How to Prepare for a Crisis and Build Resilience? w/ Janis Vanags

Coming up on this LinkedIn Live Combat Ready Instructor Louis Zezeran will speak with crisis management expert Janis Vanags.

Janis was in a senior leadership position in airBaltic during several years of extremely difficult challenges. After this was brought onto the board of Maxima to develop the company's crisis management procedures in the wake of the terrible building collapse in 2013.

He is currently spearheading a new NGO called "CIREN - Civilian Resilience Nordic" who's goal is to share the learnings of crisis management across the Nordics and enable these learnings to be filtered down to a national, regional and household level.

Janis and I will speak about:

• What does crisis management mean? What sort of crisis do we mean?

• How does a company prepare for the worst?

• How can you even know what the worst is?

While we can not know every possible situation, the experience Janis has says that if an organization does their risk assessment and plans for the a variety of outcomes, they will be in a far, far better position to deal with the unknown unknowns which will arise.

By implementing standard procedures for dealing with crisis moments, this also seems to diffuse into the company's overall culture. When teams see the value of producing crisis procedures, they understand better the value of producing procedures for their day to day work as well.

Cover photo taken by Joanna Jõhvikas at the NEVERHACK conference 2024. Thanks for NEVERHACK Estonia and Confent agency.