Online

Risk Management Through Building Business Resilience

Join us for a Lifelong Learning livestream event where we discuss real world examples of disruptive events that have impacted organizations and the innovative solutions organizations have developed to help them circumvent threats and bounce back from catastrophic events.

Fees

Complimentary event.

Illustration - Boat Steering Through A Tumultuous Storm

In this session:

How can businesses take a proactive approach to developing resilience for an increasingly complex and uncertain future?

In our last livestream on this topic, we discussed the importance of building resilience on organizational, community, and societal levels and the impact of collaborative relationship-building and future-oriented policy. In this session, we take a deep dive into the complexities associated with disruptive threats, such as weather disasters and cyberattacks, and the complexities involved in shifting organizational prioritization of long-term success.

For this Lifelong Learning livestream moderated by Bryan Benjamin, Executive Director of The Ivey Academy, we’re joined by Laurel Austin, Associate Professor of Management Science. Over the course of an hour, we will discuss real world examples of disruptive events that have impacted organizations and the innovative solutions organizations have developed to help them circumvent threats and bounce back from catastrophic events.

Guests

Paul Carroll

Director of Operational Resilience and Business Continuity, Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets

Paul Carroll is the Director of Operational Resilience and Business Continuity for Scotiabank’s Global Banking and Markets. He is also the president of Pathﬁnder Leadership Associates (PLA) which provides experiential learning and development of leadership character.

He served 24 years in the Canadian Armed Forces including 12 years in Canada’s premiere counter-terrorism and special operations unit – Joint Task Force 2. He served as chief of operations, chief instructor and as surveillance and reconnaissance squadron commander providing intelligence support to various federal agencies.

His deployments to Afghanistan, Haiti, Africa, the Middle East and Bosnia have shaped his leadership philosophy which emphasizes humour, humanity and humility.

Paul holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and an undergraduate degree in English and Political Science from Carleton University. He is an Executive-in-Residence at the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership. He is also a former television and radio broadcaster.

He is a past president and advisor to The Blackstone Association, a non-for-proﬁt that supports special operations veterans and was a Director of Operations for a team that coordinated volunteer groups in Canada and Afghanistan during the emergency evacuation of persons-at-risk from Afghanistan in 2021.

He is married to Lisa Holzwarth and is the father of three adult children.

Georg Serentschy

Managing Partner, Serentschy Advisory Services GmnH

Georg advises C-level executives and top experts in the digital sector on strategic matters and global risks through the lens of geopolitics. His advisory work focuses on the resilience and security of digital systems, regulation & competition, spectrum policies, cybersecurity policies, and innovation.

When working with clients, Georg draws inspiration from the famous quote by John Maynard Keynes: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

Georg's professional career spans more than 40 years. It began in nuclear physics, after which he transitioned to industrial research and development in various high-tech sectors such as software development, solar energy, aerospace, and telecommunications. Following his career in industry, he joined Arthur D. Little, a strategy consulting firm. For over a decade, Georg then led the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications in Austria (RTR-GmbH). The highlight of his regulatory career was chairing and vice-chairing BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications). In 2014, Georg founded his consulting boutique, which focuses on advising the C-suite and contributing to boardroom discussions on critical challenges such as assessing global risks, developing mitigation strategies, artificial intelligence, spectrum policy, and traditional regulatory & competition issues. In parallel, he continues to collaborate with leading consultancies on a project basis in his areas of expertise.