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Chief Resilience Officer (CRO)

The first Master’s program in Italy shaping the strategic and pivotal professional figure for the development of organizations and businesses

The chief resilience officer (CRO) is a key figure who transforms the way organizations respond to adverse situations, turning challenges into growth opportunities. They play a crucial role in managing and coordinating complex systems, including human, territorial, urban, financial, environmental, health, and cultural aspects.

 

How?

  • Assesses risk situations and mitigates their negative outcomes;
  • Analyzes the impact of risks, verifies existing procedures, and identifies those to be adopted to ensure process continuity;
  • Intervenes at different levels in the planning, design, and management of strategies and solutions.

 

Why CRO?

For participants:
A new and exclusive top opportunity for professional evolution and advancement.

For businesses and public administrations:

The up-to-date guarantee of growth, protection, and development.

The master

It is multidisciplinary, with university professors and representatives/experts from companies, organizations, and local institutions. It develops skills typical of the resilient system – reflective, robust, redundant, flexible, resourceful, inclusive, and integrated – and promotes the training of professionals who can promote innovative, fair, responsible, and sustainable processes, generating an advantage for all stakeholders involved.

The University of Tuscia and Lyve Srl train professionals who apply the methodology of resilience to the uncertainties, risks, ambiguities, and unpredictabilities of the Information Society ecosystems.

  • To whom is it addressed?

    • Students with a Bachelor’s degree.
    • Managers from private and public companies, public administrations, board members, managers of HR, Communication, Purchasing, Audit & Compliance, Legal, Organization, DPO, IT, CISO, CSO functions.
    • Those who want to acquire tools and action models useful for enhancing the “resilience” level of public and private enterprises.

  • Didactics

    To reconcile training and work, it is organized in a blended learning mode. Activities follow a learning-by-doing approach for frontal teaching, as well as other forms of study activities, applied projects on territories, and interdisciplinary case studies (labs and workshops).

    Internship activities at institutions and companies complement the Master’s program.

  • Information for enrollment

    The minimum number of enrollees required for the course to be activated is 10, while the maximum number of available seats is 30.

    Criteria and admission procedures: Admission to the Master’s program is subject to the establishment of a ranking based on qualifications. In case the number of applications exceeds the maximum number of admitted students, access to the course is subject to evaluation by a dedicated committee. The Master’s program admits 3 auditors who can attend the course by paying a registration fee of 3,500 euros. Auditors will not be awarded a certificate. Public Administration (PA) employees will receive a 50% reduction in the registration fee for the Master’s program.

    Duration: The Master’s program awards 60 ECTS credits and lasts for 12 months, totaling 360 hours of training.

    Registration fee: The registration fee is 7,000 euros.

    The deadline for admission applications is set for December 2023. You can apply by visiting the official call for page.

  • Modules

    The master’s program includes the following modules:

    1. Organizational resilience as a conceptual and metric model.
    2. Regulatory profiles and compliance.
    3. Risk management and the role of the Chief Resilience Officer (CRO).
    4. Organizational models and assumption of responsibilities.
    5. Resilience to mitigate “ESG” risk factors.
    6. Digitalization and the role of the CRO.
    7. CRO as a business (wo)man or politician?
    8. Governing environmental and digital transition.
    9. Stakeholder engagement management processes.
    10. Corporate marketing and communication processes.
    11. Territory and business: geo-spatial models, vulnerabilities, and resilience.
    12. Sustainability of emotions (ethics in an integrated economy) in work processes.

    For more details about the modules, you can refer to the respective brochure.