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"Experience is the worst teacher.
It always gives the test first
and the instruction afterward."
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Click on the date for more information about a given event.
Spetember 16, 2010
BOMEX 2010
Toronto, ON
Disaster Experience
for Real Estate Industry Professionals
October 4, 2010
Facility Decisions
Las Vegas, NV
Disaster Experience
- A Mock Disaster Exercise
November 4, 2010
MPI Texas Hill Country
Austin, TX
Disaster Experience - QuickFire
November 17, 2010
Tennessee Bankers Association
Nashville, TN
Disaster Experience
- A Mock Disaster Exercise
December 7, 2010
IAEE Expo! Expo!
New Orleans, LA
Disaster Experience
for Meeting Professionals
March 27, 2011
DRJ SpringWorld 2011
Orlando, FL
Disaster Experience
- A Mock Disaster Exercise
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Case Study: Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
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With offices in many of the nation’s largest cities, as well as in Bermuda and London, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold (SMDA) LLP has the potential for disruption of its operations by a broad range of natural and man-made disasters. The law firm is committed to providing for the safety of its 750 employees in 12 cities worldwide as well as ensuring that it can continue to serve its clients, including some of the world's largest corporations, insurers and businesses, without disruption.
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Case Study: Hunton & Williams LLP
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With 19 offices worldwide, Hunton & Williams LLP faces considerable challenges to ensuring the safety of more than 2,000 employees. As firmwide business continuity manager, Kathy Scourby is charged with maintaining the organization’s business continuity plans and providing comprehensive training for local crisis management teams. After researching the exercises on Attainium’s website, Scourby purchased the workplace violence series as a starting point for her worldwide training initiative.
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Case Study: Hawaii First Federal Credit Union
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Hawaii First Federal Credit Union serves members island-wide, with branches located in Kamuela, Waikoloa and Hilo. Their motto of "Members First" is taken seriously by the credit union management and staff. "I just can sleep better at night knowing that we passed the National Credit Union Association (NCUA) audit with flying colors, and the business continuity plan is in place," said Laura Aguirre, president and CEO. "I know we can continue to serve our members in the event of a disaster."
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Case Study: Blake Real Estate
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The property management division of Blake Real Estate is responsible for about 2.5 million square feet in 11 properties at prestigious addresses in downtown Washington DC. On any given day, the company is responsible for the comfort, safety and security of some 3,000 to 6,000 employees of and visitors to its high-profile tenants. The properties, just blocks from the Capitol, the White House and national monuments, present unique disaster response and business continuity challenges.
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Case Study: Association of Legal Administrators
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The Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) provides support to professionals involved in the management of law firms, corporate legal departments and government legal agencies, according to its web site. Each year it sponsors an Annual Educational Conference and Exposition, which features more than 100 educational sessions; one of these was Attainium’s interactive Disaster Experience.
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Case Study: Rohm & Haas
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"I had attended the Disaster Experience™ session that Attainium did for BOMA Philadelphia, and I recommended the session for our upcoming test," said Henry Hoover, security and disaster recovery supervisor for Rohm & Haas. "I had made changes in the disaster recovery program and team and wanted to test the plan and the team members… explore where the strengths and weaknesses were."
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Case Study: BOMA San Francisco
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“We brought Attainium in two years ago to present the Disaster Experience,” said Victoria Brubaker, BOMA SF Member Services Director. “It was an excellent program, so we decided to bring them back to do the shelter-in-place program, which is something we’ve been working on with local emergency services.
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Case Study: Association Forum of Chicagoland
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"We put together programs that really target our membership," said Thelma Dietsch, CAE, the Forum’s assistant director of learning experiences. "Attainium did a program for us a couple of years ago that was very well received, so we decided to bring back Bob (Mellinger, Attainium CEO) to present Attainium’s Disaster Experience™ for the disaster planning session."
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Case Study: International Safety and Security Conference
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"The greatest value of the session is that it raises people’s awareness of the need for a mechanism to make decisions during an emergency," said Greg Shaw, senior research scientist at the George Washington University’s Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management. "It shows that you have to practice more than once… group dynamics differ for every group, and even good managers may fail in a crisis. The exercise helps people see their blind spots."
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Case Study: MPI Michigan
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"You can never be prepared enough for any emergency situation," said Jodie Cady, events manager for the Michigan Association of Realtors, "and I felt this session was a good opportunity to see what new ideas were out there that I could use and bring back to the association. I came back with lots of information to share."
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Case Study: ASIS International
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“Disaster planning is a big piece of what security people are doing today, so we wanted to offer a program that would challenge our members’ disaster response skills,” said Joseph Ricci, executive director of the National Association of Security Companies (NASCO), who also chairs the Private Security Services Council of ASIS. “Attainium was referred to us as an excellent provider of this kind of training in an interactive format, so we brought them in to work with our members.”
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Case Study: BOMA Toronto
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“BOMA Toronto wanted a program that would bring to the audience the key salient points of the situation in an interactive environment and let them get what it was all about." said Douglas Macy, chair of the BOMA Toronto emergency management committee. With a mandate to provide value to its more-than-700 members, Macy said, “BOMA Toronto wanted a program that would bring to the audience the key salient points of the situation in an interactive environment..."
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Case Study: PCMA Southeast
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“I had heard good things about Attainium’s exercise, and I knew they had done it for the national PCMA organization,” said Michelle W. Jones, CMP, a PCMA SE board member. “The main reason we brought them in, however, was that I could tell from their materials that it was a meaty, practical class. It’s easy to get fluffy, motivational speakers, but we wanted something substantive for this program.
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Case Study: BOMA Greater Los Angeles
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“We wanted our members to have the experience of working through a shelter-in-place program in a real-time fashion,” said Martha Cox-Nitikman, interim executive director of BOMA/GLA. “We selected Attainium for the program because of their SIP content, and we knew they had both the experience and subject expertise we needed. We absolutely got what we needed in the exercise they developed and presented.
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Case Study: First Community Bank of Bedford County, TN
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“Attainium’s Conduct-it-Yourself™ Disaster Experience enabled us to do a unique training program with relatively little difficulty and expense – it cost less than our postage budget for one month,” said Rebecca Jones, training officer in the compliance department at First Community Bank in Bedford County, Tennessee.
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Case Study: Contingency Planners of OHIO
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According to Rod Keeley, CPO president, the group felt that Attainium’s Disaster Experience interactive training would be a good fit for its 20th anniversary conference program. “The program was identified to me as a high quality, professional, tabletop exercise. It was a great opportunity for us to put ourselves in a situation and work through contingency plans.”
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Case Study: Missouri Credit Union Association
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The Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA) provides many services to its member credit unions that serve more than a million people statewide. One initiative is to provide education and training to member credit unions’ staff and volunteers. Liz Adams, vice president for education and training for MCUA, decided to bring Attainium’s Disaster Experience to the organization’s Executive Summit to reinforce members’ awareness of the need to be prepared in the event of a business disruption.
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Case Study: MPI World Education Conference
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There was no shortage of sessions to choose from at 2006 World Education Conference sponsored by Meeting Professionals International (MPI), but attendees who participated in Attainium’s Disaster Experience session think they selected one of the best. Presented in the format of an unfolding disaster, the Disaster Experience grabbed and held participants attention for several hours.
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Case Study: Tennessee Bankers Association
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The Tennessee Bankers Association serves the needs of the state's banks, thrift institutions, and trust companies, including providing continuing education programs. “Disaster recovery is such a big buzzword, and Attainium’s Disaster Experience was an opportunity for us to incorporate it into our annual Bank Security and Risk Management Conference,” said Susan Taylor, VP and director of professional development, Tennessee Bankers Association.
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Case Study: IFMA Silicon Valley
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Members of the Silicon Valley chapter of the International Facility Management Association deal with the threat of earthquakes and numerous other situations that have the potential for disaster. “We decided to offer the Disaster Experience as a half-day workshop,” said Ralph Buchanan, IFMA-SV Board member and chair of the professional development committee, “based on recommendations from other chapters who had either presented the exercise or attended it."
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