Erika Andresen is the Founder and Business Continuity Expert at EaaS Consulting LLC, which advises companies on disaster preparedness and operational continuity. As an expert in emergency management and business continuity, she has 10 years of experience advising on disaster response for an international organization. After a career as a corporate attorney, Erika served in the US Army JAG Corps, where she attained the rank of major, advising generals on state-side operations, responding to disasters, and managing terrorist threats in Afghanistan. She is also the best-selling author of How to Not Kill Your Business.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- How Erika Andresen became a business continuity expert
- The essential systems of business continuity
- How to manage business continuity during explosive growth
- Developing a business continuity process
- Disaster preparedness strategies
- Client success story: how Erika accelerated a company’s growth
- The importance of documenting processes
In this episode:
Business risks and disasters are more than just unlikely what-if scenarios. These circumstances demand a precise level of preparedness and can include everything from unexpected growth and founder deaths to natural disasters and active shooter situations. How can you safeguard your business against potential threats?
With deep expertise in disaster preparedness and risk mitigation, former attorney and veteran Erika Andresen asserts the fundamental importance of creating and documenting processes to mitigate and prevent disruptions. Her business continuity assurance process involves identifying vulnerabilities and threats and performing a risk analysis. After creating and refining processes accordingly, establish single points of failure that would be impacted by potential disasters. You can then develop security control measures and backups to ensure proper risk management.
Tune in to this episode of Systems Simplified as Adi Klevit hosts Erika Andresen, the Founder and Business Continuity Expert at EaaS Consulting LLC, for a conversation about business continuity systems. Erika shares the key principles of a business continuity strategy, how to manage a business during explosive growth, and how she accelerated a company’s growth through business continuity.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Adi Klevit on LinkedIn
- Business Success Consulting Group
- Erika Andresen on LinkedIn
- EaaS Consulting LLC
- “Creating a Process for Safety Culture and Risk Mitigation With Joshua Keene” on Systems Simplified
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