Jan 21, 2021 | Crisis Management
1. I was a Crisis Coordinator at the age of 18… Veterans gain invaluable skills during their service that can be translated and utilized in the crisis coordinator role. In this short video, Rob Burton discusses his own experience as a young soldier and what he skills...
Oct 8, 2019 | Crisis Management
After a crisis and our management of it has run its course, it pays to review all the details of what occurred and evaluate how we responded. We need to determine what could have been done to help us prevent such a crisis from happening in the first place, and...
Oct 1, 2019 | Crisis Management
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey After leaving the military in 2001, it took me several years to adapt to the corporate world. The changes varied from...
Aug 27, 2019 | Exercises, Tabletop Exercises
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” —John F. Kennedy JFK, the president who inspired a nation to reach the moon, knew a thing or two about leadership. His quote above succinctly drives the point: it’s continuous learning that makes...
Jun 3, 2019 | Preparedness
When a Special Operations (Spec Ops) Team deploys, they are usually well prepared and have analyzed as many contingencies (the what if’s) as they possibly can. The success of these operations is down to many factors such as accurate and timely...