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Emergency Managment Leadership the Skills we Need May 23, 2019

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This week we are discussing leadership and how we can shape the field of emergency management. Jocko Willink in his book Extreme Ownership lays out the path on how to be a good leader. Now it is time to take those principles and implement them in Emergency Management.
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Emergency Management and Our Role in Sustainability May 16, 2019

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This week we talk to Dr. Robert Schneider about the sustainability and emergency management. As we are in the Recovery, and Mitigation phases we need to consider the impacts of building codes, zoning and land use. Sustainability is part of what we as emergency managers do.
Guest Bio
Robert O. Schneider holds a PhD in political science and is professor of public administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He has researched and written on leading policy issues where science and politics intersect; his recent efforts have extended to emergency management (practice and policy), with a focus on sustainability and hazard resilience. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles, he has written and published two books: Emergency Management and Sustainability: Defining a Profession and Managing the Climate Crisis: Assessing our Risks, Options, and Prospects.
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Website: https://www.uncp.edu/profile/dr-robert-o-schneider
Email: robert.schneider@uncp.edu
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EM Weekly Live May 09, 2019

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Today this is a bonus show just to talk to the EM Subscribers. We are doing some cool things here at the New Sitch Radio Studios in Orange County California.
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Leading Emergency Management the PJ Way May 09, 2019

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This week we are talking about the Air Force PJ leadership style. Leading a dynamic organization such as an office of emergency management can be challenging. I had the opportunity to Lt.Col Joseph Barnard who worked his way from enlisted to lead the highly trained Air Force Para Jumpers Rescue Team (PJ). The insights that Joseph shares with us in this interview will change your paradigm on leadership.
Guest Bio
Bio - Joe Barnard is a retired USAF Lt Colonel. His 33 year military career started in
1982 when he joined the Army as infantryman at the age of 17 from his parents
home in Pembroke Pines, FL. After his Army career, which included living in Vicenza
Italy for two years, Joe returned to South Florida and worked varying warehouse
and delivery driver jobs as well as being a lifeguard at
several South Florida beaches.
In 1988, Joe joined the USAF, 301 st Rescue Squadron at
Homestead AFB as a Pararescueman. He remained in
the 301 st through Hurricane Andrew, and helped
facilitate the unit’s move to Patrick AFB. Joe married
Meghan in 1991. With a one-year-old son and another
on the way, in 1997, he took a position as a Pararescue
Instructor at Kirtland AFB, NM. Joe was qualified to
teach and lead all blocks of instruction: Aircraft and Jump Ops, Weapons-Tactics,
Technical Rope, C2 and Dirt Medicine. He was also a member of the Special Tactics
and Recovery Specialist (STaRS) Parachute Demonstration Team.
With a stern push from a young wife who wanted a better life for her family, in 1998
Joe started college and received his bachelor’s degree in 2000 by attending classes
every weekend from 7-5 both Saturday and Sunday, ultimately leading to his
commission as an officer in February of 2001. Joe was selected out of OTS as the 4th
Combat Rescue Officer, a new career field the Air Force created to lead and
command Pararescueman and SERE specialist. Joe completes his masters degree in
2007.
His last 15 years as an officer were a blur except for those two tours in Hawaii. Lots
of surfing and SEA travel. When not in the Pacific, multiple deployments presented
complex leadership challenges which he took head on. Post 9/11 years were
bookend by death of teammates and success in harrowing missions. In the middle
was a tour as the first CRO to command the Pararescue School, where he was fired
after a year. That assignment is a book in itself.
During his entire career, Joe unapologetically took on the overwhelming briefcase
attitude of the conventional Air Force with his backpack mentality on behalf of his
mission and men. Ultimate career satisfaction came as Joe was selected for and had
two amazing years as the 38 th Rescue Squadron Commander. He and his team did it
right, pushing forward many progressive training methods that are still in place
today.
As Joe turned 52, and his youngest son was a year away from College. It was time.
He had done all he could do. Admittedly, he grew dissatisfied with DoD direction
and with the vice grip sequestration and continuing resolution put on the force. He
purposely retired without fan fair. Fully satisfied that he left it all on the table and
energized to be a capitalist in his next life. But first…
A sabbatical at the end of 2016 and throughout 2017 was well deserved. As Joe had
done with his oldest son, he taught his youngest son to skydive and they took a
couple of surf trips to Costa Rica and Baja. Once he was in in college, Meghan and Joe
put their household belongings in storage and traveled Southeast Asia – Singapore,
Bali and Thailand for four months.
Back in the states, his job search started in early 2018. “It was fun, I interviewed
them more than they interviewed me. I want my second life to be epic.”
Joe settled on a small company that installs wireless infrastructure for Verizon and
TMobile. He loves it, its complex. He has daily influence over 32m in revenue, as he
quickly took to running the sales pipeline, P&L of three divisions, HR, logistics and
all operations. Likely not Joe’s final resting place.
“I desire more responsibility, complexity and a more progressive executive team to
work with, but I started in a great place for my capitalistic journey. I validated that
my military leadership traits and problem solving abilities absolutely transfer to a
for profit organization. I love every minute of it. Meghan and I have big plans for our
future.”
Joe and Meghan reside in Neptune Beach, a costal community in Jacksonville FL.
Concerned by the high divorce rate and broken families a military life can create.
They are developing a program to help young married Special Operation couples not
only stay, but thrive together during and after their service to this great nation.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephbarnard/
Email: Joe.bd.33@gmail.com
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Using EM in Post Conflict Stabilization May 02, 2019

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This week we are talking to Kyle King about rebuilding nations after war. In today’s world we are not short of human caused disasters, war, terrorist attacks, and more. Kyle is using the skills of emergency management to help rebuild these nations.
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Mr. King is from the United States and has spent over 25 years in the Fire and Emergency Services and international crisis management field. Starting his career in the US Marine Corps, Mr. King then deployed as a civilian in support of US Army Europe operations in Bosnia and tasked with establishing the first DoD Emergency Services certification program for non-US personnel. At the rank of Assistant Chief of Operations and Training, Mr. King transitioned to Afghanistan in 2007 where he supported ongoing coalition operations in prevention and force protection, with an assignment in Bagram and Kabul.In 2009, Mr. King was selected as the “first of its kind” Civil Protection/Crisis Response Advisor hired by NATO to support ongoing security sector reform in Kosovo. Mr. King developed national response capabilities, national exercises, and performance metrics directly contributing to NATO’s declaration of Full Operational Capacity for the Kosovo Security Force in 2013. Appointed as the Policy and Plans Chief, a senior civilian post in the organization, Mr. King also served as the Deputy Chief of Staff. From 2013 to 2016 Mr. King designed, developed, and directed NATO’s new effort in capacity building, education, and training in Kosovo. In 2017, Mr. King formed Capacity Building International in order to support organizations and partners with the implementation of international development programs. Mr. King is certified as a Chief Fire Officer within the US Department of Defense, with a Masters of Arts in Diplomacy from Norwich University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Business/Public Administration. Mr. King has received numerous awards and recognitions, most recently the NATO Meritorious Service Medal for Civilian Staff for his work in building NATO’s capacity building and education platform for Kosovo.
About CBI: BUILDING CAPACITY THROUGH ADAPTIVE AND FLEXIBLE, EXPERTISE IN FIELDS SUCH AS EDUCATION, CRISIS MANAGEMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.As a small boutique consultancy team, we tend to focus on capacity building within the international environment, however, we do provide support to, and have developed projects where the primary focus is education and training of organizational and/or national structures. Our more recent initiatives have focused more on building education, experiential learning, experimentation, or development programs where the focus is on building more resilient and stable communities.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylek-us/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CapBldgInt
Website: https://www.capacitybuildingint.com
Email: Email:info@capacitybuildingint.com
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What’s Your Plan Putting the Culture of Preparedness To Work Apr 25, 2019

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This week we are talking to James DeMeo the author of What’s You Plan. We discuss the culture of preparedness and how we can encourage people to be vigilant about their soundings. In todays world you can be involved in an act of violence any place, and anytime.
Guest Bio
James A. DeMeo, M.S. has over 27 years in the security industry and is considered a subject matter expert in Event Security by several leading international and domestic magazines; Security Magazine, Security Management Magazine, and Pan Stadia. Mr. DeMeo earned his M.S. degree in Sport Management from Adelphi University in 2012. He was part of the AEG Leadership Team which opened the Barclays Center in 2012 (Brooklyn, New York). Mr. DeMeo participated as an integral compon-ent of a research team including esteemed professors for a poster project presented at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference (NASSM, June 4th, 2016, Orlando, FL) entitled, Professional Sport Security and Marketing Interface: A Delphi Study, Assessing the Influence of Sport Security Operations on the Guest Experience: Using the Delphi Method to Understand Practitioner Perspectives, later published in The Journal of Sport Safety (The University of Southern Mississippi). He has delivered presentations at several national conferences and has spoken at numerous colleges and universities throughout the U.S. on sport security operations. Mr. DeMeo is the Founder, President, and CEO of USESC (Unified Sports and Entertainment Security Consulting, LLC). His company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. On September 1, 2017, Mr. DeMeo was recognized and honored by Security Magazine as one of The Most Influential People in Security, 2017. Past award recipients have included top corporate CSO s, CISO s as well as individuals such as Senator Joseph Lieberman, Representative Michael Rogers, Judge William Webster, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and INTERPOL Security General Ronald Noble.
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Website: http://jamesademeo.com/
Email: jdemeo65@gmail.com
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Veterans Transition to Emergency Management Apr 18, 2019

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This week we talk to Dr. Rynele Mardis about how veterans can transition out of the military and into roles in the field of emergency management. In a piece in the Journal of Emergency Management, it stated that veterans make great emergency managers because of their commitment to teamwork, leadership, and understanding of command structure.
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Dr. Rynele Mardis is a practitioner–scholar with "grit," with years of leadership experience and an outstanding record of accomplishments, his passion is found in leading people and organizations to excellence!
Rynele has 20+ yr career where he has been nominated and selected above his peers for promotion and competitively selected on numerous occasions for highly selective assignments to include conducting academic research on global security matters, and later selected as an Army-level Interagency Fellow in the IC both highly selective assignments.
Rynele’s career spanned the full spectrum of military global crisis and emergency response planning and operational execution; exercise design and development; and the management of critical resources with aim to reduce negative environmental impacts.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rynele-mardis/
Email: rynelemardis@icloud.com
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The Field Innovation Team, Implementing AI In The Disaster Zone Apr 11, 2019

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This week we are talking to Desiree Matel-Anderson. Desi has created a team that implements intelligence products in the disaster zone. The Field Innovation Team (FIT) an organization that focuses on bringing smart technology and design into resilience initiatives and disaster response
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Desiree (Desi) Matel-Anderson the first and former Chief Innovation Advisor at FEMA, she led the first innovation team down to Hurricane Sandy to provide real-time problem solving in disaster response and recovery. During her tenure she ran think tanks nation-wide to cultivate innovation in communities, the event trended globally on social media during the broadcasts. She has deployed teams into several disasters including, the Boston Marathon Bombings assisting at the scene with social media analysis and Moore, Oklahoma tornadoes for continued mobile registration and coding solutions. She has also deployed teams into the Oso, Washington Mudslides to fly drones and 3D print topography maps for Incident Command and the Nepal earthquakes to collaborate with Nepali women leaders in relief efforts, including the rebuilding of schools and empowerment trainings. In 2015, she led a team to Lebanon to support the Syrian Refugee Crisis launching an artificial intelligent robot for psychosocial services and built a survivor-to-survivor guide for the McMurray Wildfires in Canada. In 2016, her team provided public health gaming to the Miami-Dade Public School System to educate on the outbreak of the Zika virus. Last year, she deployed a team to Rockport, Texas during Hurricane Harvey to design a system for efficient donations management serving over a thousand survivors daily along with kick starting a mobile medical unit and a smart sheltering system. Recently, the team responded to the wildfires in Paradise, California problem-solving challenges with responders, citizens and survivors for safe, responsible and resourced re-entry into the town. Desi and the team continue to work with communities’ worldwide.
Desi began her emergency management experience by volunteering in Northern Illinois University’s Office of Emergency Planning followed by working with the Southeast Wisconsin Urban Area Security Initiative, and the City of Milwaukee Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office. In addition to her regional emergency management duties, she worked as an Emergency Management Accreditation Program Assessor, which included assessing the City of Boston’s emergency management services prior to the tragic Boston Marathon bombings. Desi lectures on innovation at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley and various universities. She serves as a consultant on innovation for agencies and governments, nationally and internationally, including her advisor role to the European emergency management consortium in UNESCO’s I-REACT team.
Desi attended the National Preparedness Leadership Institute at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and School of Public Health in 2011, advised on Harvard’s Executive Education on National Preparedness Leadership Institute Advisory Board in 2013 and obtained a Juris Doctorate from Northern Illinois University in 2009. When Desi is not deployed in a disaster, she enjoys the fresh mountain air in Utah with her dogs and family.
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Website: http://www.fieldinnovationteam.org
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When does Response End and Recovery Begin Apr 04, 2019

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This week we are talking to Dr. David McEntire one of the thought leaders in the field of emergency management education. David not only is actively teaching emergency management, he was part of the team that laid the groundwork for what emergency management curriculum is today.
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David A. McEntire
Dr. McEntire is the Dean of the College of Health and Public Service at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He is responsible for the oversight of numerous undergraduate and graduate courses/programs in the areas of dental hygiene, nursing, public and community health and respiratory therapy. He also works with other important programs including aviation (professional pilot and aviation management), criminal justice, forensic science/investigation, emergency services, homeland security, national security and public service.
Prior to his arrival at UVU, Dr. McEntire was a professor in the Emergency Administration and Planning Program (EADP) at the University of North Texas. During his tenure at UNT, he served as the Coordinator for the undergraduate and PhD programs, as the Associate Dean in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service, and as the Director of Summer Session for the university.
Dr. McEntire’s academic interests include emergency management theory, international disasters, community preparedness, response coordination, and vulnerability reduction. He has received several grants—funded by the Natural Hazards Center, the National Science Foundation, and other sources—that allowed him to conduct research in Peru, the Dominican Republic, Texas, New York, California, and Haiti.
Dr. McEntire is the author or editor of several books including Disaster Response and Recovery (Wiley), Introduction to Homeland Security (Wiley), Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management (Charles C. Thomas), and Comparative Emergency Management (FEMA). He has published more than 100 articles and his research has appeared in Public Administration Review, the Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Disasters, the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Journal of Emergency Management, Journal of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Sustainable Communities Review, International Journal of Emergency Management, Towson Journal of International Affairs, Journal of the American Society of Professional Emergency Planners, and the Journal of International and Public Affairs. His articles in Disaster Prevention and Management received Highly Commended and Outstanding Paper awards.
Dr. McEntire completed an instructor guide on disaster response operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He has also published chapters in the Handbook of Disaster Research (Springer), the Handbook of Disaster Management (CRC Press), Emergency Management: Principles and Practices for Local Government (ICMA), Critical Issues in Homeland Security (Westview Press), Handbook of Emergency Response (CRC Press), Preparedness and Response for Catastrophic Events (CRC Press), and Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management (FEMA).
Dr. McEntire received grants to conduct terrorism-response training for FEMA in Arkansas and Oklahoma. He was a contributing author for a study of Texas Homeland Security Preparedness for the Century Foundation as well as three IQ reports for the International City/County Management Association. McEntire has presented papers internationally (in Hungary, Mexico, and Norway), at the National Science Foundation, at the National Academy of Sciences, at the Disaster Research Center, at the Natural Hazards Center, and at the Higher Education Conference at FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
McEntire is a former member of Congressman Burgess’ Homeland Security Advisory Board, FEMA Region VI Advisory Board, ICMA’s Advisory Board, and the Fire Protection Publications Advisory Board. He has reviewed books for several publishers and is on the editorial staff for the Journal of Emergency Management.
Dr. McEntire attended the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. While pursuing his degree, he worked for the International and Emergency Services Departments at the American Red Cross.
In 2010, Dr. McEntire was recognized as the Dr. B. Wayne Blanchard Award Recipient for Academic Excellence in Emergency Management Higher Education. He was given the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award (provided by School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida) at the 2018 FEMA Higher Education Conference.
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Website: https://www.uvu.edu/profpages/profiles/show/user_id/19894
Email: david.mcentire@uvu.edu
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The Moment of Truth by Kelly McKinney Mar 28, 2019

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This week we talk to Kelly McKinney about his book The Moment of Truth. Kelly takes us into the life of a typical emergency manager on their worst day of their career, when the big one happens. Kelly is a great story teller and is able to weave real events into how an emergency manager handled the disaster. This book is not just full of a few good stories, you will learn the principles of emergency management as well.
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Kelly McKinney has had a leadership role in every major disaster in New York City for more than fifteen years, from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to the present day.
As Deputy Commissioner at the New York City Office of Emergency Management, he assembled a Task Force of hundreds, led by the FDNY and the National Guard, to knock on thousands of doors across the coastal areas devastated by the storm.
He rebuilt the city's disaster planning program, including the Coastal Storm Plan, about which the New York Post said "Planning makes perfect”.
As Chief Disaster Officer for the American Red Cross he rushed to the aid of children and families affected by disaster, most notably the March 2014 Con Edison gas explosion on 125th Street in Harlem.
He is the founding principal of Emergency Management Americas, a 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to advance the profession and practice of emergency management.
He is a professional engineer with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Currently, he is the Senior Director of Emergency Management and Enterprise Resilience at NYU Langone Health, a world-class academic medical center based in New York City
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/kellymnyc
Website: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Moment-of-Truth/Kelly-McKinney/9781682615911
Email: kellymnyc@gmail.com
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