Education & PAT Schedule

Name

COVID-19: Avoiding the Rough - Planning for What's Now and What's Next - Ask the Expert

Type

Webinar

Schedule

March 31, 2020 2:00:00 PM

Registration Deadline

March 31, 2020

# Registered

238

During this 60-minute 'Ask the Expert' webinar, international crisis management consultant and pandemic planning expert, Suzanne Bernier, will talk about and take questions on how and what golf professionals should be planning for and what to expect over the coming weeks and months, based on lessons learned from SARS, H1N1 and other infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. 

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SUZANNE BERNIER
PRESIDENT OF SB CRISIS CONSULTING
AUTHOR OF DISASTER HEROES
NAMED ‘CONTINUITY & RESILIENCE CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR - NORTH AMERICA’ BY THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY INSTITUTE (BCI) IN 2016

A former journalist and government press secretary, Suzanne is now an international, multi-certified, award-winning crisis management consultant, trainer, speaker and author, who has helped governments, communities and companies plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters for over twenty years. She was named 2016’s ‘Continuity & Resilience Consultant of the Year – North America’ by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), and had the honor of being a guest speaker at The White House during FEMA’s 2016 Individual & Community Preparedness Awards ceremony.
Throughout her career, Suzanne has been professionally and/or personally involved in helping communities plan, respond, rebuild or recover from numerous crises, including the San Bernardino and 9/11 terror attacks, Hurricane Katrina, SARS, the H1N1 pandemic, the 2003 Northeast Blackout, the 1998 “Ice Storm of the Century” in Eastern Canada, as well as numerous floods, fires, and severe storms.
In 2006, she developed Ontario’s first recognized Pandemic Plan for the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board, and led their internal response to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Following her work on infectious disease planning in Canada, she was commissioned by the United Nations Headquarters in 2008 to design and deliver their first-ever Pandemic Tabletop Exercise.
Suzanne is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), as well as a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) through the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI), a certified Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI), and a certified Crisis Management & Communications Professional (CMCP) through the International Consortium on Organizational Resilience (ICOR).
Suzanne’s critically-acclaimed book and podcast series, Disaster Heroes, tells the stories of ordinary men, women and children who have done extraordinary things to help respond, recover and rebuild following some of the world’s most significant modern disasters.