Guest Speaker: award winning
author Betty Kildow
Betty’ Bio:
For the past
twenty years Betty has specialized business
continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency
management consulting. She became a Certified
Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with the
Disaster Recovery Institute International in
1998 and was named a Fellow of the Business
Continuity Institute (FBCI) in 2002.
She has worked with luxury goods companies
(wholesale and retail), professional
associations, utility companies, publishing
companies, high-tech companies, manufacturers,
insurance companies, and government agencies,
working with them to address the challenges that
face all types of organizations in developing
and maintaining business continuity programs.
She is frequently called upon as a speaker for
conferences and meetings and also develop and
deliver business continuity workshops and
training.
Long a strong advocate of fully including the
supply chain in business continuity planning,
her book, "A Supply Chain Management Guide to
Business Continuity" (AMACOM Publishing 2011),
provides a comprehensive step-by-step approach
to managing risk that integrates supply chain
management and enterprise business continuity.
Other writing includes “Front Desk Security and
Safety: An On-the-Job Guide to Handling
Emergencies, Threats, and Unexpected Situations”
(AMACOM) and two chapters of the “PSI Handbook
of Business Security” (Greenwood Publishing), as
well as articles for publications in North
America, Asia, and Europe.
