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Preparedness Labs Incorporated

Business Continuity for Founders — Self-Guided

Business Continuity for Founders — Self-Guided

$300.00 CAD
$300.00 CAD
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A founder-led business can be running extremely well—and still be one unavailable person, account, platform, contractor, or critical relationship away from serious disruption.

Business Continuity for Founders — Self-Guided is a practical preparedness program designed specifically for solo and founder-led service businesses.

Across five focused modules, you will map how your business actually works, identify the people, technology, access, information, and relationships it depends on, determine which dependencies matter most, and build practical safeguards around the critical few

By the end of the program, you will have built:

  • A clear map of how your business operates
  • An inventory of the dependencies supporting critical activities
  • A prioritized register of your most important dependencies
  • Practical safeguards and alternatives
  • A focused 90-Day Preparedness Plan
  • A repeatable quarterly process for reviewing and testing your preparedness

This is not enterprise business-continuity theory adapted to a smaller company. It is a practical system built around the realities of running a founder-led business.

You do not need to prepare for everything. You need to understand what your business cannot easily afford to lose—and protect the critical few.

 

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Most Business Fragility Is Hidden Until Something Stops Working.

Your business may appear simple and efficient because you have deliberately kept it lean. But that can also create hidden dependencies.

What happens if you are unavailable for two weeks? A critical account is locked? A trusted contractor disappears? A major client leaves? Or a platform you rely on goes down?

The problem is not dependency. Every business has dependencies. The problem is discovering a critical dependency only after it becomes unavailable.

This program helps you find those dependencies before disruption does.

A Practical Five-Step Business Preparedness System

  • 1. Understand

    Recognize how disruption can reach your business and where dependence on you may create vulnerability.

  • 2. Map

    Put your business on one page and identify the people, technology, access, information, and relationships it depends on.

  • 3. Prioritize

    Determine which dependencies could cause the greatest disruption and identify the critical few.

  • 4. Protect

    Build practical safeguards and alternatives around the dependencies your business cannot easily afford to lose.

  • 5. Maintain

    Review, test, and update your preparedness every 90 days as your business changes.

By the End, You Will Have Built a Preparedness System for Your Business

This is not a course you simply watch. You will use your own business information throughout the program to build a practical preparedness system around the way your business actually operates.

By the end, you will have:

• A clear map of how your business operates
• An inventory of dependencies supporting your critical activities
• A prioritized register of your most critical dependencies
• Practical safeguards and alternatives for the critical few
• A focused 90-Day Preparedness Plan
• A quarterly process to review, test, and update your preparedness

You are not trying to eliminate every risk. You are building the clarity and practical alternatives needed to make your business harder to disrupt.

You are not trying to eliminate every risk. You are building the clarity and practical alternatives needed to make your business harder to disrupt.

Built for Founder-Led Businesses

  • This Program Is Designed For

    Solo and founder-led service businesses where the founder remains central to sales, delivery, decisions, relationships, or access.

  • Especially Useful If

    Your business depends heavily on a small number of people, digital platforms, accounts, contractors, clients, or other relationships that would be difficult to replace quickly.

Everything You Need to Build the System Yourself

Business Continuity for Founders — Self-Guided gives you a structured path through the complete Preparedness Labs methodology, while allowing you to work at your own pace using your own business.

Your program includes:

Five focused learning modules — moving sequentially from understanding your vulnerabilities to maintaining your preparedness over time.

Practical implementation workbooks — designed to help you apply each module directly to your own business rather than simply consume the material.

A complete five-step methodology — Understand → Map → Prioritize → Protect → Maintain.

A 90-Day Preparedness Plan — so the program ends with a focused set of actions you can actually implement.

A repeatable quarterly review process — giving you a simple way to keep your preparedness current as your business changes.

CAD $300 — one-time purchase.

Work through the program at your own pace and build the system around the business you actually run.

Build My Preparedness System

Want Help Building It?

The Self-Guided program is designed for founders who are comfortable working through the system independently.

If you would rather build your preparedness system with me, Preparedness Labs also offers a Private Preparedness Advisory. We work together to map your business, identify and prioritize your critical dependencies, develop practical safeguards, and build your 90-Day Preparedness Plan around your specific business.

Self-Guided: CAD $300

Private Advisory: CAD $3,000

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Practical Preparedness Built From Real-World Experience

Preparedness Labs was founded by Dr. Jeff Donaldson to make the principles of business continuity, risk management, and operational resilience practical for smaller founder-led businesses.

Jeff brings experience from military logistics and operational planning, emergency and disaster management, higher education, and business continuity. He teaches Disaster & Emergency Management at the university level and has spent his career working with the consequences of disruption, dependency, and operational uncertainty.

Business Continuity for Founders takes those disciplines and removes the enterprise complexity—giving founders a practical system they can actually use.

No fear. No hype. No unnecessary complexity.

Build a Business That Is Harder to Disrupt.

You do not need to prepare for everything.

You need to understand what your business cannot easily afford to lose, protect the critical few, and build a simple process for keeping your preparedness current.

Business Continuity for Founders — Self-Guided

Five modules. Practical workbooks. Your business. Your preparedness system.

CAD $300 — one-time purchase.

Build My Preparedness System