Business Continuity and Resiliency Planning Workshop

Helping you prepare for a major event...

Join Northwest SBDC, the Basalt Chamber, and S3 Partnerships for an upcoming Business Continuity Planning and Resiliency workshop series, October 25 (Basalt) and November 8 (Glenwood Springs).

Business continuity is critical for ensuring that businesses that are affected by an emergency or wide-scale disaster can recover as quickly as possible. This training will provide you with the practical insight to build a comprehensive and reliable Business Continuity Plan with significant value added materials to assist you long after the course is over.

Learn how to:

• Create, document, and test continuity arrangements for your organization

• Maintain continuity of operations and service delivery in the face of disaster

• Perform a risk assessment to identify vulnerabilities, mitigate business risk, and minimize financial exposure

• Test and maintain an effective recovery plan in a rapidly changing technology environment

Presented by:

Stephanie Palmer, S3 Partnerships

For 26 years Stephanie Palmer has been helping people avoid, prepare for, and recover from life-changing events.  Her first encounter with disaster was as a volunteer in the aftermath of the 1989 Oakland earthquake and two years later assisting evacuations from the Oakland Hills fires.  She traveled abroad working as a dive master in Thailand, organizing rafting trips in remote areas of Nepal, starting a farm in New Zealand, and becoming an Aromatherapist.  

The rafting industry brought her to Vail in 2003 where she embarked on a career at the Vail Valley Medical Center as the Director of Safety and Security, where she was responsible for the hospital’s security team and regulatory compliance for safety and emergency preparedness.  Since forming S3 Partnerships in 2013, she has acquired many prestigious clients such as the Sonnenalp Hotel, Eagle County Government, the Town of Vail, the Steadman Clinic, and the Vilar Performing Arts Center. She is one of a few hundred FEMA Master Exercise Practitioners in the country and is a Liaison Officer with the Colorado Northwest Incident Management Team. She is a volunteer with Eagle County Emergency Management and has served as the Secretary of Eagle County’s Public Safety Council for almost a decade. She recently served as one of the Eagle County EOC Managers during the Lake Christine Fire. She has a knack for bringing partners together and establishing collaborative relationships for sustainability of risk management, safety and emergency planning efforts.