Webinar: Campus Preparedness Checklist: Improving Student, Faculty and Visitor Safety
Date/Time: Thursday, November 10th, 2016, 2:00 PM (ET)/11:00 AM (PT)
Speaker: Dr. Steve Goldman, Professor Senior Lecturer, MIT and Suzanne Blake, Manager, Office of Emergency Management & Business Continuity, MIT
In recent years, college campuses have seen a number of devastating events from active shooters to severe weather. Unfortunately, many institutions lack the necessary preparedness strategies to ensure their campus community is ready, making them vulnerable, especially when they have large groups gathering (e.g. basketball games, festivals, etc.).
Join us on November 10th at 2 PM ET for an exclusive Expert Insights Webinar, Campus Preparedness Checklist: Improving Student, Faculty and Visitor Safety. You will hear from Dr. Steve Goldman, Professor Senior Lecturer, MIT and Suzanne Blake, Manager, Office of Emergency Management & Business Continuity, MIT and learn what strategies you need to put into place to make your campus population prepared if an event should happen. Topics that will be covered include:
- The importance of building preparedness strategies and “checklists”
- What events you should plan for
- What response teams to build
- Who needs to be communicated with during events
- What information do you need to share before, during and after an event
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DR. STEVEN B. GOLDMAN is an internationally recognized expert and consultant in Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis Communications. He has over 35 years experience in the various aspects of these disciplines, including program management, plan development, training, exercises, and response strategies. His background is comprehensive yet unique in that he has been a professional engineer, corporate spokesperson, manager of media relations, business continuity planner, crisis responder, consultant, and a Fortune 500 Company’s Global Business Continuity Program Manager. Steve has written or improved many corporation and government agency BCP, DRP, and crisis communications plans and procedures. He has trained all levels of response staff, from CEO’s on down. His specialty is realistic drills and exercises for clients worldwide. Steve also mentors BCP professionals to improve their programs and their careers.
SUZANNE BLAKE is the Manager of MIT’s Office of Emergency Management & Business Continuity, the mission of which is to create a professional, exemplary, comprehensive emergency management and business continuity program for MIT that perpetuates resiliency across all sectors of the Institute. Ms. Blake and her team do this through six mission areas: prepare, mitigate/prevent, respond, recover, continue, and communicate/coordinate. Prior to joining MIT, Ms. Blake was a Senior Emergency Management Consultant with Witt O’Brien’s, an emergency management consulting firm founded by former Director of FEMA James Lee Witt. Ms. Blake served as the company’s Higher Education Specialist, and spent six years traveling across the country assisting high education institutions with their emergency management and business continuity programs including plans, processes, procedures, training, exercises, and post-incident assessments. Prior to joining Witt O’Brien’s, Ms. Blake served as the Emergency Manager for the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). As the first individual in this position, she had the opportunity to spearhead a university emergency management program from its inception.