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984.1-The Road to Resilience: The Board's Responsibility at AREA Annual Meeting

Date: Apr 7, 2026   2026-04-07 2026-04-07 America/Chicago 984.1-The Road to Resilience: The Board's Responsibility at AREA Annual Meeting Succeeding in today’s electric industry requires more than the safe delivery of reliable and affordable energy. It requires resilience. This highly interactive course will define resilience, how building it is vital for cooperatives now and discuss the role of the board in creating it. Participants will discuss the oversite role in board resilience in such areas as power supply, cybersecurity, supply chain, workforce (winning the war for talent), and grid hardening. The course closes with a focus on personal resilience and how it can be built on a personal level as well as in the boardroom.KEY TOPICS:  Recognize key elements of a resilient leader during times of transition and uncertainty. Foster an organizational culture that effectively brings individual talents and resources together to work towards a common goal. Put the principles of resiliency into action when facing challenges stemming from supply chain disruptions, fuel and generation diversity, cybersecurity, new technologies and workforce acquisition. Assess your own obstacles to personal resiliency. Identify ways to improve resiliency of the cooperative board. Unknown Alabama Rural Electric Association

Succeeding in today’s electric industry requires more than the safe delivery of reliable and affordable energy. It requires resilience. This highly interactive course will define resilience, how building it is vital for cooperatives now and discuss the role of the board in creating it. Participants will discuss the oversite role in board resilience in such areas as power supply, cybersecurity, supply chain, workforce (winning the war for talent), and grid hardening. The course closes with a focus on personal resilience and how it can be built on a personal level as well as in the boardroom.
KEY TOPICS:

 Recognize key elements of a resilient leader during times of transition and uncertainty.
 Foster an organizational culture that effectively brings individual talents and resources together to work towards a common goal.
 Put the principles of resiliency into action when facing challenges stemming from supply chain disruptions, fuel and generation diversity, cybersecurity, new technologies and workforce acquisition.
 Assess your own obstacles to personal resiliency.
 Identify ways to improve resiliency of the cooperative board.

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