Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The CEO's Course on Securing Continuity When Disasters Strike

Turn chaotic recovery drills into a repeatable, board-ready continuity plan that protects revenue and reputation.

Stop spending every Monday morning rebuilding fragmented recovery docs while senior leadership fears the next outage will hit the quarterly earnings report.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Last month a major European beverage producer suffered a ransomware outage that halted production for 48 hours, exposing how fragile even the biggest brands are when IT services collapse. As the CEO of an IT consultancy you are fielding frantic calls from clients whose backup schedules are scattered across spreadsheets, whose failover tests are ad-hoc, and whose senior leadership fears another headline-making incident.

Your current toolbox consists of siloed runbooks, a patchwork of cloud snapshots, and a handful of senior engineers who each own a piece of the recovery puzzle. When a breach occurs the board demands a clear evidence pack, but you spend days stitching logs, validating restore points, and chasing missing approvals. The cost of each unplanned outage compounds, eroding trust and jeopardizing future contracts.

If the next disruption lands during a quarterly earnings cycle, the pressure to present a flawless continuity narrative will be relentless, and the lack of a unified, auditable process could cost you both client contracts and your own reputation.

What you walk away with

A board-ready continuity executive summary that articulates risk exposure in financial terms.
A consolidated disaster-recovery register that maps every critical service to its recovery point objective.
A repeatable test-execution checklist that reduces drill time by 60 percent.
A stakeholder communication playbook that aligns IT, legal, and operations during an incident.
A post-incident review template that turns outages into actionable improvement tickets.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping Critical Services

78 percent of firms lose revenue when a single service fails. The module walks through a live inventory session where you pull service catalogs from client ticketing tools, align them with revenue streams, and produce a prioritized service map. Output: a critical-service matrix ready for immediate review.

Module 2. Defining Recovery Objectives

During the weekly client governance call you hear the CFO ask, “What is our true RPO for the packaging line system?” This module shows how to calculate realistic recovery point objectives using historical data and stakeholder input, then lock them into a unified register. The deliverable is a recovery-objective register.

Module 3. Designing the Failover Architecture

By module end a failover architecture diagram sits in your drive.

Module 4. Building the Runbook Repository

By module end a populated runbook repository sits in your drive.

Module 5. Automating Backup Validation

A tension between compliance auditors demanding proof and operations teams fearing performance hits drives this module. You create an automated validation script that checks backup integrity nightly and logs results to a dashboard. Output: an automated backup validation script.

Module 6. Conducting a Live Drill

The fastest path from a messy current state to a documented drill outcome is outlined here. You schedule a tabletop exercise, run a simulated outage, capture metrics, and produce a drill report. What you ship from this module: a drill execution report.

Module 7. Stakeholder Communication Plan

The head of operations wants concise updates during an incident. This module crafts a communication matrix, defines escalation tiers, and creates templated status emails. The deliverable is a stakeholder communication plan.

Module 8. Post-Incident Review Process

A regulator’s recent enforcement notice highlighted the need for documented root-cause analysis. You build a review workflow that captures lessons learned, assigns remediation owners, and feeds into a continuous-improvement backlog. Output: a post-incident review template.

Module 9. Financial Impact Modeling

By module end a financial impact model sits in your drive.

Module 10. Governance and Reporting Cadence

A CFO demands quarterly evidence of continuity readiness. This module defines a reporting cadence, assembles key metrics, and creates a board-ready slide deck. The deliverable is a governance reporting deck.

Module 11. Vendor Coordination Framework

A stakeholder POV from the legal counsel reveals the need for clear SLAs with third-party cloud providers. You construct a vendor coordination matrix that tracks responsibilities, response times, and escalation contacts. Output: a vendor coordination matrix.

Module 12. Continuous Improvement Roadmap

By module end a continuous improvement roadmap sits in your drive.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers Mapping Critical Services , exactly the chaotic inventory you face when client ticketing systems hide revenue-critical dependencies.

Module 4 covers Building the Runbook Repository , precisely the scramble you endure each time a client asks for a documented recovery procedure.

Module 7 covers Stakeholder Communication Plan , the exact gap you hit when operations teams need real-time status updates during an incident.

What you get with this course

A populated critical-service matrix.
A recovery-objective register.
A failover architecture diagram.
A runbook repository with sample entries.
An automated backup validation script.
A drill execution report template.
A stakeholder communication plan.
A post-incident review template.
A financial impact model.
A governance reporting deck.
A vendor coordination matrix.
A continuous improvement roadmap.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, critical-service matrix pre-populated for your environment, backup validation script ready.

Week 1: first version of the drill execution report live and shared with senior leadership.

Month 1: continuous-improvement roadmap driving a quarterly reporting cycle with zero manual reconciliation.

Before and after

Before

Your current continuity assets live in scattered Word files, email threads, and isolated cloud snapshots. Evidence for audits is assembled on the fly, causing missed deadlines and frantic board calls whenever an outage occurs. The lack of a unified register means senior leadership cannot answer basic questions about recovery times or financial exposure.

After

After the course you have a single, up-to-date continuity register, a ready-to-present executive summary, and a repeatable drill cadence that produces evidence automatically. Board meetings now feature clear risk metrics, and you can confidently promise clients a documented, tested recovery path.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this now, the next ransomware wave will force you into emergency board meetings without evidence, leading to lost contracts and potential liability. The Q3 earnings close will arrive with no continuity proof, and the board may question your function’s strategic value.

Who it is for

A CEO-level IT leader who runs a boutique consultancy serving consumer-goods and automotive clients, spends mornings in board briefings and afternoons juggling multiple client disaster-recovery contracts, and needs a single, repeatable method to prove resilience without rebuilding the same artefacts for every engagement.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to backup concepts rather than an executive-level continuity framework.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week, saving an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding effort.

Why $199 is the right number

At $199 you get a complete continuity toolkit, whereas hiring a half-day consultant costs $2K-$5K, a generic compliance course runs $800-$2K, and building the same artefacts yourself would consume 60+ hours of engineering time.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with disaster-recovery tools?

No, the course assumes only a high-level understanding and provides step-by-step artefacts.

Can the templates be used for both on-prem and cloud environments?

Yes, each artefact includes fields for hybrid architectures.

How quickly will I see a reduction in drill preparation time?

Most participants report a 60 % cut after completing the first three modules.

Is there any ongoing support after the course?

The resources remain accessible for a year, and you can reuse them for any client.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.