Risk Stories!
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMichael Puldy, CEO of Puldy Resiliency Partners, has a thirty plus year career dealing with disasters, crisis’, and crazy adventures. In his business life, he has helped hundreds of companies navigate through business disruption, computer infrastructure failures and data loss, caused by a broad brush of reasons including human mistakes, natural disasters, and all out cyberattacks. Through work, adventure travel, and in everyday life, we face and confront risk every day and in all sorts of unexpected ways. Sometimes the experience is amazing, and sometimes we see the darkness that exposes the core of what makes us human.Join Michael and his guests as we listen to how people confront risk, and have successfully, and sometimes not so successfully, navigated a never-ending and challenging maze of chance.
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Removing the Economic Risks to Deploy Clean Power
June 21, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBDeploying clean power starts with people, money, and culture. And then there’s the hardware: solar panels, batteries, wind turbines, transmission lines, and charging stations. Solving the puzzle to reverse the effects of climate change rests on making the economics of clean power work. Every day, Trenton Allen, CEO of Sustainable Capital Advisors, and advisory board member to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, works to build a climate-resilient future through financial advisory services for su...
Diversity, Equity Inclusion, and Belonging
June 07, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIf someone told you that your company could be 36% more profitable simply by implementing one thing, would you be willing to try it? Janine Hamner Holman, founding principal and CEO of J&J Consulting Group, is a diversity and organizational culture expert who has spent the last 10 years studying the intersection of brain science, emotional intelligence and communication. We are at a tipping point with the epidemic of employee resignations. Employees must feel they belong, they're se...
Business & Career Lessons from the Trenches
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBNick Warner, formerly an A-list lobbyist in Sacramento, California, and now a business and career coach, talks about his lobbyist days, and how he balanced lobbying with running a successful business. Have a notepad ready because this episode is chalked full of business axioms, media sound bites, and a quick inside glimpse of how the legal system really works. And then there’s the career basics: “You are only as good as what you are selling.” “Listen and ask smart questions.” “Don’t...
Derisking Software Development While Debugging Diversity
April 12, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MB“The people who create technology must represent the communities that use it.” In today’s episode, Michael discusses software development and diversity in technology with Dan Draper. Dan is an entrepreneur, software developer and diversity champion, the CEO and founder of CipherStash, and the producer of the documentary “Debugging Diversity” where he uncovers issues facing women in technology. Programming data security is tricky and is ultimately the responsibility of the software deve...
The Abstraction and Magnetism of Cyber Security
March 22, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBEvery business, no matter how big or small, can be the target of cybercrime. From his vantage point of author, educator, podcaster and founder and CEO of Cyber Risk Opportunities, visionary Kip Boyle discusses cyber security. Why do so many senior decision makers not invest in cyber security? Unfortunately, too many are not interested in preventing a problem until they feel the pain directly or are close to someone who is suffering. Kip discusses many real-world experiences including ...
Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
March 08, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.3 MBThe topic of money laundering sparks thoughts of recent TV series like “Breaking Bad” and “Ozark.” However, this is a real-life problem that is challenging regulators around the world. Jamie Ramirez is a regtech thought leader, and Founder and CEO of Preventor. The methods of money laundering are constantly changing, and the criminals are becoming more creative hiding their cash. Fortunately, the technology to detect these crimes also evolve and thus the creates a perpetual game of cat an...
AI: Chasing the Right Amount of Perfection
February 22, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBToday’s episode highlights the good news and the bad news about the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Dr. Ron Baecker. Dr. Baecker is an author, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Toronto University, and Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Computers and Society Organization. Ron explains how some areas of AI are mature and working successfully. However, there are other areas of AI that Ron considers immature, and at this point, unrealistic. There’s also an ethi...
Scuba Diving, Nursing and the Power of Data
February 08, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBWhat do cave diving, nursing and data analysis have in common? Meet Sari Megan Kern, CEO of Alpha Data Strategies. Many calculations go into determining the critical factors necessary for a safe and successful dive. Nursing and dealing with medical issues is also based on strong data. As Sari explains, you cannot make good decisions without data! Data maximizes your opportunities for success, and data drives decision making – in diving, in nursing, and especially in business! Data mu...
Inside High Risk Rescue and Recoveries
January 25, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBHold on to your hat for this episode with Moose! Moose Mutlow is an adventurer, author, educator and rescuer. Since 2002 Moose has been a member and senior trainer of Yosemite Search and Rescue. He is also the Lead Trainer for Family Liaison Officers for the National Park Service. Moose gives us an uncensored view of what life is like inside the world of search and rescue. As Moose puts it, “In search and rescue you inherit someone else’s crisis, and you must choreograph the response....
Reshaping Organizational Friction
January 11, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn this episode, Michael talks with Belle Walker, founder of Belleview Consulting. Risks can be found in the darkest corners of a business. And, all too often organization dynamics, including poorly defined reporting structures, inefficient approval processes, and overly complicated product manufacturing programs act as silent killers -- quietly and methodically sapping the life of a business and its employees. Belle is an Organizational Efficiency Engineer, and she will be the first to te...
Extortion and Exfiltration? Call My Attorney!
December 21, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBToday’s episode focuses on the legal side of cyberattacks and threats. Robert Braun, an attorney who specializes in cybersecurity and privacy, talks with Michael about the risks involved when a breach happens. Robert explains that even though more and more companies are becoming security and privacy aware, many still don’t understand the real threats involved with “bad” security. The decisions regarding privacy and security must be made at the highest levels of a business with assign...
At the Intersection of Design and Growth
November 12, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBToday Michael speaks with Karen Donoghue, author of patents and books, mobile app developer and owner of the company HumanLogic. Working with both startups and global 100 companies, Karen has built her career around design and the user experience as it relates to software and technology. Over the years, Karen has seen a shift in the software development industry where tight release cycles result in de-prioritizing the user experience, compromising the value delivered to end users while st...
Securing the Village
November 09, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBDr. Stan Stahl is founder and leader of the non-profit organization Secure The Village. Stan talks with us about taking a grass roots approach to cybersecurity. He believes at the heart of information security is a conversation. Businesses must pull the right people together to talk about cybersecurity, truly have a program in place and then move that program forward! Stan also focuses on educating the residential and consumer markets on how we can reduce the risk that technology bring...
Rolling the Dice with Your Crown Jewels
October 26, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode, we talk with Steven Colby, an intellectual property attorney at Rimon Law, and owner of more than 15 patents. Steven has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and started his career as an engineer building instruments to test chemicals before jumping to the law track. During his early engineering and teaching career, he acquired his patent experience before going all in with a multi-decade career in IP law. Steven describes himself as a “patent prosecutor” who writes the technic...
Every Company is Somewhere
October 12, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBStevan Bernard, founder of Bernard Global, has spent his career protecting people, protecting businesses, and protecting reputations. And through this experience, Stevan has seen and experienced crises and disasters that most of us have only read about. Most publicly was during his tenure at Sony Pictures Entertainment where he was an Executive Vice President during the highly public cyberattack of 2014. Every company is somewhere in their crisis planning journey. At one end of the spect...
Do the Math! How Long is Your Recovery?
July 14, 2021 01:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBWe are once again with Flick March, Director of Security and Resiliency for Europe, Middle East and Africa at the IBM spinoff company, Kindryl. When we last spoke to Flick in December, the topic was ransomware and all the crazy exposures she sees with companies and how they manage IT risk. In the last six months, ransomware has become a worldwide epidemic, and unfortunately, the concern for business risk management is just as concerning. For example, do you know what are your firm’s cro...
A True Life Adventure: Saving the Planet
May 25, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBBlair Palese, co-founder and former CEO of 350.org Australia, has spent her entire career protecting our planet. Her passion and commitment to saving the planet was once a unique voice while today Blair is one voice of millions around the globe fighting for climate justice. It isn’t easy to problem-solve solutions around climate change. There are big equity issues involved. Blair walks us through some of the major changes in how the world looks at the environment, how we solve the global...
Solving the Employee Strike Equation
May 11, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBIn this episode, we spotlight one of our four critical business continuity scenarios: what happens when employees are unavailable? Michelle Vincent, Senior Director of Marketing and Sales for MADI Corporation, spends her days, nights and weekends helping companies figure out how to keep their shops open if the time comes for employees to walk off the job. When employees strike, emotions run high, and anxieties and tensions are thick. One day everyone is sharing coffee, and the next day, t...
E-X-I-T is a Four-Letter Word
April 27, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBOne of the biggest risks in business is owner dependency. A business that can’t transition doesn’t hold a lot of value to a buyer. This is where Tom Bronson, CEO of Mastery Partners, saves the day. Tom has bought and sold over 100 businesses, and today works with business owners to design and execute their ultimate transition strategy. The author of the book, “Maximize Business Value,” and host of the podcast of the same name, Tom brings a level of business wisdom to the table that only su...
A Force of One: Bringing Continuity to Everyone
April 13, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBMeet Mrs. Preparedness. Doniella McKoy is a rising star in the business continuity field. Her experience in business continuity and risk management began with a business undergraduate degree coupled with a master’s degree in Emergency Management. Previous experience working for FEMA and being a member of New York City’s Emergency Management Team only fueled her passion for managing and reducing both business and personal risk. Today, Doniella teaches Business Continuity & Crisis Mana...
Crisis Management: Bad News Doesn’t Get Better with Age
March 30, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBCrisis means chaos! And all too often, management, employees, and clients are all dragged on a wild rollercoaster ride until suddenly they’re not. Unfortunately, while the ride may be over for some, for others, between social media disparagement, news media persistence, and legal jeopardy, the ride may feel like it never ends. In this episode of Risk Stories! we speak with David Oates, founder of PR Security Service, a public relations firm who focuses exclusively on helping clients navi...
Your Stalker's Stalker - Personal CounterIntelligence
March 16, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBHave you ever thought about how a threat actor could use public information from your social media accounts to target you, your family, or your business? Meet Dr. Sarah Morningstar, President and Founder of Morningstar Consulting, a security threat investigative firm, who thinks about this everyday! Before starting her consulting company, Sarah had an amazing career working for the CIA as an Intelligence Analyst and Intelligence Briefer in both Washington DC and Iraq. Even though the ...
The 9-1-1 of the World
March 02, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBWhat if you traveling in a foreign country and you need help? What if the borders and air space are suddenly closed? What if you or a family member are kidnapped for ransom? Meet Dale Buckner, retired US Army Colonel who spent a military career in counter terrorism and special operations. Today, as CEO of Global Guardian, Dale focuses his expertise helping people in life threatening situations wherever they may be in the world by providing security services and emergency response in...
Card Not Present: The Flow of Money
February 16, 2021 18:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBWe all love the convenience of cashless transactions. Credit cards have been around for what seems like forever, and now we have even more convenient “FinTech” methods such as ApplePay, Paypal, and Venmo. What goes on behind the scenes of processing these payments? Who takes on the risk for fraudulent transactions? Today’s guest is Robert Blair, Executive Vice President, Chief Product & Innovation Officer at Elavon. Robert is a leading US expert on credit card processing, merchant serv...
Where Are Your Papers? A Capitol Eyewitness
February 02, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWhat did it feel like to inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021 when the insurrection was taking place? How has life changed for people living in and around the area? Meet Katie Schoettler, Communications Director for Senator Steve Daines of Montana. She experienced the events of January 6 firsthand and is now living the “new normal” of life in the capital city. In this episode, Katie talks about her experience and how she was personally effected. Many things have changed in Washington ...
Let’s Set Our Lead Actor on Fire
January 19, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBWhat happens when a director decides he wants to set his lead actor on fire while filming? How does the crew get paid when a big budget film cancels production due to a pandemic? The success of Hollywood and the entertainment industry depends upon managing risk. And managing entertainment risk doesn’t stop with movies and television. Blockbuster events like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and even the Academy Awards all require insurance, or the show doesn’t go on. Behind the scenes of e...
Going On The Privacy Offensive
January 05, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBMeet Jodi Daniels, CEO and founder of Red Clover Advisors, a privacy compliance consultancy. Do you understand the difference between security and privacy? Where do they overlap? Jodi walks us through the differences and similarities, and why each is extremely important in today’s cyber enabled world. The foundation of privacy is trust! Equally important, the time to think about privacy isn’t after you’ve experienced a data breach. How businesses collect, use, share and store perso...
When Data Stops Flowing, So Does the Revenue
December 15, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBOnce again, we welcome Flick March, Director, IBM Resiliency Services, Europe, this time to discuss business resiliency, or as she puts it, “A company’s ability to maintain core purpose and integrity while under duress and under attack.” In today’s world, maintaining a culture of resilience is essential to minimize both revenue loss and human impact! Destructive cyberattacks have completely changed the rule book right under our feet. Recovery ownership has changed and data restore acc...
The Ingredients for Some Data Protection Gumbo
December 01, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBData Protection isn’t just Backup Anymore… Guest Demetrius Malbrough, founder and host of Data Protection Gumbo Podcast talks with Michael about the “Ready Player One” world. A world where data and analytics are converging and data is more precious and potentially more exposed than ever before. Understanding that a new ransomware attack takes place every 14 seconds, Demetrius explains how businesses must take an intelligent approach to planning, protecting, and recovering critical data. ...
Life as a Trial Lawyer in a Pandemic
November 16, 2020 20:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBAdrienne Hahn, civil litigation attorney and founder of the Hahn Legal Group in Los Angeles, discusses some of the everyday challenges of being a trial lawyer, and how lawyer life has significantly changed in the COVID-19 pandemic era. While family law and estate law cases are booming, this is a very challenging time to be a trial lawyer. With courts just short of being shutdown, the disadvantages of attorneys’ working from home and trying to navigate Zoom depositions is unpreceden...
Pandemics, Plagues and Cobras, Oh My!
November 03, 2020 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBRisk = Hazard x Exposure Michael Goldman, Director of Environmental Safety & Health, Puldy Resiliency Partners, explains how he navigates life and his career by understanding this formula. From tornados & hurricanes, to gasoline pipeline spills & pandemics, there are long term effects from experiencing a disaster. Having a plan and controlling exposure are keys to survival. In a world where we are just one day away from every other person on earth, how do we “plan the work and work the pl...
The Tipping Point of Mental Health Health!
October 26, 2020 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBFlick March, Director, IBM Resiliency Services, Europe, discusses the value and importance of maintaining a strong and positive mental health. Not only is mental health important to Flick personally, but she also describes how it’s critical to her management style of creating a “game changing” environment that focuses more on life than work. Michael and Flick also discuss the subject of suicide. A topic that is often kept in the shadows especially at work. Have we reached a tipping po...