Automata’s Executive Training programme is led by the winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award (BCI & Corporate Insurance & Risk Magazine 2000). Our Head of Executive BCM Training, Jim Burtles, is a founding Fellow of the BCI and served for 7 Years as the Standards Officer. He is a well known international speaker with a wealth of experience that includes Business Continuity assignments in 22 countries in many sectors including national and local government, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail and finance industries. He has been delivering the famous Business Continuity Masterclass now for over 15 years during which time he has introduced over 1200 practitioners to the subject.

His principal innovations to date have included many diverse concepts. He developed the Backlog Trap, which is now commonly accepted as a basic element of Business Continuity Management. He was responsible for the introduction of Catastrophe Theory and Organic Integrity Modeling to Disaster Recovery. His Power Training is a unique learning process that he has developed from his Games Theory. It provides a powerful way of extending the intellectual horizons of senior executives through inventive role playing.
The latest product from this stable of ideas is the concept of Operational Governance that underpins and extends the notion of Corporate Governance by providing a practical operational model to support the aims of Governance.