Course Details
Duration: AEDT (UTC+11:00)
2:00pm - 5:30pm - Wednesday 29 October 2025
Venue:
Online
Costs:
RMIA Members $495.00 (incl GST)
Non-Members $715.00 (incl GST)
CPD Points: 4
About The Course
Embedding Resilience: Essentials of Training, Awareness & Exercising is a practical, insight-rich program designed to help risk professionals embed continuity and resilience practices across all levels of their organisation. Drawing on global standards such as ISO 22301 and the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG), this course explores how to design and deliver effective training, build awareness that resonates, and run exercises that prepare your teams for disruption.
Topics Covered
What ISO 22301 and BCI GPG say about training, awareness and exercising
How to tailor continuity learning for executives, team leaders, and frontline staff
How to make awareness campaigns memorable and relevant
Types of exercises — from quick wins to full simulations — and how to get started
How to track, evaluate, and improve your training and exercising efforts
About the Trainers
Helen Lipscombe - Helen is an expert resilience consultant with over 20 years of international experience. She specialises in business resilience, including risk management, crisis management, and business continuity. She has worked with public and private organizations, offering consultancy and strategic guidance to strengthen their resilience frameworks.
As a qualified trainer, Helen has designed and delivered comprehensive training programmes both internally and externally, equipping teams with the skills needed for business continuity and organisational resilience.
Helen is also a dedicated mentor for the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), where she supports individuals at various stages of their careers in developing their expertise in business continuity and resilience.
A passionate advocate for embedding resilience into organisational culture, she has spoken at events like BCI World and BCI Education Week. Additionally, Helen contributed to the revision of the BCI Good Practice Guide version 7.0, focusing on the Embracing Business Continuity chapter.
Jack Salkild - Jack is a resilience and emergency management consultant with deep operational and strategic experience across government and healthcare sectors. He specialises in business resilience, including emergency response, crisis management, governance, and business continuity. He has worked with multiple New South Wales government agencies, including Transport for NSW and the NSW Reconstruction Authority, delivering expertise on complex disaster projects and resilience frameworks.
With a background as an Intensive Care Paramedic and Clinical Educator at NSW Ambulance, Jack has led major incident response training, developed high-fidelity simulations, and coordinated multi-agency operational readiness programs. His work in government has included delivering structured governance and capability uplift initiatives for disaster recovery at a state level.
As a consultant at Battleground, Jack works closely with organisations to enhance their resilience capabilities through tailored solutions. His focus includes business impact analyses, continuity planning, crisis governance, and embedding resilience into operational practice.
Jack brings a practical systems-based mindset, drawing on lived frontline experience and a strong understanding of organisational risk. He is passionate about supporting organisations to build resilience in the face of complex disruptions and cascading challenges.
Group Bookings: For Group Bookings, please contact us via email on pdp@rmia.org.au or by phone on 1300 775 648.
When you register for this course you agree to the RMIA passing your registration details onto our Training Partner, Battleground.