8.15.18_It's a Disaster
Join the East Colorado SBDC and Greeley Chamber of Commerce for August's Brown Bag!
When disaster strikes, will your business be prepared? From floods and tornadoes, to the "smaller" disasters like a key employee leaving your company, disaster can strike at any time. How will you and your company proceed? In this seminar, Howard Pierpont will give you and your business actionable steps you can implement to help your business be secure.
Topics include:
- Disasters - Aren't they just the 'big things'?
- Should you have a business continuity plan?
- Examples of what works (or doesn't work) during all types of disasters
- What should be included in a plan?
- How difficult is it to create a plan?
- What about maintenance?
- No-cost plan templates
Presented by
Howard Pierpont CBCP MCBI
Institute for Preparedness and Resilience
Howard Pierpont is the President and Chief Education Officer for the Institute for Preparedness and Resilience. The Institute is the educational preparedness arm of the International Association for Disaster Preparedness and Response (DERA), a membership organization founded in 1962 as a nonprofit association linking professionals, volunteers, and organizations active in all phases of disaster preparedness and emergency management. DERA remains an independent, nongovernmental organization with dual missions of professional support and disaster service.
Mr. Pierpont retired from Intel Corporation where he worked for the Corporate Business Continuity Program before assuming responsibility for Business Continuity and Preparedness for Worldwide Engineering. He later worked as a Training Unit Lead for FEMA Disaster Field Training Office before becoming a Long-Term Community Recovery Coordination Crew Leader, embedded in disaster-declared communities across the United States. He then spent two years speaking about resiliency, social media, and dealing with the government during times of disaster.
He recently returned from a five-month assignment with the US Economic Development Agency working with municipalities, small business, councils of government, and chambers supporting long-term recovery from Hurricane Harvey on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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