As Canada's wildfire seasons become more intense, are organizations investing enough in resilience, or are we still treating disruptions as exceptions rather than expectations?

Organizational Project Management

Zakaria Botros

Community Champion

Project Manager | Driving Clean Energy Innovations for a Sustainable Future| Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ontario, Canada

Wildfires are impacting communities, supply chains, infrastructure, employee well-being, and business continuity across Canada. With hundreds of active fires and ongoing evacuations reported this season, resilience planning is becoming a strategic necessity, not just an operational exercise.

Question: How prepared is your organization to adapt when a major disruption directly affects your people, suppliers, or operations?

Posted: Jul 21, 2026 10:09 AM

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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

An important question.
While many organizations are investing more in resilience, it is often still designed around known scenarios rather than the capability to adapt when disruptions take unexpected forms.
Wildfires highlight the challenge, but they are one example of a broader pattern of increasingly interconnected disruptions.
Perhaps the key question is not whether we are investing enough in resilience, but whether we are building organizations that can detect change early, adapt quickly, and continue delivering critical outcomes even when the disruption differs from the scenarios we anticipated.
Resilience is ultimately less about preparing for the next event than about strengthening the organizational capacity to respond to whatever comes next.

Posted: Jul 21, 2026 3:08 PM

Akin Fadare

Community Champion

Ontario, Canada

Good question Zakaria Botros.
I believe every organization should have an emergency response plan and treat every emergency as a risk that requires an owner and a contingency plan, especially with regular yearly events like wildfires, which are expected in various parts of remote communities in Canada. Given the situation in Northern Ontario, I believe the central issue is a gap in the system that contributed to people evacuating their communities. There is a fund in place and a response plan in place, so someone must have neglected their duty or the bureaucratic process.

Posted: Jul 21, 2026 4:00 PM

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As Canada's wildfire seasons become more intense, are organizations investing enough in resilience, or are we still treating disruptions as exceptions rather than expectations?

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