, and has served as an
expert source for The Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, Conde
Nast Traveler, ABC News, and more. She has presented at dozens of
events across four continents and conducted on-site briefings for
government officials, government bodies including the European
Commission and international organizations as well as for visiting
delegations. She is a Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities Subject
Matter Advisor and served as an editor for the 2017 version of The
Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, the
coordinator for the first International Glossary for Resiliency and
the International Editor for Thrive International Blog and Thrive
Iberoamerica, DRI’s Spanish-language publication.