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Business Education Series: If Disaster Strikes, Will Your Business Be Ready?
"Up to 40% of businesses affected by a natural or man-made disaster never reopen," according to the Insurance Institute. Determining how your business and your employees will recover from an emergency is a vital step in ensuring your continuity.If employees are not prepared, they stay home, which hinders your business' ability to stay in business.Ensuring that your business is prepared for an emergency or a disaster is vital to your business' success. This workshop will provide:- Planning steps small- medium size businesses can take to protect their bottom line and continue to provide services despite any natural or man-made disaster.
- Steps employers and employees need to take to better prepare for sudden emergencies while at work.
- How to prepare you and your loved ones to ensure you are to attend to work duties in times of emergencies.
- How you and your business can become involved in on-going disaster programming.
About Our SpeakersGrelia Steele is the Community Outreach Manager for the Office of Emergency Management. In her role, she is responsible for managing and developing preparedness programing; increasing community resiliency and engagement; establishing and maintaining internal and external partnerships. She is an emergency management professional with over seven years of local emergency management and international experience; to include three jurisdictions in the National Capital Region and international work in Turkey, Haiti and Southeastern Europe.
Ms. Steele has focused her career in developing emergency preparedness programming to improve the preparedness culture across the globe. She holds two Bachelor Degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University in Homeland Security and Emergency Management and a second in Political Science. She also holds numerous local, state and federal certifications in Public Safety. She is a member of many professional organizations and national and local committees.Avery L. Church serves as the Continuity Program Manager for Fairfax County Government with more than 10 years of business continuity and continuity of government experience. He leads a team of more than 100 representatives from across Fairfax County Government to design, develop, implement, and maintain the county’s continuity capability.
For 6.5 years, he supported the Department of Energy’s Continuity Program Office, serving as the primary consultant and subject matter expert in the design, development, and execution of their continuity program. Additionally, Avery served as an emergency management consultant to the Department of Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, all in Washington DC.
Avery holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, both from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a certified Master Professional Continuity Practitioner through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.Business Education Series: If Disaste...Date and Time
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDTLocation
Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce
1886 Metro Center Drive, Suite 230
Reston, VA 20190Fees/Admission
Complimentary for Members
$15 Non-Members/GuestsContact Information
Jennifer Herzberg
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