Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Masterclass
A Business Continuity Management System you can implement, test and defend — from Business Impact Analysis to incident response, recovery objectives and restoration.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
Upcoming sessions
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Business disruption is not an outside chance — it is the operating condition, driven by internal and external threats no organisation fully controls. What separates the resilient from the exposed is a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) that has been implemented, tested and improved before the incident, not drafted during it. This masterclass builds that capability end by end: identifying mission-critical continuity needs and sources of risk, performing Business Impact Analysis to isolate priorities and mission-critical assets, chartering an incident response team, and setting recovery time objectives with the business recovery plans to meet them. The cohort works through coordinating a response, restoring critical assets after a disaster, and communicating accurately and at speed.
What you will do
Who attends
- Business continuity and disaster recovery managers
- Risk, resilience and crisis management professionals
- IT and operations leaders who own recovery plans
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Continuity needs and risk
- Identifying mission-critical continuity needs
- Defining sources of risk, internal and external
- Identifying and defining emergencies
II.The BCMS
- Implementing a Business Continuity Management System
- Setting BCM in the organisational context
- Prevention and restoration as one system
III.Impact analysis and planning
- Business Impact Analysis: priorities and mission-critical assets
- Recovery time objectives and business recovery plans
- Building the disaster recovery plan with key personnel and stakeholders
IV.Response, testing, improvement
- Coordinating the response following an incident
- Testing the continuity and disaster recovery programme
- Restoring critical assets and communicating at speed
Frequently asked
Are these programmes suitable for board members?
They are designed for them. The governance curriculum addresses the duties directors personally carry — risk-committee oversight, ESG accountability, the questions to put to management. Participants leave able to interrogate a board pack, structure committee work, and document the oversight a regulator expects to see.
What makes the strategy programmes different from conventional corporate training?
Faculty are senior practitioners who have carried the decisions themselves — never career presenters. Strategy is worked as decisions with owners and consequences, not frameworks on slides: participants build positions on their own institution’s questions and defend them in front of the room.
Where can I find the programme fee?
BIZENIUS does not publish a rate card. Request the brochure or apply for a seat, and a senior practitioner replies within one business day with the brochure and a fee shaped to your format, location and any tailoring.
What formats do governance programmes run in?
Classroom, live virtual and hybrid, in English and French. Boards frequently commission private in-house sessions, tailored to their own charter, committee structure and regulatory context.
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In their words
Knowledge transfer, emphasised throughout
“We worked with BIZENIUS for our Fresh Graduates Programme — they are simply amazing. Knowledge transfer and practical learning were emphasised throughout.”
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From the Mandate Record
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Recovery and resolution plans that stood up to the supervisor — twice
A recovery plan is not a document. It is an argument the board must win under stress.
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The Capability Arc™
Fix it · Advisory
Recovery & Resolution Planning
A credible, executable recovery and resolution plan.
Automate it · Smart IT
Toolkits & Accelerators
Proven toolkits that shorten the build.
Learning is one point on the Capability Arc. Many institutions pair this programme with the advisory engagement — and automate what the framework demands.
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Take the brochure with you.
One request — the full agenda, the faculty and the next cohort dates, sent personally by the admissions team.