Discover Resilience: The Podcast Building a resilience committee: Practical steps to strengthen business continuity
Nov 25, 2025
In this episode, Brad Henske, a business continuity and resilience leader at Carilion Clinic with over 25 years of experience, shares his expert insights on building effective resilience committees. He explains how to unify different disciplines like risk management and communications to achieve operational resilience. Key topics include defining committee scope, engaging partners, and the importance of aligning efforts with organizational goals. Brad's practical advice empowers listeners to start their own resilience initiatives and foster collaboration in their organizations.
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Differentiate Strategy From Tactics
- Operational resilience is strategic while business continuity is tactical.
- Align tactical plans to strategic resilience goals to drive enterprise outcomes.
Evolve Existing Governance
- Reuse and evolve existing governance structures rather than creating committees from scratch.
- Repurpose a BC steering committee into a risk and resilience committee with the right leaders.
Repurposing A Steering Committee
- Brad repurposed a business continuity steering committee into a risk and resilience committee.
- The new committee comprises VPs and SVPs and escalates major items to executive sponsors when needed.