Executive Course on Global Resilience 2014

Geneva Centre for Security Policy Where knowledge meets experience

EXECUTIVE COURSE

1-5 JUNE 2015

EXECUTIVE COURSE ON GLOBAL RESILIENCE 5-day programme

Course Directors

Enhancing Global Resilience The course is designed to map the contemporary security environment as well as describe the most important emerging security challenges.

The objective of the course is to build greater understanding among corporate business leaders, policymakers and policy practitioners in how to shape and develop the best responses to mitigate their impacts.

Dr Gustav Lindstrom Head, Emerging Security Challenges Programme, GCSP Former Senior Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University.

Key benefits for you The course will enable you to: • Acquire knowledge about the contemporary and future global security challenges; • Develop perspectives on the evolution of security issues and their inter-linkages across the threat spectrum; • Enhance skills to map and respond cooperatively and effectively to contemporary security challenges, based on multilateral and multicultural teamwork; and

Mr Brett Lovegrove Chief Executive of the City Security and Resilience Network (CSARN); former Head of Counter Terrorism for City of London Police; Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee in the London Chamber of Commerce; M.A. in Criminal Justice and Justice from Reading University

• Access an extensive network of CSARN business and government leaders as well as GCSP alumni.

Faculty profiles The teaching staff includes CSARN and GCSP’s own international team composed of academics and practitioners with broad experience in security policy, diplomacy and/or military affairs, as well as high-level guest speakers (government officials, representatives from international corporations, academics and researchers).

Participant profile This course is targeted to Chief Information Officers, the security services, government representatives, business continuity managers, crisis response leaders and asset recovery specialists.

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Why you should attend

Alumni community

This course provides insights on evolving global security challenges; improves the ability to increase corporate resiliency and builds greater organisational resiliency. It also defines ways to mitigate impacts and build effective continuity strategies within government and within businesses. Participants will acquire knowledge and skills, as well as develop connections that empower them to have strategic impact in their countries, organisations and businesses.

Upon completion of the course, you become part of the expanding GCSP alumni network and enjoy continued access to our events. Security policy conferences enable current and past participants to meet, debate policy issues and share ideas and experiences in an informal setting.

Admission Course focus Day 1: Global Backdrop

Day 4: Crisis Leadership in Action

• Security implications of emerging technologies • Nexus of terror and crime • Countering violent extremism (CVE)

• Mapping and exploring global impact issues within the group • Defining organisational resilience

• What happens when leaders are immersed in a crisis and how are they expected to respond?

• Successful teamwork on the day (personal, team, organisation, multiagency) • What binds a team together?

• Leadership and crisis communications Building a media response • Exercise supported by video case studies

Day 3: The Criticality of Leadership in Preparing for Disaster

Day 5: Leading Recovery and Sustainability

• What really is ‘business continuity’?

• Developing the right team before an all hazard disaster strikes • The importance of testing, exercising and simulation • Preparing and succession planning for leadership • Embedding a culture of ethics and compliance

• Knowing how to ‘manage down’ resources • Post-event media engagement • Reputational management/recovery • Engaging the workforce as part of the recovery in the ‘new normality’ • Re-setting organisational strategy • Exercise – applying and testing the delegates when responding to a spontaneous event (assassination, hijacking, terrorist attack, pandemic) • Conclusions and wrap-up

Day 2: Strategic Trends and Future Analysis

For further details about the course and the application process, please contact: tracey.hough@csarn.org +44 (0) 1737 249 989 Application deadline: 11 May 2015 Tuition fees: Corporate delegates: £1500 (plus VAT) Public sector and SME delegates: £1000 (plus VAT) Language requirements: The course will be held in English.

Venue: Canning House 14/15 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8PS United Kingdom www.csarn.org www.gcsp.ch Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

Course design

GCSP

This executive course is based on the combination of three reinforcing pillars: the transfer of knowledge, leadership and decision-making skills as well as building resilience for business continuity in crisis management.

The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation with 45 member states from across the globe that provides forward-thinking and innovative solutions for leaders and policymakers concerned with international affairs and security in today’s complex, globalised world.

CSARN City Security and Resilience Networks (CSARN) is the leading UK based business security and resilience membership network. Bringing together public and private sector leaders, as a not-for-profit enterprise. CSARN is an awardwinning business security and staff safety advisory service. We achieve this through providing business intelligence, educational networking events and training.