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Our clients make life and death, high-consequence decisions, real-time and under great stress. They will face career and life-defining days. My team exists for those days. We help clients build the culture and develop the leaders needed to conquer the challenges of human performance in team environments. Our vision is a body of work with a legacy of successful chain reactions with far-reaching positive effects for those we serve and beyond. Is my team a good fit for your team? If you’re the kind of leader…• who believes people drive systems, not the other way around• who believes that developing leaders for the future is critical for success• who believes that culture makes or breaks an organization… we’re a good fit.We provide consulting, training, exercising, measurement for:• Building mission-driven culture• Developing leaders• Managing risk• Intent-based strategic, operational and tactical planning• Facilitating and managing lessons-learned Since 1979, I've trained and led teams and organizations in complex, high-risk environments worldwide. During my 22-year military career, I served in a variety of special operations staff and leadership positions across many disciplines: administration, training, communications, plans, intelligence, operations, and command. I've delivered hundreds of MCS programs throughout Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. I helped develop and deliver the Point of the Spear (L-380) course, All Hazard Incident Leadership (L-381) course and the Intent into Action: Advanced Leadership for the Command & General Staff (L-481) program.Extremely rewarding is representing MCS as a member of a unique coalition of private sector, utilities, non-profits as well as federal, tribal, state and local governments in creating the strategic leader L-580 program called Leading in Crisis for the International Association of Fire Chiefs. I have gotten a lot of feedback from graduates how what they learned has helped them navigate their organizations through the COVID-19 Pandemic.I really believe in the movement of emergency services organizations to adopt principles-based leadership and a Mission-Driven Culture. I'm lucky to be involved in several projects designed to evolve the doctrine of emergency management. I work with agencies, incident management teams and first responders on implementing intent-based planning and risk decisions as a means to reduce operational risk and increase mission success.

Listed skills include Emergency Management, Command, Leadership Development, Military, and 40 others.

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