The Business Resilience Programme

One crisis exposes every weakness you knew about and several you did not. This two-day programme is the most comprehensive resilience build available for business leaders who want to stop reacting to disruption and start being genuinely prepared for it. Day 1 builds the foundation: a clear-eyed assessment of your risk landscape, a real business continuity plan, and a financial resilience structure that holds under pressure. Day 2 builds the capability: crisis communication that maintains trust, team leadership under extreme stress, and a 90-day implementation roadmap that turns everything learned into a board-ready resilience plan. Every participant leaves with a complete, tested, and immediately usable resilience plan for their real business.

  • Classroom (group of 3-15)
  • Certificate upon completion
  • 8 Hours (2 days)
  • English
Dubai
AED 3499
The Business Resilience Programme
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What will you learn?

  • Complete a full risk landscape assessment for your real business and know exactly where your biggest vulnerabilities are before the next disruption reveals them.
  • Build a business continuity plan that reflects how your organisation actually works, not a generic template that falls apart under pressure.
  • Design a financial resilience structure that gives your business real options when conditions deteriorate fast.
  • Lead your team through a crisis with clarity and confidence using communication frameworks that maintain trust when uncertainty is at its highest.
  • Leave with a complete, board-ready resilience plan covering risk, continuity, finance, communication, and a 90-day implementation roadmap.

Prerequisites

Participants should have some experience in business, product management, or leadership roles.

Course Curriculum

8h total length

Day 1 – Resilience Architecture

Risk Landscape Assessment

  • Map your full risk landscape across strategic, operational, financial, and reputational dimensions using a structured identification process.

  • Prioritise your risks by genuine likelihood and impact rather than by which ones feel most familiar or most recently discussed.

  • Identify your three highest-exposure risks and build a clear picture of the cascade effects each one would trigger.

  • Distinguish between risks you can control, risks you can mitigate, and risks you can only prepare to absorb.

Hands-On Exercise: Participants complete a full risk landscape map for their own business and identify their three highest-priority risks with cascade analysis.

Business Continuity Plan design

  • Map your critical processes and assign maximum tolerable downtime to each so recovery priorities are clear before a crisis begins.

  • Identify your hidden dependencies and single points of failure that a standard BCP would miss.

  • Build a recovery sequence that prioritises the right processes in the right order based on your specific business architecture.

  • Design a BCP that is short enough to be read and specific enough to be followed under pressure.

Hands-On Exercise: Participants build the core of their BCP including critical process map, dependency analysis, and recovery sequence for their real business.

Financial Resilience Structure

  • Assess your current financial resilience across revenue diversity, cost flexibility, cash reserves, and financing strategy.

  • Identify the single financial structural change that would most increase your resilience given your current situation.

  • Build a cash reserve target and accumulation plan that is realistic and protected from operational pressure.

  • Design a financing strategy that includes pre-arranged facilities and clear drawdown triggers before you need them

Hands-On Exercise: Participants complete their Financial Resilience Scorecard and identify their highest-priority structural action for the 90-day implementation roadmap.

Day 2 – Crisis Response & Leadership

Crisis Communication

  • Apply a crisis communication framework that prioritises honesty, speed, and consistency over perfection and completeness.

  • Identify your key stakeholder groups and design tailored communication approaches for each one before a crisis forces you to improvise.

  • Avoid the three communication mistakes that destroy trust in a crisis even when the underlying response is competent.

  • Build a crisis communication template for your business that can be activated and adapted in under 30 minutes.

Hands-On Exercise: Participants draft a crisis communication response to a live scenario affecting their own business type and stress-test it against stakeholder expectations.

Leading your team through a crisis

  • Identify the specific leadership behaviours that build team stability and maintain performance under extreme uncertainty.

  • Manage the emotional and psychological impact of a crisis on your team without minimising the reality or amplifying the fear.

  • Make decisions and communicate direction clearly when information is incomplete and the team is looking for certainty you do not yet have.

  • Recognise the early signs of team breakdown under crisis conditions and intervene before performance collapses

Hands-On Exercise: Participants work through a live crisis leadership scenario in pairs, practising the key communication and decision-making behaviours under simulated pressure.

The 90-Day Resilience Implementation Roadmap

  • Integrate the outputs from all five previous modules into a single coherent resilience plan with clear priorities and dependencies.

  • Build a 90-day implementation roadmap with specific milestones, owners, and decision points that reflects the real capacity of your organisation.

  • Identify the three resilience actions that will deliver the most impact in the first 30 days and sequence them for immediate execution.

  • Present your resilience plan in a format that builds board and leadership confidence rather than triggering more questions than it answers.

Hands-On Exercise: Participants complete their full board-ready resilience plan and 90-day implementation roadmap, ready to present to their leadership team the following week.

Learn from an Expert in UX/UI Design

Dr Imo Enang is a broad-skilled academic & business executive with 17 years of working experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has served in different functional capacities across Academia, Management Consulting, Banking, FMCG, Project Management & Non- Profit spaces with about 12 years in P&G Middle East and Africa.

Dr. Imo Enang

Dr. Imo Enang

Academic& Business executive

  • Ex-P&G
  • Professor at Queen Mary University

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