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ISO 22301 Lead Implementer for Business Continuity Management

ISO 22301 Lead Implementer for Business Continuity Management

1 Weeks
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Course Content

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CityDatePriceStatus
Kuala LumpurMalaysia
September 18, 2026
€4,800
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GenevaSwitzerland
September 22, 2026
€4,900
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LondonUnited Kingdom
October 3, 2026
£4,800
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LisbonPortugal
October 21, 2026
€4,800
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IstanbulTurkey
October 23, 2026
€4,900
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DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
October 26, 2026
€5,100
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AmsterdamNetherlands
October 31, 2026
€4,900
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SingaporeSingapore
November 10, 2026
€5,100
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TunisTunis
November 24, 2026
€4,400
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ParisFrance
November 26, 2026
€5,200
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Course Information

Duration

1 Weeks

Category

CERTIFICATION COURSES

Level

Professional Level

Certificate

Included

INTRODUCTION

Organizations face disruptive events that can interrupt critical operations, damage stakeholder confidence, and create significant financial or reputational consequences. An effective business continuity management system helps organizations prepare for disruptions, maintain priority activities, and recover within acceptable timeframes. ISO 22301 provides internationally recognized requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving this management system. Successful implementation requires leadership commitment, structured planning, competent personnel, appropriate resources, and reliable operational controls. This course provides a comprehensive framework for leading implementation from initial assessment through ongoing improvement. Participants examine organizational context, interested-party expectations, business continuity objectives, and implementation responsibilities. They learn to conduct business impact analyses, assess disruption risks, select continuity strategies, and develop response procedures. Practical case studies help participants apply requirements across different industries, organizational structures, and operating environments. The program prepares professionals to establish a resilient, auditable, and sustainable business continuity management system.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:

  • Explain the principles and requirements of a business continuity management system.
  • Interpret continuity requirements from the perspective of a lead implementer.
  • Assess organizational context, interested parties, scope, and strategic continuity priorities.
  • Plan a structured business continuity management system implementation project.
  • Conduct business impact analyses and disruption risk assessments effectively.
  • Develop appropriate business continuity strategies, solutions, plans, and procedures.
  • Establish governance, competencies, communications, resources, and documented information.
  • Design exercise programs that validate continuity and recovery capabilities.
  • Evaluate system performance through monitoring, audits, reviews, and corrective actions.
  • Lead continual improvement and organizational preparation for independent certification.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:

  • Business continuity managers responsible for resilience programs, recovery arrangements, and continuity governance.
  • Risk managers integrating disruption risks with enterprise risk management and organizational priorities.
  • Compliance professionals supporting management systems, regulatory obligations, and certification readiness.
  • Emergency managers coordinating incident response, crisis escalation, recovery, and stakeholder communications.
  • Information technology continuity specialists managing system recovery, data availability, and technology resilience.
  • Operations managers responsible for maintaining critical products, services, facilities, and processes.
  • Internal auditors evaluating continuity controls, system performance, and corrective actions.
  • Consultants supporting organizations with continuity implementation, assessment, and improvement projects.
  • Senior professionals preparing to lead organizational continuity and resilience initiatives.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1: Business Continuity Principles and Implementation Preparation

  • Understanding business continuity management principles and organizational resilience.
  • Reviewing the structure and requirements of the standard.
  • Identifying organizational context and relevant interested parties.
  • Defining system scope, boundaries, and applicability.
  • Establishing leadership commitment and implementation governance.
  • Defining business continuity policy and strategic direction.
  • Assessing current practices through a gap analysis.
  • Planning implementation activities, resources, roles, and timelines.
  • Developing a structured implementation project plan.

Day 2: Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment

  • Identifying critical products, services, activities, and dependencies.
  • Establishing business impact analysis criteria and methodology.
  • Determining maximum tolerable disruption periods.
  • Defining recovery time and recovery point objectives.
  • Assessing financial, operational, legal, and reputational impacts.
  • Identifying internal and external disruption threats.
  • Evaluating vulnerabilities, likelihoods, and potential consequences.
  • Prioritizing activities according to continuity requirements.
  • Documenting analysis results and management recommendations.

Day 3: Continuity Strategies and Operational Procedures

  • Developing continuity strategies for critical activities and resources.
  • Selecting alternative facilities, personnel, technology, and suppliers.
  • Establishing incident response structures and escalation procedures.
  • Defining roles, authorities, responsibilities, and decision rights.
  • Developing business continuity plans and recovery procedures.
  • Establishing warning, notification, and communication arrangements.
  • Managing supply chain continuity and external dependencies.
  • Coordinating emergency response, crisis management, and recovery.
  • Maintaining controlled and accessible continuity documentation.

Day 4: Exercising, Monitoring, and Performance Evaluation

  • Developing exercise objectives, scenarios, schedules, and responsibilities.
  • Selecting discussion, simulation, technical, and operational exercises.
  • Conducting exercises safely and recording performance evidence.
  • Evaluating response effectiveness and recovery capabilities.
  • Establishing continuity performance indicators and monitoring methods.
  • Planning and conducting internal management system audits.
  • Reporting audit findings and identifying nonconformities.
  • Conducting management reviews and evaluating strategic suitability.
  • Managing corrective actions and improvement opportunities.

Day 5: Certification Readiness and Continual Improvement

  • Preparing the management system for certification assessment.
  • Reviewing mandatory and supporting documented information.
  • Evaluating implementation evidence and operational effectiveness.
  • Managing pre-assessment findings and remaining compliance gaps.
  • Supporting external audit activities and auditor communications.
  • Responding to findings and implementing corrective actions.
  • Embedding continuity awareness throughout organizational culture.
  • Integrating continuity with risk, security, and emergency management.
  • Developing a sustainable continual improvement roadmap.

COURSE DURATION

Duration: 1 Weeks

This intensive professional program is delivered over five training days and combines expert instruction, requirement interpretation, implementation exercises, business impact analysis workshops, risk assessment activities, continuity planning, scenario exercises, audit preparation, and certification readiness reviews. Each day addresses a distinct stage of implementation, enabling participants to progress from understanding requirements and planning the project to operating, evaluating, improving, and sustaining the management system.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

An internationally certified expert with extensive practical and consulting experience in business continuity management, organizational resilience, risk assessment, crisis management, emergency response, management system implementation, internal auditing, and certification readiness will deliver the program. The instructor combines international requirements with practical organizational applications and provides participants with proven implementation frameworks, analysis tools, planning templates, exercise methods, audit techniques, and improvement models.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Yes, it begins with essential principles before progressing to advanced leadership responsibilities.

CONCLUSION

ISO 22301 Lead Implementer for Business Continuity Management provides a structured pathway for establishing an effective and sustainable continuity management system. Participants gain the strategic, technical, and leadership capabilities required to guide implementation across an organization. The program strengthens their ability to assess impacts, manage disruption risks, develop recovery arrangements, and evaluate performance. It also prepares them to coordinate certification readiness and embed continual improvement. Graduates will be equipped to strengthen organizational resilience and protect critical operations during disruptive events.

ISO 22301 Lead Implementer for Business Continuity Management

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