Bonnie Canal

Business Continuity Advisor

Bonnie Canal, MBCP is an internationally recognized leader in both community and business resilience innovations and strategies. She assists in creating comprehensive solutions for organizations by understanding the role they play in community preparedness and resiliency.

Bonnie continues her resiliency consulting for organizations, communities, and non-profits while traveling the US engaging in conversations at the community level. She is a proud native of New Orleans and has experienced what she calls, “The Katrina, Rita, Ike, Gustav, and BP Oil Spill” disasters firsthand. Bonnie has worked in the field of Community Resiliency for 16 years and while bringing with her 30 years of work experience within the Information Technology Sector.

Bonnie is a certified trainer for the Disaster Recovery Institute training professionals from all industry sectors with the following classes: Business Continuity Introduction, Business Continuity Review, and Pandemic Preparedness for Organizations. Bonnie holds the DRI Master Business Continuity Professional certification and was awarded the DRI 2020 Program Leader of the Year Non-Profit Sector for her work with Evacuteer.org. She is a DRI Foundation Board Member and Chair of the Volunteer Committee.