Prepare: Define essential functions, leadership responsibilities, communication pathways, and support coordination before disruption. Include psychological and organizational consequences in exercises and planning.

Respond: Coordinate immediate decisions, accurate communications, and support alongside established emergency procedures. Make responsibility and escalation pathways clear.

Continue: Sustain essential learning and work while recognizing changes in staff capacity, community needs, routines, and confidence. Reopening does not end the leadership responsibility for recovery.

Recover: Review evolving needs, adjust support and operations, communicate deliberately, and capture lessons that strengthen future preparedness. Recovery priorities and review points should be explicit.

The cycle is a planning framework, not a clinical treatment model or a guarantee of outcomes. AJ can facilitate a leadership discussion, continuity assessment, or exercise tailored to your institution.