A clear understanding of a company s operating environment and its strengths and weaknesses enables a better management of the uncertainty related to adversities and threats, promoting organizational resilience. For a systemic implementation of resilience in an organization, the Environmental and Behavioral dimensions (at the individual and organizational levels) must be supported by strategic management actions. In order to understand how management practices can boost organizational resilience, the Strategic Management of Organizational Resilience (SMOR) framework was developed and qualitatively validated in five Brazilian organizations of different sizes and operating in different sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The content analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with leaders of these organizations identified aspects in common as well as factors not addressed in the SMOR framework. Regarding the aspects in common, studied companies perceive financial reserves as necessary to effectively manage their businesses, use past crises to develop learning and decision-making capabilities and then facilitate response agility, and develop new products/services quickly for business continuity. On the other hand, team empowerment, horizontal management, and the strengthening of organizational values not addressed in the SMOR framework were important factors in past crises for these companies. We conclude the SMOR framework can help organizations from different sectors and of different sizes and levels of complexity perform systematic analyses of processes, strengths and weaknesses, internal and external scenarios, thus favoring a strategic management of organizational resilience.