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A list of classes offered by KETCHConsulting at the Resilient City Expo, Spring 2026
What Should My Organization be Doing for Active Assailant Preparedness?
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, KETCHConsulting National Practice Leader
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Pre-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $375
Join us for a 3-hour discussion on the steps organizations should take in every area of preparedness: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response and Recovery.
Prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery… each phase is crucial to emergency preparedness for extreme violence events at your facilities. Senior management and their teams have an important role in every phase of preparedness. What specifically does your organization need to do to be able to respond to incidents What should be included in your Business Continuity Plans? What does the National Standard for Workplace Violence Prevention and Active Assailant Intervention include? What should your organization be doing to prevent incidents? What should you be doing to prepare, prior to an incident? What does preparedness “look like” for your organization?
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, a national expert in the field of active assailant emergency preparedness, will address:
– Principles of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery
– Recognition and reporting behaviors of concern
– Notification
– Personal Protective Actions
– Management’s role in active assailant preparedness
– Threat Management
– What your preparedness plan should include
– How best to protect your employees from harm, and steps for recovery from an incident
– How to use active assailant prevention principles to prevent insider threat
If you have any additional questions, please contact either Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com (484-919-2966) or Dave Hunt at davehunt001@ketchconsulting.com (571-221-6796).
Advanced Exercise Design and Facilitation
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, KETCHConsulting National Practice Leader
Tuesday March 3, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Pre-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $375
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI will share his experience in designing, conducting and facilitating effective tabletop exercises. He will share his 40 years of experience and lessons learned from designing and conducting hundreds of discussion-based exercises to engage your stakeholders. He’ll discuss options to select the exercise goals and objectives, how to create an engaging scenario derived from the objectives, and how to facilitate the exercise to allow the participants to identify the necessary capability improvements. The class will include recommendations for formatting after action reports and improvement matrices. Designed for persons responsible for evaluating continuity and resilience plans, you will get buy-in for the continuity program and effectively enhance training for managers who are tasked with implementing the plans. Participants will recognize your exercise as a valuable use of their time to identify shortfalls and enhance capabilities.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Course
Ted Brown, MBCI, CBCP, CBCV, KETCHConsulting President and CEO
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Post-Conference Full-Day Course
Registration Fee: $675
This course is an in-depth look at how to conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The class is for both BIA novices and experienced professionals. It provides you with the opportunity to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the BIA. The course will explore the concept of the BIA. You will be taught two different approaches to a BIA – interviews and workshops and the value of each. You will also be provided with an actual BIA survey and the results of clients BIA’s.
The objectives of this class are:
– Understand the BIA process
– Understand how to structure a BIA
– Apply the standard methods to conduct a BIA
– How to determine the results of the BIA & identify the critical functions for recovery strategies
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.
Evacuations: A Critical Part of Any COOP or BCP
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, KETCHConsulting National Practice Leader
March 6, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Post-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $375
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI will share his experience in designing, conducting and executing Evacuations. There are many things in common in all Evacuations. But there are critical differences depending on who, what, and why, This session will examine these commonalities and more importantly: The key differences. Three kinds of Evacuations will be discussed:
– Typical businesses or Government Agencies
– Hospitals
– Jails
Think of the difficulties in evacuating a wheel chaired individual, and ICU patient, or a convicted felon. You will leave this session with copies of the presentation, a plan for a plan and many real world solutions to the challenges. Actual plans and Evacuations will be discussed.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.
Case Studies of Successful COOPs at City of San Francisco, City of Kuna, ID and Ada County, ID
Ted Brown, MBCI, CBCP, CBCV, KETCHConsulting President and CEO
March 6, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Post-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $375
This session will describe the successful COOPs at The City of San Francisco (pop. 875k), Ada County (pop. 484k), Idaho and City of Kuna (pop. 15k), Idaho. This presentation will be based on materials authored by the leaders, e.g. SF CIO, ADA County, Risk Manager, and Kuna Mayor. Actual Risk Assessments, COOPs, Tabletops, participants, and funding sources will be presented. Actual events and recoveries will be included along with lessons learned and AARs. Although these are all Government Entities, practitioners from both Public and Private Sectors will learn from these actual case studies. Ted Brown, President & CEO of KETCHConsulting was an active participant in all these COOPs.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.
Classes offered by KETCHConsulting at DRJ, Spring 2026
What Should My Organization be Doing for Active Assailant Preparedness?
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, KETCHConsulting National Practice Leader
Sunday, March 15, 2026, 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Pre-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $350
Join us for a 3-hour discussion on the steps organizations should take in every area of preparedness: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response and Recovery.
Prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery… each phase is crucial to emergency preparedness for extreme violence events at your facilities. Senior management and their teams have an important role in every phase of preparedness. What specifically does your organization need to do to be able to respond to incidents What should be included in your Business Continuity Plans? What does the National Standard for Workplace Violence Prevention and Active Assailant Intervention include? What should your organization be doing to prevent incidents? What should you be doing to prepare, prior to an incident? What does preparedness “look like” for your organization?
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, a national expert in the field of active assailant emergency preparedness, will address:
– Principles of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery
– Recognition and reporting behaviors of concern
– Notification
– Personal Protective Actions
– Management’s role in active assailant preparedness
– Threat Management
– What your preparedness plan should include
– How best to protect your employees from harm, and steps for recovery from an incident
– How to use active assailant prevention principles to prevent insider threat
If you have any additional questions, please contact either Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com (484-919-2966) or Dave Hunt at davehunt001@ketchconsulting.com (571-221-6796).
Learn to Create A Table-Top Exercise – An Exercise in Business Continuity/COOP Preparedness
Ted Brown, MBCI, CBCP, CBCV, KETCHConsulting President and CEO
Sunday, March 15, 2026, 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Pre-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $350
In this class, you will be given five different table-top scenarios, including the injects, and you will learn how to create a situation, scenario, and injects for your audience, your business, your location, and your BCP maturity. You will identify operations, decisions, and policies that impact the ability of a business unit to execute plans. The exercise helps you address conclusions and discussions which can change, emphasize, and otherwise affect your business continuity/COOP plan. You will conclude with an “after action” report which will lead to effective modifications and improvements to the plans being exercised.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Course
Ted Brown, MBCI, CBCP, CBCV, KETCHConsulting President and CEO
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Post-Conference Full-Day Course
Registration Fee: $695
This course is an in-depth look at how to conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The class is for both BIA novices and experienced professionals. It provides you with the opportunity to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the BIA. The course will explore the concept of the BIA. You will be taught two different approaches to a BIA – interviews and workshops and the value of each. You will also be provided with an actual BIA survey and the results of clients BIA’s.
The objectives of this class are:
– Understand the BIA process
– Understand how to structure a BIA
– Apply the standard methods to conduct a BIA
– How to determine the results of the BIA & identify the critical functions for recovery strategies
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.
A list of classes offered by KETCHConsulting at CI, Spring 2026
Advanced Exercise Design and Facilitation Course
Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, KETCHConsulting National Practice Leader
Date & Time TBD
Pre-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $375
This training enables participants to design, build, facilitate and create exercises and detailed after action reports. We’ll address how to select objectives, provide recommendations on developing the exercise scenarios to gain “buy in” with the participants. The course will provide tools and tips for effective facilitation, so class participants are confident in presenting and guiding the exercise discussions. The course will include recommendations for exercise logistics, to support an effective environment, for in-person, online and blended exercises. The course will include recommendations and a template for developing detailed after action reporting and an improvement tracking matrix so the identified solutions are assigned with completion dates. The course is taught by Dave Hunt, CPP, FBCI, with over three decades of exercise design experience, conducting hundreds of successful exercises.
If you have any additional questions, please contact either Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com (484-919-2966) or Dave Hunt at davehunt001@ketchconsulting.com (571-221-6796).
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Course
Ted Brown, MBCI, CBCP, CBCV, KETCHConsulting President and CEO
Date & Time TBD
Post-Conference Half-Day Course
Registration Fee: $375
This course is an in-depth look at how to conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The class is for both BIA novices and experienced professionals. It provides you with the opportunity to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the BIA. The course will explore the concept of the BIA. You will be taught two different approaches to a BIA – interviews and workshops and the value of each. You will also be provided with an actual BIA survey and the results of clients BIA’s.
The objectives of this class are:
– Understand the BIA process
– Understand how to structure a BIA
– Apply the standard methods to conduct a BIA
– How to determine the results of the BIA & identify the critical functions for recovery strategies
– How to get answers when the participants don’t know
– The most important factor in conducting successful BIA’s
If you have any additional questions, please contact Ted Brown at tedbrown@ketchconsulting.com or at 484-919-2966.