Donna Speckhard

Risk Advisor | Fannie Mae

Donna is an Internationally recognized risk and resilience advisor with 20+ years of experience working with Federal, State, local, NGOs, international governments and corporations. Donna has a proven track record of leading organizations in identifying, analyzing, mitigating emerging threats and risks through solution-oriented problem-solving. 

She is a published thought leader with a passion for Operational Risk and Resilience. A problem-solver of large, complex, cross-functional challenges and an advocate of using gamification, microsimulations, and thinking outside the box problem solving techniques. She has presented in 2024 at numerous conferences on the subject of risk and resilience advantages and adversities of the use of Artificial Intelligence. 

She sits on the Advisory Board for the Women in Leadership Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, as well as, the Advisory Board for MIT’s Resilience Courses where she also guest lectures as part of the program. She is a member of the Disaster Recovery Institute’s Women in Business Continuity Group and a mentor for TPRA’s Mentorship Program. She is a thought leader, a sought-after speaker at various industry conferences, and a published author.