This essentially sums up two of the sessions I attended on Monday morning at WCDM. The keynote presentation of the conference was entitled “World on the Edge”, presented by Lester Brown. Brown is President of the Earth Policy Institute. It was refreshing to receive a free copy of his book as we arrived, rather than […]
Crisis Leadership
My second session for Sunday was Peter Power’s Crisis Leadership Workshop. The session provided a very wide ranging summary of ideas and theories around the subject of Leadership. A subject that seems to have many varied definitions and meanings – as became obvious by some group activities later in the session. Power touched on a […]
Social Media as a preparedness tool
The 21st World Conference on Disaster Management got underway in Toronto today with a program of half and full day workshops. If you have not been to WCDM before, then you are missing one of the best education events in the industry. As they have been running for 21 years, that is not just my opinion. I […]
… Ash Cloud Risk, Australian style
Ash Cloud Risk – the impact of volcanic uncertainty on your air travel objectives. I have an objective to fly to Toronto on Saturday for the World Conference on Disaster Management. There is a volcano in Chile that is spewing uncertainty into my travel plans. Remarkably, this ash cloud is taking the long way […]
… variety in risk management
They say variety is the spice of life, and some days uncertainty plays its part and you get some totally unexpected variety. It seems Trevor Levine (Riskczar) had one of those days this week – at least it looks that way from looking at his tweets and blog posts for a single day. It certainly brought some […]
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