Strategic Triumph: Mastering BRE through Disaster and Supply Chain Resilience
May 23rd | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
About the Session
Elevate your Business Retention and Expansion strategies in the face of uncertainty.
Our exclusive webinar unveils the keys to unparalleled success as Business Retention and Expansion experts. Dive into cutting-edge approaches that encompass the five stages of disaster management: prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Leading to informed decision-making in economic recovery.
Delve into the world of disaster management, supply chain resiliency, and learn how to seamlessly integrate preparedness and mitigation into your decision-making processes.
Explore strategies for creating shared strategic value across community lifelines by integrating supply chain and site selection best practices.
This session goes beyond expert knowledge, offering tangible key takeaways – actionable insights, and proven strategies for your business's resilience. Elevate your strategy and secure your success in the BRE arena. Don't miss out – register now and embark on your roadmap to resilience!
About the Speakers
Alia Abbas
As the CEO and Founder of Alia Consulting - Economic Development Firm, Alia leverages her extensive background in disaster and emergency management, as well as business continuity, to drive the success of her firm. Alia Consulting specializes in providing crucial support to economic development organizations, particularly in disaster and emergency preparedness, with a strong focus on business continuity. Alia's firm has played a pivotal role in assisting clients with their investment attraction initiatives, supply chain strategies, and disaster recovery planning. Through collaborations with esteemed organizations including the International Economic Development Council, City of Toronto, City of Brampton, and Toronto Global. Additionally, Alia and her firm offer invaluable expertise in developing comprehensive economic development strategies, encompassing areas such as business retention and expansion (BR&E), foreign direct investment (FDI), and strategic community planning. With ten years of project management experience, collaborating with municipalities across Canada and the United States of America, Alia possesses a deep understanding of the diverse needs and challenges faced by different communities.
Alia's exceptional work and unwavering dedication in economic development have earned her international recognition and prestigious awards. She was honored with the distinguished 2023 Top 40 Under 40 award by DCI and Jorgen Consulting at the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Leadership Summit held in Phoenix, Arizona. Additionally, she received the bright ideas award from the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (2020/2021) for her outstanding performance measurement metrics report, which has proven instrumental in assisting economic developers in their recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, her accomplishments were acknowledged by the Premier of Ontario through a personal letter of recognition.
Kathy Fulton
Kathy Fulton is Executive Director for American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN). She leads the organization in delivering logistics information, services, and equipment to support disaster response and recovery efforts. Her passions include leveraging the unique skills of supply chain professionals to enable responsible disaster relief, and building cross-sector collaborative relationships that support community resilience.
Ms. Fulton is a founding member of FEMA’s Supply Chain Analysis Network (SCAN) and a founding member of the Private Sector Emergency Management Association (PSEMA). Ms. Fulton was a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine consensus committee on “Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience,” and has testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Budget on the costs of climate change on supply chains.
Preceding her work with ALAN, Kathy was Senior Manager of Information Technology Services at Saddle Creek Logistics Services where she led IT infrastructure implementation and support, corporate systems, and business continuity planning.
Kathy holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Northwestern State University of Louisiana and Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida.
Mary Long
Mary is the CEO of Abgility, on a mission to create more able and agile supply chains. She is a board advisor to ALAN, the American Logistics Aid Network, and a Lecturer at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Her food industry expertise comes from executive SC leadership roles at Domino’s and Campbell’s Soup, with early career roles at General Mills, and Pepsi. Her areas of expertise include accelerating public-private humanitarian partnerships, advancing digital supply chain strategies which enable customer-focused supply chain execution.
Christine Moore
Christine Moore is VP of Supply Chain, Compliance and Food Service. She has been with M&M Food Market since 2019 and during that time has held the roles of National Lead, Supply Chain & Procurement and VP, Innovation & Supply Chain. Now as VP, Supply Chain, Compliance & Food Service, Christine’s unwavering commitment to food safety remains her focus to ensure the safe, timely, efficient, and uninterrupted flow of products to M&M Food Market’s network of stores across Canada. With Parkland’s recent acquisition of M&M Food Market, Christine took on the added responsibility of leading a new Food Service team to develop a quick-serve concept using M&M Food Market products to offer freshly prepared, best-in-class food offerings in a convenience setting.
With more than 30 years of experience in CPG, retail, and food service, Christine brings her passion for innovation, food safety, and people to the table each day. Christine holds a Master of Business Administration, Food and Agribusiness Management specialization from the University of Guelph, and accreditation from the Canadian Professional Logistics Institute and Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.
