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EP 38 Radio Interoperability Solutions Made Easy Dec 07, 2017

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The very first customer Frank helped, was a County Sheriff on the East Coast, that needed to patch radios with surrounding counties, State Police & National Guard. Being in a Mountainous area, they also needed voice & data patches to cover dead spots. Also, they did not have hundreds of thousands to spend on a custom solution.
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EP 37 Transforming Leadership with David Marquet Nov 30, 2017

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In 1981, David graduated top of his class from the U.S. Naval Academy—an institute renowned for developing “leaders to serve the nation.” Thereafter, he joined the submarine force. Along his journey, one thing bothered him: the traditional leader-follower model. Used by the Navy and most companies around the world, the goal of leader-follower is to influence people to comply, not think. David experienced first-hand how this practice makes people feel marginalized. He knew in his gut that there had to be a better way. He’d soon discover that to prove his theory he’d have to break some rules. As engineer officer aboard the USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659), a nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, David tried empowering his team. He provided broad guidance, giving the team intent rather than orders. It was … a disaster. His team made poor decisions that led to errors. He had to stop and revert to the traditional leader-follower method. Taking Command Ultimately, David was selected to captain the USS Olympia (SSN-717), a nuclear powered attack submarine. He studied for over a year to take command, understanding on a deep level every detail of how that submarine operated. Unexpectedly, David was diverted to take command of the USS Santa Fe (SSN-763) when its captain quit. Santa Fe was the worst performing submarine in the fleet and a different type of submarine that he knew little about. Troubled Waters Less than a month later the Santa Fe was running a simple drill to simulate a fault with the reactor. In this scenario, propulsion is shifted from the main engines to a smaller, electric propulsion motor. The captain ordered, “ahead two-thirds.” The officer on deck repeated the order, “ahead two-thirds.” Nothing happened. Captain Marquet noticed the helmsman who was to execute the order looked unsettled. When asked what the problem was, the helmsman pointed out that there was no two-thirds in the electric propulsion mode unlike all his previous submarines. When asked, the officer on deck said he repeated the command knowing it was wrong. David realized that the leader-follower environment meant his crew would do anything he said—even if it was wrong. That could be catastrophic. He decided to try Intent-Based Leadership again. Turning the Ship Around Captain Marquet began treating his crew as leaders, not followers, and giving control, not taking control. It wasn’t long before operations took a dramatic turn. Santa Fe went from “worst to first,” achieving the highest retention and operational standings in the Navy. When Stephen R. Covey spent time aboard the Santa Fe, he referred to it as the most empowering organization he’d ever seen. He wrote about Captain Marquet’s leadership practices in his book, The 8th Habit. After Captain Marquet’s departure from the USS Santa Fe, it continued to win awards and promote more officers and enlisted men to positions of increased responsibility than any other submarine—including ten subsequent submarine captains. A Time for Change Captain Marquet retired from the Navy in 2009 and is now the author of Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders. Fortune magazine called the book the “best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” Captain Marquet’s Intent-Based Leadership model is turning around all types of organizations—from big manufacturers to start-ups and sport teams to government. He helps leaders build environments where people contribute and feel valued —where everyone is a leader. Links http://www.davidmarquet.com/ amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1W4YCMRP4SGJHASF736G (Amazon) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidmarquet Twitter: ldavidmarquet Email: chuck@turntheshiparound.com Advertisers www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com

IAEM 2017 Conference and Emex Nov 23, 2017

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IAEM The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), which has more than 6,000 members worldwide, is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the "Principles of Emergency Management" and representing those professionals whose goals are saving lives and protecting property and the environment during emergencies and disasters. IAEM Membership Brochure The History of IAEM IAEM-USA Strategic Plan IAEM PowerPoint Presentation (General Introduction) IAEM Videos Our Vision: That the International Association of Emergency Managers be recognized globally as the premier organization for emergency management. Ellis Stanley Ellis Stanley’s 40+ years of work experience in emergency management began as Director of Emergency Management for Brunswick County, North Carolina in 1975. While in Brunswick County he was selected as the First Fire Marshal for the jurisdiction as well as served as Fire and Rescue Commissioner. There Mr. Stanley was responsible for helping to develop a strong public safety infrastructure and overseeing the volunteer fire and rescue operations within the county. Mr. Stanley was appointed in 1982 as the Director of the Durham-Durham County Emergency Management Agency where he worked very close with the world’s largest research park in the North Carolina Triangle area and was heavily involved with hazardous materials planning. In 1987 Mr. Stanley was appointed by the Governor of Georgia as the Director of the Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency. As part of the Public Safety Department for the City of Atlanta, Mr. Stanley served as a key advisor to the Public Safety Director. While in Atlanta, Mr. Stanley had extensive experience in major event planning (1988 Democratic National Convention, 1995 Mandela visit, and the 2006 International Olympic Games). Mr. Stanley was appointed in 1997 as Assistant City Administrative Officer for the City of Los Angeles and in 2000 as the General Manager of the Emergency Preparedness Department for the City of Los Angeles until his retirement in 2007. Mr. Stanley joined Dewberry, LLC in November 2007 as Director of Western Emergency Management Services. In March of 2008 Mr. Stanley was selected to be the Director of DNC Planning for the City & County of Denver, CO. Because of the success of the Democratic National Convention, August 29, 2008 was proclaimed “The Ellis Stanley Day in Denver”. Links https://www.iaem.com https://iaemconference.info/2017/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ellis-m-stanley-sr-b981852 Twitter: emstanleysr Email: ellisstanleysr@gmail.com Advertisers www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com

EP. 35 The Paradigm Shift of Active Shooter Response Nov 16, 2017

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High-Speed Tac Med's ("HSTM") mission is to save as many lives and assets as possible through training in realistic environments. HSTM has decades of experience in law enforcement, managing large-scale incidents, coordinating with multiple fire and law enforcement agencies, as well as corporate global crisis management. HSTM can provide customized options for site-specific written plans, training sessions, drills, and debriefs. New guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other federal and state agencies are evolving every day. The increase in active-shooter activity and medical research on preventable death is increasing the need for training and management in these areas. Programs developed by HSTM are designed to facilitate quick response and support the ingress and egress of emergency professionals when a security threat or medical incident exists. The programs are designed to help increase the chances of survival during an incident. Links www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com http://www.highspeedtacmed.com

EP 34 Creating a Resilient EM Team Nov 09, 2017

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Gleeson, a Navy SEAL combat veteran and serial entrepreneur, has leveraged the principles of leadership, discipline, accountability and resiliency learned in training and applied down range for building high-performance teams in the business world. He has raised millions of dollars for his organizations, built winning teams, made costly mistakes, dealt with the inevitable obstacles and sold companies for significant returns. He is an acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and culture to change management and building high-performance teams. Companies of all sizes from across the globe hire him for speaking and consulting with a desire to leverage his expertise in building teams that evangelize change and achieve winning results. After tours in Iraq, Africa and other theaters of war Gleeson transitioned to the world of entrepreneurship applying battletested leadership principles to building teams designed to overcome the odds and achieve results. Using the guiding principles he learned in the SEAL Teams, Gleeson has built award-winning multi-million dollar organizations that have earned the prestige of being repeatedly named in the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing private companies. He has spoken to thousands of business leaders, professional athletes and first responders all over the world and consulted with hundreds of organizations large and small seeking new ways to develop their leaders, improve the culture and get better results. He has inspired thousands to push themselves beyond their comfort zone and achieve seemingly impossible goals. With degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, English and History from Oxford University in England and an MBA from University of San Diego, Gleeson’s extensive experience is both academic and real-world in nature. Gleeson has won awards for business leadership and was named one of the “Top 10 CEOs” in Entrepreneur Magazine’s October 2013 issue for his exemplary approach to building high-performance teams in business. His clients include reputable brands such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, PayPal, Nestle, Toronto Raptors, Morgan Stanley, Raytheon, Boeing, A&E Networks, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Care Fusion, The North Face, Lilly, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UBS and the U.S. Navy. For the last four years, Gleeson has had weekly columns on both Forbes.com and Inc.com, two of the most highly trafficked business content sites in the world. His columns – that garner thousands of views and social shares each week – focus on the topics of business leadership, culture, change management and building teams that achieve great results. Since his inception as an entrepreneur, Gleeson has been featured on many business podcasts and local and national news and TV channels such as CNBC, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, TMZ and the Discovery Channel. He has also starred in several reality shows such as Discovery Channel’s ‘One Man Army’ and Mark Burnett’s NBC primetime hit ‘Stars Earn Stripes.’ For ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ Gleeson and several other special operations professionals – including the late Chris Kyle (former teammate and “American Sniper”) – were selected out of two thousand candidates to be paired with celebrities to compete and raise money for charities like Wounded Warrior Project and Hire Our Heroes. Gleeson currently has two TV shows in the works with Mark Owen (former teammate, SEAL Team 6 member, and author of the best-seller ‘No Easy Day’) and CAA, where the focus will be a special operations approach to improving businesses. Gleeson is on the Executive Board of the Navy SEAL Family Foundation and his family is an ambassador family for March of Dimes. He is married with three wonderful children. Links www.emweekly.com http://www.brentgleesonspeaker.com Linked In: linkedin.com/in/brentgleeson-takingpoint Twitter: brentgleeson brent@takingpointleadership.com Advertisers www.titanhst.com

EP 33 Disaster Communications With Zello Nov 01, 2017

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Zello is about voice communication without calls, instant messaging without typing. That is that Zello does voice communication uses less bandwidth than phone, just like a text. So instant two way communication works when cell phones may not. Group communication with Zello is just as easy — everybody participates at his own pace and the entire group stays tuned, without interrupting their normal activity. Public safety services use this method for ages and there is a good reason for that. It simply works. Zello is based on p2p-architecture, which allows scaling easily, and proprietary protocols optimized for real-time communication over low-bandwidth and high-latency connections such as GPRS or EDGE Links www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com www.zello.com Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2478568/ Twitter: @zello http://blog.basecampconnect.com/english/3-emergency-managers-you-should-follow-on-linkedin-part-2

EP 32 The Great ShakeOut Oct 26, 2017

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At the Southern California Earthquake Center Mark communicates earthquake knowledge to the general public, decision makers, engineers, and others in order to increase earthquake awareness, reduce economic losses, and save lives. To do this Mark 1) coordinates productive interactions among SCEC scientists and with partners in science, engineering, risk management, government, business, and education; 2) manage activities that increase earthquake knowledge and science literacy at all educational levels; 3) lead efforts to improve earthquake hazard and risk assessments; and 4) promote earthquake preparedness, mitigation, and planning for response and recovery. Many of these efforts are in coordination with members of the Earthquake Country Alliance, a statewide California private-public partnership of organizations that provide earthquake information and services, for which he is Executive Director. In this role he is the lead organizer of the Great California ShakeOut, an annual earthquake drill with millions of participants throughout the state that began in 2008. Beginning in 2010 Mark led efforts to replicate the ShakeOut in other states and countries. Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills now are held throughout the United States and its territories, as well as Japan, New Zealand, Canada, and elsewhere. SCEC staff and an "army" of USC students manage the websites and resources for all ShakeOut drills (except Japan). In 2014 more than 26.4 million people worldwide participated (see www.ShakeOut.org) Links www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com www.shakeout.org www.earthquakecountry.org

EP. 31 Quakeland The Story Of The Moving World With Kathryn Miles Oct 19, 2017

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Kathryn Miles is an acclaimed journalist and writer-in-residence for Green Mountain College, as well as a faculty member for Chatham University’s MFA program. With a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University and a PhD in English from the University of Delaware, Kate is also a scholar-in-residence for the Maine Humanities Council and a member of the Terrain.org editorial board. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Popular Mechanics, Outside, and The New York Times. ABOUT QUAKELAND A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It’s a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you’re in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always, has been making some of her own. . . . The consequences for our real estate, our civil engineering, and our communities will be huge because they will include earthquakes most of us do not expect and cannot imagine—at least not without reading Quakeland. Kathryn Miles descends into mines in the Northwest, dissects Mississippi levee engineering studies, uncovers the horrific risks of an earthquake in the Northeast, and interviews the seismologists, structual engineers, and emergency managers around the country who are addressing this ground shaking threat. As Miles relates, the era of human-induced earthquakes began in 1962 in Colorado after millions of gallons of chemical-weapon waste was pumped underground in the Rockies. More than 1,500 quakes over the following seven years resulted. The Department of Energy plans to dump spent nuclear rods in the same way. Evidence of fracking’s seismological impact continues to mount. . . . Humans as well as fault lines built our “quakeland”. What will happen when Memphis, home of FedEx’s 1.5-million-packages-a-day hub, goes offline as a result of an earthquake along the unstable Reelfoot Fault? FEMA has estimated that a modest 7.0 magnitude quake (twenty of these happen per year around the world) along the Wasatch Fault under Salt Lake City would put a $33 billion dent in our economy. When the Fukushima reactor melted down, tens of thousands were displaced. If New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant blows, ten million people will be displaced. How would that evacuation even begin? Kathryn Miles’ tour of our land is as fascinating and frightening as it is irresistibly compelling. Links www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com www.thegreatshakeout.org kathrynmiles.net https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318536/quakeland-by-kathryn-miles/9780525955184/ LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/kathryn-miles-bab79361 Twitter @Kathryn_Miles

EP 30 Hurricane Harvey a Survivors Story with Anna Cave Oct 12, 2017

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Anna Cave, formerly of California experienced her first hurricane and evacuated. With little knowledge of what was ahead for her and her family. Anna keep her spirits up and reported from the disaster zone. This is Anna’s Story of survival and the aftermath of Harvey. Links Anna Cave linkedin.com/in/anna-cave-56018612 www.emweekly.com www.titanhst.com www.thegreatshakeout.org

EP 29 The Maria Effect Oct 05, 2017

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Jeff Schlegelmilch is the Deputy Director for the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. His areas of expertise includes public health preparedness, community resilience and the integration of private and public sector capabilities. Some topics of past work include developing inter-organizational processes for operational epidemiological modeling, evacuation and sheltering planning for people with medical dependencies, and adapting business intelligence systems for disaster response and recovery operations. He has advised local, state and federal leaders on preparedness programs and policies and has briefed congressional staff on key preparedness legislation and funding areas. He frequently serves as a subject matter expert source for the media and is an expert Contributor for The Hill. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from UMASS Amherst in Health Policy and Management, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Quinnipiac University. Links Twitter: @jeffschlegel @DisasterPolitic Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-schlegelmilch-480576b/

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