About

Edward Minyard

 

Ed has over 40 years of experience in providing advisory services, with a keen focus on risk management, security, incident management and processes related to business continuity. His professional certifications include: Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP); Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)(Ret); Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and others. He has been actively involved in providing leadership during some of the largest disasters ever to impact North America.

 

Ed's most recent novel - Complacency: One Man's Story - exposes the perils of disregarding current global events and underestimating potential threats in our crisis-filled world.  

 

He is also the author of After Disaster: An Insider’s Perspective from the Heart of Chaos; The Case; and Decisive Judgement – all available through Amazon.com. Ed is a frequent speaker on the topics of crisis management and preparedness. He has keynoted conferences for the American Bankers Association, The Retail Industry Leaders Association, Loss Prevention Magazine, and The International Association of Emergency Managers.

 

Ed has also written dozens of songs, some of which can be heard here:

 

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/eddie-minyard/1389084273

 

Ed is a Grandmaster (9th-degree black belt) in the art of Taekwondo and has been inducted into the Official Taekwondo Hall of Fame and the US Kido Black Belt Hall of Fame. He lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, with his lovely wife Joy and their two insane pups, Tucker and Gunner.