Linda Hanwacker - Winner BCI AWARD

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Linda Hanwacker, on May 30, 2018, has been awarded the prestigious honor of Business Continuity & Resiliency Consultant of the year.

Linda Hanwacker is the President, CEO/Founder of The LSH Group, LLC.  

The LSH Group is a professional services group for Business Continuity, Continuity of Operations, Emergency Management and IT Disaster Recovery Planning. Linda is the lead senior consultant, and disaster recovery industry professional subject matter expert.

The LSH Group works closely with Businesses/ Government Agencies in their various business continuity planning efforts. Linda is an experienced executive leader with over 30 years addressing IT and BC/DR planning initiatives. Linda has held several executive positions.

Linda holds an MBA in Finance, MS in Computer Science and an Executive Leadership Certification. She has completed all the requirements as a Certified Business Continuity Professional.

Linda is an accomplished author writing several IT and Business Continuity books. She has also published several business continuity white papers. She writes articles that have are published in ICOR, CEO Magazine, SiliconIndia, Disaster Resource Journal, Southwest Florida Business and other industry publications. She is an adjunct professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) and Florida Southwestern College (FSW) in Fort Myers, Florida. She has designed her own BC/DR course for FGCU.

Prior to The LSH Group, at AT&T, Linda was the Director of BC/DR Professional Services. Linda managed the implementation of the $30+ million BC/DR program that included managing and planning for all core AT&T network operations. Her team played a major recovery effort for NYC.