DuraBante's CORE Practice

Build a More Resilient, Aligned, and Operationally Stronger Organization
 
Disruption is no longer a distant possibility. It is a reality every organization must be prepared to face - whether caused by operational breakdowns, workforce gaps, cyber incidents, severe weather, supply chain disruption, technology outages, or leadership decision bottlenecks.
DuraBante’s CORE Practice - Continuous Optimization for Resilient Enterprises - helps organizations reduce downtime, strengthen operational resilience, and build continuity with confidence.
CORE integrates business resilience and organizational transformation to help clients identify what matters most:
  • Protect critical operations
  • Improve workflows
  • Clarify decision-making
  • Strengthen governance
  • Build practical capabilities that hold up under pressure
This isn't resilience as a paperwork exercise. This is resilience as an operating advantage.
 
Why CORE Matters
Many organizations treat resilience, continuity planning, process improvement, governance, and organizational change as separate efforts. CORE brings them together.
As we identify critical functions, we uncover operational dependencies and inefficiencies. As we develop continuity and recovery strategies, we strengthen workflows and accountability. As we build crisis management and incident response capabilities, we help leaders make faster, clearer, and more coordinated decisions during disruption.
The result is a practical, execution-focused approach that helps organizations withstand disruption while improving how they operate every day.
 
What CORE Helps Organizations Do
Through the CORE Practice, DuraBante helps organizations:
  • Reduce downtime and disruption impact
  • Strengthen continuity and recovery readiness
  • Improve leadership decision-making during disruption
  • Clarify roles, responsibilities, governance, and escalation paths
  • Align people, processes, technology, vendors, and priorities
  • Identify critical functions, dependencies, vulnerabilities, and recovery gaps
  • Build scalable and sustainable resilience programs
  • Validate readiness through training, exercises, and rehearsal
CORE Capability Pathways:
 
Business Impact Analysis
We help organizations identify critical functions, dependencies, impacts, and recovery requirements so leaders understand what must recover, how quickly, and what is required to keep the business operating.
 
Business Unit Continuity Plans
We develop practical continuity plans at the department or business-unit level, documenting recovery strategies, workarounds, escalation steps, and actions that support continuity where work is actually performed.
 
Enterprise Continuity of Operations Plans
We align department-level recovery requirements into an enterprise continuity framework that supports leadership decision-making, prioritization, coordination, and mission continuity during disruption.
 
Crisis Management and Incident Response
We help organizations define leadership structures, escalation pathways, communication protocols, coordination mechanisms, and response procedures so leaders can act with clarity under pressure.
 
Training and Exercises
We design and facilitate training, tabletop exercises, functional exercises, and rehearsals that validate readiness, expose gaps, and help organizations improve before a real disruption occurs.
 
Business Resilience + Organizational Transformation
CORE is different because it doesn't stop at continuity planning. It connects resilience with operational discipline, governance, change management, and continuous improvement.
That means clients aren't just receiving a plan. They're building a more resilient operating model.
 
Our approach draws from recognized practices in business continuity, process improvement, operational model development, risk and controls, change management, governance, training, and program delivery.

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Amy Bennett

Vice President & Practice Lead, Business Resilience

Amy Bennett leads DuraBante’s Business Resilience practice, helping organizations strengthen their ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from operational disruptions. Her work focuses on aligning leadership, processes, and governance structures so organizations can maintain continuity while improving long-term resilience.

Amy brings extensive experience in resilience planning, continuity programs, organizational alignment, and operational readiness. She works closely with executive leadership teams to develop practical strategies that enhance preparedness, improve decision-making, and ensure organizations can sustain operations during periods of disruption or uncertainty.

Brian Burdette

Vice President & Practice Lead, Organizational Transformation

Brian Burdette leads DuraBante’s Organizational Transformation practice, helping organizations improve performance by strengthening leadership alignment, operational processes, and workforce engagement. His work focuses on helping organizations clarify priorities, streamline operations, and implement practical improvements that deliver measurable results.

Brian has deep experience supporting complex organizations as they navigate operational change, improve governance structures, and strengthen execution across teams. Through structured approaches to leadership alignment, process improvement, and organizational effectiveness, he helps clients translate strategy into sustained operational performance.

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