Irene Rozansky, MBA

www.raconsulting.net

Specialities Business Impact and Risk/Threat Analyses Crisis Prevention Design & Implementation Physical & Data Security Workplace Violence Mitigation Disaster Recovery Planning & Implementation Crisis Communications

Industries Healthcare Manufacturing Professional Services Technology Not-for-Profit Most Industries

Client Benefits

What makes R&A Crisis Management Services in Crisis Prevention and Crisis Control so special? We help our clients achieve Resilience & Ataraxia!

Experience: We know that the speed at which an organization responds to a crisis will determine its outcome - in terms of lives, property and continuity of business. We know because we have worked through many real business crises (acts of nature, unintentional and intentional incidents) and the founder has more than 15 years of international, cross-industry experience in the field working under some of the most challenging situations.

Objectivity: Our recommendations, designs and implementation methodologies come from solid research and experience and are solely based on the client's unique situation. We never, ever take rewards from other vendors to promote their products.

Compassion: Odd as it may sound in the be tough business environment; our heads are connected to our hearts! We honestly care about the safety and security of our client's employees, intellectual property and reputation. We'd also like our clients to know that we earmark 2% of our annual revenue to fighting domestic violence and child abuse - so in effect, our clients help us do that.

Assurance: We guarantee our work will be satisfactory (or better) to our clients.

Professional Background

Ms. Rozansky, founder and CEO of R&A Crisis Management Services is an international speaker, consultant and author with an extensive background in business operations, business continuity, organizational change and communications. She brings more than twenty-five years of business acumen in organizational strategy and growth as well as expansive community leadership to her engagements.

For the past 15 years, Ms. Rozansky has worked with disasters first-hand, and has assisted scores of entities prepare for, mitigate, and successfully avoid and/or recover from critical incidents. Her clients have included entities affected by the Okalahoma City bombing, south Florida hurricanes, Chicago flood, California earthquakes and fires, utilities outages, terrorism in NYC, Peru and Colombia, and more.

Before forming R&A in 2001, Ms. Rozansky was responsible for developing and implementing the full range of business continuity consulting services for Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation and Comdisco, Inc. In the last role, she was a Business Continuity Practice Director, with 35 consultants reporting to her.

Committed to the community, she serves on the boards of Chicago chapter of the Institute for Management Consultants (IMC), the Illinois chapter of U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, the Chicago chapter of Women in Technology International, and Women in Need Growing Stronger (WINGS), a non-profit dedicated to assisting abused, homeless women and their children with housing, career development, and social services. She is also a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, the Association of Contingency Planners, National Association of Women Business Owners and Project Management Institute.

Ms. Rozansky holds a MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a BA from Purdue University. She graduated with honors from both universities.

Other

"The overall quality of the consulting service (Preparedness Assessment) provided by R&A was excellent. The professionalism and attitude of the consultant far exceeded our expectations. We found Irene willing and able to successfully obtain needed buy-in and create a positive attitude from all staff, even those who initially were dubious about the project." RGK, Executive Director, JUF/JF Metropolitan Chicago.

"Irene really helped up take a broad, abstract concept (business continuity) and focus it to tangible, specific things that we could do. Irene's business competence, effectiveness in communicating and deliverables all exceeded our expectations." JO, Director Information Services, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation.

"Irene's advice was right on target. She provided us a framework to complete a recovery plan, and with her assistance, we were able to do this on time and within budget. I was pleased to have Irene be our partner in business continuity." MDL, Mgr, Information Services, Criterion Catalyst Company, L.P.