The Resiliency Institute
Business & Community Resilience
Ready for the worst day.
And the hardest year.
OUR STORY
The Resiliency Institute (TRI) is a New Orleans consulting firm founded in 2010 by Bonnie Canal. TRI was born in the years after Katrina, when Bonnie was advising hundreds of small businesses through the Louisiana SBDC and learning the lesson that has driven the work ever since: a community recovers at the speed of its small businesses, and small businesses do not recover alone. TRI works where businesses, banks, colleges, and civic leadership meet, because that is where resilience is actually built, before the bad day, in the same room, on purpose.
Our Services
Community Resilience Programs
Community & chamber-led dialogues that bring local businesses, their banks, and their colleges to one table before a shock hits. Built for chambers of commerce and economic development organizations that want a resilience program their members can use.
Training & Micro-Credentials
Nationally developed instruction, delivered by a FEMA and DRI authorized instructor. Includes train-the-trainer programs so local partners can lead sessions themselves, and two-hour micro-credential courses for business staff (risk basics, supply chain, data security) ending in a verifiable badge.
Business Continuity Consulting
Plans, reviews, and exercises for small and mid-sized organizations. Plain language, built to be used on the worst day, not filed for an auditor.
Speaking
Keynotes and working sessions on resilience for conferences, chambers, and leadership groups, drawn from thirty years of disasters, recoveries, and the businesses that survived them.
Bonnie Canal, MBCP
Bonnie Canal holds the MBCP, DRI International's highest certification, held by fewer than 700 people worldwide, with more than 30 years in business continuity and emergency management. She has trained in more than 250 communities as a FEMA instructor through the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center and is a DRI International authorized instructor. She created the audit process behind DRI's Hub of Resilience designation, advised roughly 375 small businesses through the Louisiana SBDC after Katrina, Rita, Ike, and Gustav, and wrote the City of New Orleans' assisted evacuation plan as Executive Director of Evacuteer.org, work that earned the 2020 DRI Award of Excellence for Program Leader of the Year. She chairs the DRI Foundation's Higher Education Committee and is a past national board chair of the Association of Continuity Professionals.
