Career spotlight: The Chief Security Officer
Pamela Larson, Everbridge CSO, shares her path from the Secret Service to resilience roles, discussing AI’s role, HR integration, collaboration, and vulnerable leadership.
Discover Resilience: The Podcast
Episode 5
Career spotlight: The Chief Security Officer
Shay and Casey welcome Pamela Larson to discuss modern resilience leadership, balancing AI with empathy, and breaking down silos across HR, IT, and Cyber.
Episode 4
Building a resilience committee: Practical steps to strengthen business continuity
Brad Henske outlines how a Risk & Resilience Committee brings risk, ITDR, communications, and BC together, helping Shay and Casey spotlight practical first steps toward operational resilience.
Episode 3
Empowering collaboration during crisis
Shay and Casey speak with James Podlucky about reducing bottlenecks, clarifying roles, and building strong relationships and realistic training habits before a crisis hits.
Episode 2
Buy-in beyond the boardroom: Building and maintaining SME engagement
April Renner joins Shay and Casey to share how to overcome competing priorities and resistance and turn SMEs into committed partners who strengthen resilience programs.
Building a resilience committee: Practical steps to strengthen business continuity
Casey and Shay kick off with festive banter before welcoming Brad Henske of Carilion Clinic to unpack how a Risk & Resilience Committee unites risk, ITDR, emergency/crisis communications, and BC to achieve operational resilience. He covers committee scope, mission alignment, and collaboration via curiosity, regular cross-functional touchpoints, and shared accountability. The episode distinguishes strategic resilience goals from tactical BC execution and stresses first steps: define the model, engage partners, begin the work.
Empowering collaboration during crisis
Hosts Casey and Shay are joined by James Podlucky from Everbridge who brings a unique perspective as a former Certified Emergency Manager. James discusses the realities of incident command, from common pitfalls like information bottlenecks and role confusion to the importance of leaving ego at the door. He provides a blueprint for success, highlighting the need to build relationships before disasters strike and conduct realistic training.
Buy-in beyond the boardroom: Building and maintaining SME engagement
Hosts Casey and Shay are joined by April Renner, Business Continuity Manager at Burns & McDonnell, who brings MBCP and CCRP credentials to the conversation. April shares her proactive strategies for overcoming common hurdles like competing priorities and active resistance, showing how to transform SMEs from participants into true program champions.
From silos to synergy: The evolution of resilience
Hosts Shay and Casey kick off by pulling back the curtain on why this podcast exists and where resilience is headed. Guest Sean McDevitt, Director of Product Marketing at Everbridge, joins to trace the evolution of global security—from “guards and gates” to tech-enabled, duty-of-care–driven operations—and how it intersects with BCDR’s roots in IT disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.
Meet the hosts
Shay Bond and Casey Daghigh are longtime colleagues, collaborators, and friends with close to three decades of combined experience in resilience. Together, they bring practical insight, curiosity, and a human touch to Discover Resilience, helping teams learn, improve and be ready for what comes next.
