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In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses roles and responsibilities within a business continuity program. What roles should be established? What are their responsibilities? Topics discussed include the benefits of having clear roles and responsibilities in a business continuity program, assessing the best talent for key roles in your program, and how the various proposed roles help advance and mature your business continuity program. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: Business Continuity Program Roles & Responsibilities Blog Post: Before the Crisis: The Value of a Trusted Business Continuity & Crisis Management Advisor Episode #102: The Bryghtpath Business Continuity Framework Episode #104: Supporting the team in a prolonged crisis Episode #106: Rethinking Business Continuity in the age of COVID-19 Episode Transcript Hello, and welcome to the Managing Uncertainty podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, Principal and Chief Executive here at Bryghtpath. And in this week’s episode of our podcast, I’d like to talk about roles and responsibilities within a business continuity program. Folks come to us all the time with questions about their business continuity program. Wondering about roles and responsibilities, if you’re wondering about roles and responsibilities, you are not alone. When we talk to businesses about their continuity planning, we get asked every time, and every thing from what is one at the most basic level. A lot of companies don’t understand about business continuity plans, or BCPs and how that’s fundamentally different from disaster recovery planning or crisis planning. Whereas, business continuity plans are about keeping your business running through a disruption. In the latter, disaster recovery plans are about resuming IT operations and bringing back critical technologies and infrastructure. But we also get questions that are on a more granular level. Like what are the most important roles in a business continuity planner program? What do those roles and responsibilities mean? How do roles interrelate? And how do we ensure we have the right people in these roles? As risk management and continuity experts here, at Bryghtpath, we help companies cut through all this confusion and get clear about the path you need to be on for business continuity planning and program success. When we talk about business continuity planning, we’re talking about the process of creating a framework that effectively allows you to respond to organizational disruption, minimizing the impact of that disruption on your organization, and ensuring operational continuity and resiliency. Let’s talk about the benefits of having good continuity planning, and then we’ll transition from that to talking a little bit about the roles and responsibilities. When we take a step back and examine the why of business continuity planning and programs, if the pandemic has taught us anything it’s that the unexpected can and absolutely will happen to our organizations. One client of ours shared a debrief of their experience and how having a solid continuity plan was critical to their response