COVID 19 has in a very short time changed the way we do business and think about risk, resilience, and disaster planning.
The COVID-19 Pandemic caught many businesses by surprise. We were ill-prepared and left scrambling to adapt our business model, processes, and maintain liquidity to survive. The lessons learned remind us that risk management thinking cannot be forgotten. In this course, you will learn 5 such lessons that you should incorporate into your disaster recovery plans for the next crisis. We may not know for certain when the next crisis will hit us, but we do know for certain it will.
Field of Study: Business Management & Organization
CPA, CA Leadership
Blair is a seven-time CFO, a director, and an educator at Executive Finance Partners - a professional development and executive coaching firm for financial professionals and executives. He also serves as a corporate director and audit committee chair of publicly listed companies: Terravest Industries and Clarke Inc. He is also the Board Treasurer of the Devour Food & Film Festival and serves on various committees of CPA Nova Scotia. Blair is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.
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