Leadership Crisis Simulation at the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range

About the Program

Cyber security events related to public sector information systems can have a significant impact on the delivery of government programs and services to citizens and, consequently, confidence in government. The ability to respond to cyber security events in a consistent, coordinated, and timely manner across the government is essential to ensure the security and resilience of government programs and service delivery as well as confidence in government. The Leadership Crisis Simulation at the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range is designed to prepare leaders for future crisis situations using a carefully designed, realistic cyberattack crisis scenario.

Located in the University of Ottawa's Cyber Hub, the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range is globally unique in its structure. Operating in partnership with the international team of IBM's X-Force Cyber Range, it offers a full, immersive, and interactive training setting where students, businesses, and government organizations can experience real cyber response scenarios. Its role is also to raise public awareness and foster multidisciplinary research and collaboration between different stakeholders on how to anticipate, respond to, manage, contain, and remediate cyber-attacks.

Offered in partnership with the University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering at the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range.

Who Should Attend?

This program is tailored to public service leaders at the EX minus one to EX 4 level.

It particularly appropriate for leaders who have completed the Security Leadership for Chief Security Officers program and want to deepen their learning with a hands-on simulation.

For teams of 20 or more, this program is also available as a group training.

What You Will Learn

Through their participation in a highly immersive leadership crisis simulation experience, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Collaborate within and across organizational boundaries to resolve an emergency using appropriate leadership strategies and responses.
• Assess and apply appropriate processes and protocols, where they exist, to stabilize, assess, respond to, and resolve a rapidly evolving emergency.
• Act within the scope of their accountabilities and responsibilities to coordinate a crisis leadership response.
• Analyze and act on new information and situations as they emerge.
• Execute a crisis communication strategy that is both proactive and responsive.
• Explore the complexity and scope of the impact that cybersecurity events and insider threats have on the public sector.

Program Facilitators

James Clemens

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James Clemens is an accomplished leadership coach and project consultant specializing in organisational culture change. He has over two decades of professional experience in executive leadership development and organisational effectiveness. Prior to becoming a management consultant, James was a manager of executive leadership programs in the Public Service of Canada as well as a Senior Policy Advisor providing strategic advice to the most senior levels of government on enterprise-wide change initiatives. James has extensive international and multi-cultural experience developing, leading and coaching executives and project teams to produce unprecedented results.

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Marie Careau

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Marie Careau offers training and consulting services, in English and French. Her expertise covers topics such as verbal and non-verbal communication, public presentations, leadership, governance, intelligence, detecting deception, teamwork, conflict management, difficult conversations, priority management, operational efficiency, and management skills. 

Marie Careau has extensive experience in leadership positions within the Canadian Public Service, including more than 20 years in intelligence, national security, and investigation. She served for 15 years at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), including three years within the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC) and an international posting within the Direction Générale de la Sécurité extérieure (DGSE) in France. 

She was also executive director at the Intelligence Assessment Secretariat of the Privy Council Office, as well as executive director for the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command (CFINTCOM) at the Department of National Defense. 

During her career, she traveled to a dozen of countries as a guest speaker for workshops and conferences on intelligence and leadership. She participated to several discussion panels on intelligence, including the discussions of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in 2020-2021. She holds a Master’s in history (University of Ottawa), a Certificate from the Telfer School Canadian Security & Intelligence Leadership Program (University of Ottawa) and a Certificate of the LEADERS Program of the Faculty of Business Administration (Université Laval). 

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