Purpose and Impact

Why is Business Resilience critical for organizations?

The business landscape is defined by rapid change and innovation. With that uncertainty comes risk: organizations now face a growing probability of cybersecurity breaches, fraud, climate events, market volatility, geopolitical turmoil, and more. Building and sustaining resilience within an organization has never been more crucial. Yet the strategic horizon is shrinking – many leaders are increasingly focused on short-term gains that risk long-term growth.

Building Business Resilience is an essential learning experience for future-oriented leaders in any sector. Designed to accelerate leadership foresight and decision-making to identify and reinforce weak points and to execute robustly under pressure, this intensive program equips you with the insight, frameworks, and practices to proactively manage risk and ensure your organization can recover from any disruption. With the confidence and capability to navigate unexpected challenges, you’ll also be ready to help your organization capitalize on new opportunities.

Working with top Ivey Business School faculty and peers from across industries, you will develop the knowledge and habits to drive immediate impact in your team or organization. Overcome barriers to inertia, create robust action plans, communicate effectively under fire, and emerge a more responsive, responsible leader.

Participant Profile

Who contributes to Business Resilience?

• Visionaries in Any Sector: If you're a leader with an eye on the future, whether you’re in finance, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, or any other industry, this program is designed for you.
• Strategic Thinkers: Leaders who recognize the importance of balancing short-term achievements with long-term sustainability will gain invaluable tools to enhance their strategic foresight.
• Executive Decision-Makers: This program will sharpen your skills if you regularly make high-stakes decisions and need to improve your ability under pressure.
• Front Line Managers: Those responsible for identifying and mitigating organizational risks will benefit from advanced frameworks and practical insights.
• Change Agents: Leaders driving transformation must foster a culture of resilience and agility within their teams.
• Innovation Leaders: Those looking to overcome organizational inertia and implement robust action plans to withstand and thrive amidst disruption.

Are you a fit for Leading Business Resilience?

The Building Business Resilience program is for you if you’re committed to strengthening your organization’s resilience and ensuring it can weather any storm. Join a diverse group of peers and thought leaders from various industries and build a network of resilient thinkers to help drive long-term impact in your organization.

Learning Outcomes

What are the key elements of Business Resilience?

By the end of the Building Business Resilience program, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to enhance your organization's resilience and effectively navigate through crises. Here’s what you can expect to achieve:

Understanding the Landscape of Risk

• Explain the business case for resilience. Articulate what resilience means in a business context and why it is a critical investment for any organization in today’s volatile environment.
• Identify and anticipate emergent threats. Gain familiarity with various internal and external threats, including accidental, intentional, natural, and intentional external threats.

Building Organizational Resilience

• Prioritize risks. Learn methods to prioritize which threats to focus on and determine where to invest resources to enhance resilience.
• Implement resilience frameworks. Develop and use robust frameworks and approaches to build and sustain organizational resilience.
• Engage with your community. Understand how to effectively engage with stakeholders inside and outside your organization to prepare a collective response to threats.
• Mitigate damage by planning proactively. Familiarize yourself with frameworks that guide efforts to minimize damage when risks materialize.
• Ask the right questions to make careful and deliberate tradeoff decisions that balance the importance of short-term financial results against investment in long-term resilience.

Activating Recovery Plans

• Plan for recovery. Create comprehensive action plans that can be quickly activated to restore normal operations after a disruption.
• Communicate under pressure. Understand the complexities of communicating with stakeholders during a crisis and learn strategies to improve the effectiveness of these communications.
• Make effective decisions in a crisis. Identify common decision biases and challenges in crises and acquire techniques to overcome these issues.

By achieving these learning outcomes, you will be well-prepared to lead your organization through uncertainty, safeguard against potential threats, and capitalize on new opportunities, ensuring long-term resilience and success.

Return on Investment

Fees

$5,990 CAD

The program fee includes program materials, breakfast, and lunch; participants are responsible for accommodations and meals outside of program hours. Program fees are tax-exempt.

Applications must be submitted no later than 14 days before the start of the program.

FAQs

What funding resources are available?

Organizations and participants in Canada may benefit from the Canada Job Grant or the Canada Training Credit to offset a portion of program fees. Visit our Funding Resources page to learn more.

Will the sessions be lecture-based?

At Ivey, we embrace learning as an interactive experience. Rather than lecturing, your faculty facilitators will guide the group through hands-on activities, discussions, cases, simulations, and more. To get the most value from your learning experience, you should expect to be present and engaged in class sessions. To learn more, click here to visit our Learning Experience page.

How should I prepare before attending the program?

Our program managers will contact all registered participants prior to the program start date with instructions to join our online Learning Management System. Once logged in, you will be able to create a class profile, view other participants' profiles, and access a list of assigned pre-reading, cases, and activities. Plan to review and complete preparation work in advance of each class session.