We offer a mix of in-person and online, instructor-led courses. Search courses for more information.
See a summary of all our training options one page. All courses are currently available online.
The leader in business continuity education and certification across many industries, DRI International offers team training designed to fit the needs of every organization, from private corporations to the public sector and everywhere in-between.
DRI International offers colleges and universities the opportunity to familiarize their students with information on business continuity professions and certifications recognized by private and public sector organizations around the world.
Certification is a two-part process; verification of knowledge and confirmation of experience.
A DRI International certification is the most widely recognized and respected business continuity certification in the world. DRI only certifies professionals that have demonstrated both knowledge and experience in the business continuity and/or disaster recovery profession.
Learn more about how to unlock your DRI digital badge and display your DRI certification to enhance your online professional profile today.
Maintaining your DRI International certification carries two requirements; an annual maintenance fee as well as Continuing Education Activity Points (CEAP).
Be a part of the premier business continuity conference. Save the date for DRI2026 in Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. 22-25, 2026. Check back for more information.
We speak at numerous industry events around the globe and engage with our community in a variety of ways. Find out where you can meet DRI at these upcoming events.
Through committees and other initiatives, we publish research and insights about the profession. Explore our library and other resources.
DRI International webinars cover vital resilience issues, engaging and informing professionals in the field. See what's coming up next and view previously broadcast presentations here.
Learn how to hire the right business continuity professionals that will enable your organization to withstand any crisis and come through even stronger with the DRI Hiring Guide. Download now.
BCM is a holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience.
We reach out and engage as many audiences as possible using broad media coverage to provide a forum for discussion. We serve as a trusted resource to other professions and the general public.
We offer a mix of in-person and online, instructor-led courses. Search courses for more information.
See a summary of all our training options one page. All courses are currently available online.
The leader in business continuity education and certification across many industries, DRI International offers team training designed to fit the needs of every organization, from private corporations to the public sector and everywhere in-between.
DRI International offers colleges and universities the opportunity to familiarize their students with information on business continuity professions and certifications recognized by private and public sector organizations around the world.
Certification is a two-part process; verification of knowledge and confirmation of experience.
A DRI International certification is the most widely recognized and respected business continuity certification in the world. DRI only certifies professionals that have demonstrated both knowledge and experience in the business continuity and/or disaster recovery profession.
Learn more about how to unlock your DRI digital badge and display your DRI certification to enhance your online professional profile today.
Maintaining your DRI International certification carries two requirements; an annual maintenance fee as well as Continuing Education Activity Points (CEAP).
Be a part of the premier business continuity conference. Save the date for DRI2026 in Jacksonville, Florida , Feb. 22-25, 2026. Check back for more information.
We speak at numerous industry events around the globe and engage with our community in a variety of ways. Find out where you can meet DRI.
Through committees and other initiatives, we publish research and insights about the profession. Explore our library and other resources.
DRI International webinars cover vital resilience issues, engaging and informing professionals in the field. See what's coming up next and view previously broadcast presentations here.
Learn how to hire the right business continuity professionals that will enable your organization to withstand any crisis and come through even stronger with the DRI Hiring Guide. Download now.
BCM is a holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience.
We reach out and engage as many audiences as possible using broad media coverage to provide a forum for discussion. We serve as a trusted resource to other professions and the general public.
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Ask Betsy! Women in BCM Webinar’s Betsy Sayers on Keeping the Momentum Going
During our recent Women in BCM – Ask Betsy webinar, we encouraged you to send in your burning questions for our presenter, BCM veteran Betsy Sayers, MBCP, and you delivered! We’re pleased to present the next installment in a continuing Q&A series.
Q: What do you recommend for keeping the momentum going in building your BC Program? How do you prevent people from saying BC is done once a plan is built and motivate them to take next steps to continue maturing the program?
Betsy: Thanks for this great question! If you are in an entity subject to regulatory requirements, it’s fairly easy to point to the requirement for at least annual updates and exercises, and your responsibility as program owner to ensure you are compliant. It’s tougher if you are not and your Board of Directors also don’t understand the need.
I actually discovered (when told by a very dear friend of mine) that I was contributing to this challenge – yikes! That hurt!
For example:
I spent all my time focused on getting the naysayers to finish their plan instead of providing support and guidance to those who finished their plan last year and were actually interested in doing an exercise of it this year.
I started to be a lot more successful at this after I changed my own personal terminology and approach. I always took advantage of any opportunity to explain to everyone:
Assuming you have not made the same mistake outlined above that I and many others have made, annual exercises are the only way I have found to keep the momentum going. Great that we now have a plan – let’s exercise it. A plan that is out of date and has never been exercised is not an acceptable negligence defense to any judicial authority that I’m aware of.
Of course there will be those who refuse to exercise. This is when we need to remember we own the “program” not the “content.” As program owner you are responsible under Professional Practice #1 for “leading the steering committee in driving the implementation of objectives, program structure, and critical success factors. Addressing alignment with existing organizational policies and maintaining consistent processes.”
I always found this was best achieved through providing the steering committee with a dashboard status report using a form of stop-light reporting:
All questions from the Steering Committee related to red, orange or yellow status reports were forwarded to the VP for that service. Suddenly literally overnight service owners were beating down my door to do this year’s exercise and update their plans.
NOTE: You must create the first dashboard and send it to service owners for validation well in advance of presenting to your steering committee so they can provide you with their “real status” (e.g., “This morning after seeing this dashboard, we decided to exercise this year and red is now yellow – here’s our exercise date”). DOING THIS LITERALLY CHANGED MY LIFE!
Hope this is helpful… if you attend DRI2019 in Las Vegas, don’t hesitate to say hello!
Take care,
Betsy
And don’t forget to download Betsy’s list of handy phrases from the DRI Resource Library!