BCI Awards Categories spotlight: Continuity and Resilience Professional (Private Sector)

The 'Continuity and Resilience Professional (Private Sector)' award recognises dedicated, experienced, and skilled professionals working in private sector organizations.

In the ever-evolving landscape of business continuity and resilience, your work in the private sector should not go unnoticed. The Continuity and Resilience Professional Award is a platform to acknowledge your contributions and the significant impact you’ve made. It is your chance to showcase your dedication, your achievements, and the innovative strategies you’ve implemented to enhance continuity and resilience capabilities.

Who Should Enter?

If you are a professional working in the private sector with a minimum of 2 years of experience in continuity and resilience and have made a significant impact in your organization, this award category is for you.

Why Enter?

This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your skills, dedication, and the positive impact you've had in your organization. Winning this award can significantly enhance your professional reputation and acknowledge your contribution to the field of continuity and resilience.

What Judges Are Looking For

Judges will be looking for evidence in the following areas, each with a maximum word count of 200:

1. Ethics and values: Provide an example of where you have had to defend your continuity/resilience beliefs and how you did it.
2. Leadership: Share an instance of your strengths and how you have used them to improve an organization’s continuity/resilience capabilities.
3. Working with others: Describe a situation where you met a group for the first time but managed to build and maintain a positive working relationship.
4. Thinking and innovating: Give an example of where you have had to think differently and use problem-solving strategies or a model to help find a suitable continuity/resilience solution.
5. The organizational environment: Explain how you overcame negative continuity/resilience culture to achieve your objectives.
6. Why you deserve this award: Make a case for why you deserve this award.
7. Organization testimonial: Provide a testimonial from your organization based on work undertaken within the last 12 months covering the impact you have made to increase continuity/resilience capability.

If you’re a professional who has been instrumental in driving resilience in the private sector, we urge you to submit a nomination by 3rd May 2024.

This category is available for all BCI Regional Awards, pick your region and submit your nomination:

• BCI Africa Awards
• BCI Americas Awards
• BCI APAC Awards
• BCI Europe Awards
• BCI India & South Asia Awards
• BCI Middle East Awards

Submit your nomination and let’s continue to shape the future of business continuity together.