Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Resilience is an illusion. In saying that I mean no disrespect to resilience officers, whose work is honourable, vital and necessary. However, whether resilience has as its goal to 'bounce back' or to 'bounce forward', it represents a tendency to seek homeostasis, in other words a quest for an eventual stable equilibrium.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 15, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic ought to teach us the importance of both preparedness and social participation. Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar and killed 136,000 of its citizens, in part because they had no role in creating resilience against such an event. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Actually, my career started with a company Boon Edam acquired in 2005 – it was another physical security entrance company that was a manufacturer of security turnstiles. About six months later, the global pandemic hit, and I always tell everybody that if I had known that was coming, I might not have taken the role.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Natural disasters, pandemics, cybersecurity events, and other crises have wrought devastation on communities worldwide, leading many to question whether the hazard environment is changing for the worse. It also begs the question, where should resilience professionals focus? So where do organizations focus?

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Shortly after the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax exposures, centers throughout the United States were set up to prepare for and make our nation more resilient. I was also proud of NCDP during this period for providing thought leadership and highlighting many of the inequities that the pandemic illuminated.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

However, it famously seemed slow to respond after the 2005 Katrina disaster, and has often been criticized for being late in disasters since. With that direction from the board, the CEO must staff the organization properly to handle the challenge of implementing an organization-wide operational resilience program.

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