Tips for Improving Your Business Recovery Efforts
Business recovery plans succeed when they include two crucial components: a prioritized list of operations to restore first and strategies for setting recovery expectations well in advance of an incident.
In this episode, Kye Kolar, Business Continuity Manager at Dimensional Fund Advisors, explains why post-incident recovery depends more on empowered employees than on static documents and how clear crisis communication helps teams stay aligned when conditions change.
Kye reflects on:
- The experiences that shaped his approach to business recovery
- Why supporting the people leading incident response and recovery is critical after a crisis
- Practical ways leaders can modernize emergency preparedness training
The Employee Safety Podcast is hosted by Peter Steinfeld, SVP of Safety Solutions at AlertMedia.
You can find this interview and many more by following The Employee Safety Podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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