• Join your local chapter of a professional organization

    To my friends in the Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery industry, go join your local chapter of the Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP). Let’s talk about professional development and networking (even if you are sales or marketing) at the local…

  • The potential power of a Skip Level

    One of the best lessons I ever learned mid-career was the potential of the “Skip Level“. A skip level is a 1:1 with your manager’s manager. If you put it in a family tree, your manager is the parent, so…

  • Cohesity’s Five Steps to Cyber Resilience

    Cohesity had a huge day of announcements as part of its Catalyst 1 Data Summit, with the foundation being built on its Five Steps of Cyber Resilience. While every vendor, including Cohesity, wants to talk about ‘resilience’, they haven’t lost…

  • Wrap-up on Backup : Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2025

    One of my favorite conferences of the year is Disaster Recovery Journal. They do two per year in different parts of the US to enable Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Crisis Management leaders to learn not just from experts, but…