Business Resiliency · AI Risk · Leadership

Abbey Hernandez

Business Resiliency Director, JPMorgan Chase
Speaker · Author · Thought Leader

"Resilience is a culture. Not a checklist."

Abbey Hernandez
DRJ Magazine
Published Author
August 2026
Latest

"When the Playbook Fails: Why Traditional BCP Frameworks Weren't Built for AI"  — Forthcoming in Disaster Recovery Journal, August 2026

About

Most leaders don't think about resilience until something breaks.

I've spent my career making sure it doesn't.

As Business Resiliency Director for Consumer & Community Banking at JPMorgan Chase, I lead the strategy, programs, and global team responsible for keeping one of the world's largest financial institutions operational when the unexpected happens — cyberattacks, extreme weather, operational failures, and now the emerging risks that AI adoption introduces at scale.

After 20+ years in financial services, I've learned that the difference between organizations that survive disruption and those that don't almost always comes down to culture, communication, and leadership — not technology or policy. And now AI is changing the equation entirely.

That's what I write and speak about.

Credentials
Speaking

A practitioner's perspective
on the risks no one is naming yet.

The Resilience Gap: Why AI Needs Leaders Who Think Like Risk Managers

AI failures don't behave like human failures — they're silent, fast, and systemic. Most business continuity frameworks weren't built for that. This talk gives audiences a new mental model for AI-driven operational risk, introduces the concept of the Vanishing Fallback, and delivers a practical framework for stress-testing organizational assumptions before a crisis does it for them.

Why AI failures are categorically different from human-scale failures
Three questions every leader should ask before deploying AI at scale
The Vanishing Fallback — the gap nobody is talking about
A framework for evolving BCP to match the pace of AI adoption
What AI-specific recovery and detection actually requires
How to protect institutional knowledge as a strategic asset
Keynote 45–60 min Featured Session 30 min Panel Corporate Workshop
Get in Touch

Speaking inquiries,
media & consulting.

Available for keynotes, featured sessions, panels, corporate workshops, and consulting engagements on AI resilience and operational risk. Based in North Texas — available to travel.

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