Hybrid Meeting: Webinar and In-Person
Please register for BCPA Monthly Meeting by May 12, 2022 1:30 PM CT. Registered members and guests will receive an email before the start of the meeting containing information about joining the webinar.
or Join us In-Person!
Improving: 3600 American Blvd. W, Ste. 115 Bloomington, MN 55431
Presentation Description:
A New Approach to Mentoring
Mentoring, with its unique focus on relationships, can be an effective way of transferring skills that are hard to teach through traditional training: People skills, leadership skills, and ethical decision-making skills.
Mentoring can play an important role in attracting and retaining talent. The business continuity profession is often overlooked as a career choice because it is not well known. Disaster Recovery Journal is helping build this path with a free, 10-month mentor program.
People who have taken part in a mentoring relationship report they benefited in terms of both career and personal development. Career development literature shows that many consider being a mentor a key developmental task for individuals, especially mid-career, while those who have been mentees may have higher levels of career advancement, and career satisfaction.
Attend the webinar to hear the success story of a mentee and mentor completing the 10-month DRJ Mentor Program. Learn how becoming a mentee or mentor is an investment in two professionals and two organizations.
Mark Minutillo is from Chicago, Illinois. He earned his B.S. at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and his MBA at George Mason University. After college, Mark served in the U.S. Navy, and continued service in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He held roles in the telecommunications industry as a technical project manager and a business operations program manager. Mark later joined a technology solutions company as a product delivery manager and a critical incident controller, before assuming his current role as an operations manager. Mark is currently responsible for managing the company ’s Disaster Recovery test program. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP). Mark joined the DRJ Mentoring Program in August 2021.
Melissa joined Early Warning
in 2020 as a Sr. Business Continuity Manager. Prior to joining EWS
Melissa spent approx. two years as a manager within TD Ameritrade ’s Enterprise Continuity/Risk department where
she was responsible for overseeing Business Continuity plan development as well
as vendor management and testing.
Prior to joining TD
Ameritrade in 2018,Owings served as the Business Continuity Manager at
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska for more than 11 years. Overall, she
has harnessed her vast understanding of the business continuity industry to
positively influence the organizations she has worked for in this field for
more than 20 years. She currently serves on the Board of Great Plains
Contingency Planners.
Owings holds a Bachelor ’s degree in Management of Human Resources and a
Master ’s
Degree in Management. In her free time, she enjoys mentoring at-risk youth and
attending her children ’s
sports activities.
Margaret
Millett, MSBC, FBCI (Hon), MBCP, has been actively involved in the business
continuity management profession for many years and worked for Fortune 300 companies in Boston, Massachusetts,
Dublin, Ireland, San Jose, CA, and Raleigh, NC. She has held board levels
positions with business continuity organizations, written publications and
spoken at business continuity management conferences in North America, Europe,
Asia and the Middle East. Since 2015 she
has served as the Board Chair for the Alzheimer’s Association of Eastern North
Carolina. Margaret currently works for
Uber Technologies, Inc as the Head of Global Resilience.
