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Bend, don’t break!
Building resiliency in businesses, organizations, and communities – to better deal with uncertainties, crises, and major disruptions – now and in the future
Lessons from an S-CAR MS for Career Development
Wednesday, April 15
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Conference Room 5183
Learn about resilience and how conflict resolution processes, knowledge, and skills can be successfully applied in the concious effort of strengthening the resiliency in businesses, organizations, and communities. And, how such concious efforts can pay dividens to other fields – like conflict prevention and conflict resolution.
Resiliency (in this context) is about the capability to absorb and manage a crisis or major disruption without the system (business, organization, community) collapsing and to adapt to a ”new normal”.
Biography
Ms. Åse Lunde, CEO of Resilient Result AB, is a thought leader and expert on crisis management, crisis readiness, and resilience. She is also a strategy- and management consultant, and executive coach. She comes with more than 25 years of broad-based experience and works with leaders and senior managers who want to invest in their own as well as their organization´s capability to better deal with uncertainties, crises, and major disruptions.
Åse has a background as Course Director, Senior Lecturer, and Senior Advisor at the Institute for National Defence and Security Policy Studies (IHT), at the Swedish Defence University (FHS) where she worked around topics such as: Resilience; Complexity and Wicked Problems; Early Warning & Strategic Analysis; Horizon Scanning/Strategic Foresight; Strategic Risk- and Crisis Communications; and Strategic Leadership and Decision Making. IHT educates the top layer of society in how to successfully manage the most difficult types of crises and disruptions that can happen. The IHT is a part of the Institution for Security, Strategy, and Leadership at the Swedish Defence University. In this capacity she has also been guest lecturing at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, CA.
Her background also includes work as Senior Strategic Advisor on Emergency Preparedness & Response at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency as well as positions with the United Nations; the UN World Food Programme; and a 17-year career with the Swedish Police - including 10 years as operational Crisis & Hostage Negotiator, trained and certified at the Swedish Counter Terrorist Unit as well as the FBI Crisis (Hostage) Negotiation School.
Åse has deployed to various international "emergency contexts" such as the West Bank, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Haiti. She has operational status with the United Nations Disaster Assessment & Coordination Team (UNDAC) as well as the Swedish National Response Team.
Academically, Åse holds a 2-year Master of Science, MS, in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University in the United States and a Bachelor´s Degree in Applied Crisis Management from the same university. She is also a member in Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for international scholars.