The CBCMP Certified Business Continuity Management Professional™ is a comprehensive, practitioner-focused certification designed to equip professionals with the advanced knowledge, frameworks, tools, and strategic insight required to build, implement, test, and continuously improve business continuity management systems (BCMS) and organizational resilience in the high-velocity, interconnected risk environment.

The program is built around the ISO 22301:2019 standard (BCMS requirements), ISO 22316:2017 (organizational resilience principles), and DORA (EU financial sector resilience mandates), while integrating cyber resilience (NIST), climate risk (IFRS S2), AI disruption (EU AI Act), third-party dependencies, and hybrid work realities.

Participants learn how to move beyond basic continuity planning to deliver strategic resilience — minimizing downtime, protecting critical operations, safeguarding reputation & stakeholder trust, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enabling rapid recovery and adaptation to disruptions (cyber-attacks, supply-chain failures, climate events, geopolitical shocks, pandemics, AI system outages).

Through real-world case studies, interactive workshops, risk & impact simulations, tabletop exercises, peer feedback, and a capstone BCMS implementation project, attendees gain practical, reusable tools and executive-level confidence.

• Achieve full alignment with BCM & resilience standards (ISO 22301:2019, ISO 22316:2017, DORA, NIST, IFRS S2, EU AI Act)

• Master end-to-end BCMS lifecycle: policy → risk/impact assessment → strategy → planning → testing → improvement

• Build practical capability in business impact analysis (BIA), risk assessment, recovery strategies, and continuous monitoring

• Learn to integrate BCM with cyber resilience, third-party risk, climate/physical risks, and AI disruption scenarios

• Develop skills to design & facilitate realistic exercises (tabletop, simulation, full-scale) and derive actionable lessons learned

• Strengthen board & executive oversight of resilience (risk appetite, critical operations, reporting)

• Prepare for regulatory assurance & audit (DORA testing, ISO certification, internal audit scrutiny)

• Gain reusable tools: BIA templates, continuity strategy matrices, exercise design guides, resilience maturity assessments

• Earn a prestigious, contemporary credential that signals leadership in organizational resilience

• Immediately apply enhanced BCM knowledge to reduce downtime, protect reputation, ensure compliance, and support strategic recovery

This program is designed for professionals who currently have business continuity, resilience, risk, crisis, or recovery responsibilities — or anticipate taking them on in the near future — across all sectors and experience levels.

Ideal participants include those in (or preparing for) roles in:

• Business Continuity Management / Resilience / Recovery

• Risk Management / Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

• Crisis Management / Incident Response / Emergency Management

• Operational Resilience / Third-Party Risk / Supply Chain Risk

• Cybersecurity / IT Disaster Recovery / Digital Resilience

• Internal Audit / Assurance / Controls (BCM oversight)

• Compliance & Regulatory Affairs (DORA, ISO 22301)

• Operations / Production / Service Delivery Management

• Senior Management / Executives accountable for continuity & resilience

• Board Directors / Risk / Audit Committee Members (resilience oversight)

• Consultants & Advisors supporting BCM, resilience, or crisis programs

GAFM - Global Academy of Finance and Management

The GAFM was founded in 1996 by the original founders of the Graduate Leadership Society. The Founders of our Standards Board are CEOs, Executives, Professors, and industry experts from around the globe. We desire to raise education standards and ethics in the business and management industries. The Standards Policy Board awards specialized board certifications, designations, and charters in the fields of: finance, accounting, management, and consulting fields to qualified professionals who have completed internationally recognized or accredited exams & education, government recognized degrees and documented management credentials and experience. Since 1996, the Academy has been promoting accredited graduate standards for certification in business, management, law, and finance. Since the inception with the founding of the Graduate Institute of Leadership in 1996, the Academy has been focused on quality assurance with accredited education, exams, assessment, education, ethics, and continuing education. Further, applicants must also have the necessary experience in practice, research or publications in their respective areas of expertise.