- Date
- October 8, 2026
- Time
- 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM (ET)
- Duration
- 50 minutes
- Format
- Live virtual webinar
- Platform
- Zoom
- Presenter
- Ted Robinson
- Guest Speaker
- Ashley Harrigan
- Registration Deadline
- October 6, 2026
Resilience Webinar Series
Nexus Pioneer Webinar Series: From Preparedness to Resilience
Practical Conversations for Strengthening Emergency Preparedness, Operational Readiness, and Program Resilience.
The Nexus Pioneer Webinar Series: From Preparedness to Resilience explores the practical steps organizations can take to strengthen emergency preparedness, operational readiness, and resilience.
Each session brings together critical planning, assessment, training, exercise, and improvement practices to help preparedness professionals identify gaps, strengthen coordination, and build greater confidence in their ability to respond, recover, and continue operating through disruption.
Live virtual format
Practical takeaways
Preparedness-focused
Why This Series Matters
Why Organizational Resilience Requires a Connected Approach
Organizations rely on emergency plans, continuity programs, risk assessments, training, exercises, corrective actions, and resource readiness to prepare for disruption. Yet these efforts are often developed, reviewed, and reported separately.
That fragmentation can make it difficult for leaders to determine whether the organization is truly prepared, where vulnerabilities remain, and which improvements should receive priority.
The Nexus Pioneer Resilience Webinar Series examines how these familiar preparedness activities work together. Each webinar helps participants move beyond isolated documents and activities toward a more connected, evidence-informed understanding of organizational resilience.
Webinar Series Overview
Purpose. The Nexus Pioneer Resilience Webinar Series is a six-session, application-oriented learning experience designed to help leaders and practitioners turn disconnected preparedness data into integrated evidence that supports actionable readiness decisions.
Core premise. Plans are necessary, but no single plan, assessment, exercise, training record, or corrective-action product can by itself demonstrate resilience. A more defensible picture emerges when evidence of capability, performance, risk, capacity, and improvement is examined together.
Series experience. Each webinar will last approximately 50 minutes and include a short Decision Under Pressure discussion, a Resilience Pulse check, a practitioner perspective, one free practical takeaway tool, and one closing question for participants to think about from their organizations perspective. Sessions are cumulative but designed to stand alone. Together they demonstrate: Plan → Capability → Evidence → Risk → Improvement → Demonstrated Resilience.
Webinar Series Topics
- Webinar 1: Resilience Is More Than a Plan
- Webinar 2: From Plans to Operational Capability
- Webinar 3: Testing Readiness: What the Evidence Shows
- Webinar 4: Understanding Resilience Risk and Priority
- Webinar 5: Turning Lessons Into Resilience Gains
- Webinar 6: Proving Readiness: Building the Resilience Picture
Featured Webinar
Webinar 1: Resilience Is More Than a Plan
Session Description
Resilience is more than having plans, policies, assessments, and preparedness products. It depends on whether responsibility is clearly owned, leaders have the authority to act, critical functions are connected across the organization, and people, resources, partners, and systems can perform under disruption.
Webinar 1 examines resilience through three connected lenses: governance, operational capability, and evidence.
Participants will explore:
- How resilience responsibilities are organized, connected, and sustained across an organization or jurisdiction.
- Where ownership, authority, accountability, or coordination may be unclear.
- Why plans document intent but do not by themselves demonstrate operational capability.
- How plans, risk information, exercises, incident experience, resources, dependencies, and corrective actions contribute to a connected resilience picture.
- How leaders can distinguish what is documented, what has been demonstrated, what remains assumed or uncertain, and what should be validated or improved next.
Webinar 1 asks: Is resilience clearly owned, operationally supported, and backed by evidence leaders can use?
Through a practitioner perspective, a Decision Under Pressure discussion, and practical participant reflection, the session will help participants begin connecting governance, preparedness activities, capability, and evidence into a more comprehensive and defensible understanding of organizational resilience.
Guest Speaker
Ashley Harrigan, M.A.
Resilience Strategist & Senior Consultant
Ashley Harrigan is a nationally recognized resilience strategist and operations leader with more than 15 years of experience advancing climate resilience, critical infrastructure protection, emergency management, and strategic communications across the federal government, communities, and the private sector.
Her work focuses on helping organizations strengthen their ability to prepare for, withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruption. She is also founder and director of Fair Wins Resilience, a mission-driven initiative focused on building community adaptive capacity and long-term resilience.
Who Should Attend
Built for professionals responsible for preparedness, response, continuity, resilience, safety, planning, compliance, or risk reduction.
Registration Form
Register for the Nexus Pioneer Webinar Series
Complete the form to reserve your spot. After submitting your registration, you will receive confirmation details and webinar access information.
Space may be limited. Early registration is encouraged to ensure access to the live session and follow-up materials.
Webinar Materials and Handouts
Participant tools that help teams capture takeaways and apply webinar concepts.
Webinar Participant Workbook
Capture key takeaways, discussion points, self-assessment notes, and follow-up actions.
Availability: Provided to registered participants.
Webinar Slide Handout
The webinar slide brief will be available for download no later than 24 hours after the conclusion of each webinar session.
Availability: Posted following each webinar.
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