Mastering Risk

Send us Fan Mail In this modern, technologically enabled age, we often see explicit examples of bloated public sector bureaucracy’s inability to provide a service, deliver on a promise or otherwise operate at expectations. We’ve become accustomed to packaged excuses, a series of well honed announcements about limitations, regulatory requirements, procedural hurdles, governance considerations and a...

Send us Fan Mail There are a range of preparedness specific goals and missions. From those who ascribe to cataclysmic societal outcomes requiring a considerable investment of resources, or those who simply seek a slightly more favourable insurance coverage, we are executing in the preparedness space. Your purchase of coverage against hazards in the form of disability, life, automobile, tenant, fir...

Send us Fan Mail The war in Ukraine fosters many an opinion, individuals who rally for the world consensus against invasion of sovereign states, those who seek to disrupt global order and those who seek to economically gain from continued conflict. The Ukrainian question is one where everyone wants to be right, to be on the winning side, the righteous, the benevolent. The challenge with Ukraine is...

Send us Fan Mail The argument is this: I believe that within a decade or so, the losses from disasters will be so expense that irrespective of the damage, there will no longer be any government assistance for those who are uninsured. Residents will simply have to go bankrupt and walk away. Were need a solution to stop that outcome. We cannot order insurance companies to make policies cheaper, they...

Send us Fan Mail Research from across the discipline over the past twenty years has argued that the most influential and correlated variable to better post event outcomes is the sense of community and belonging. Whether found in hundred year old disasters in Japan, recent hurricanes in the USA, floods in Europe, earthquakes in Asia - all point to one singular variable that is an indicator of a hou...

Send us Fan Mail We live in a technologically enabled society, where residents look to online sources for information, guidance and education. The emergency management space has been lacking investment into this field, with few notable participants challenging the paradigm of traditional communication methods. Hazadapt represents a breakthrough, an intelligent design that presents a series of Haza...

Send us Fan Mail We've seen many recent calamities that called for a shelter in place plan, with the plethora of YouTube channels and information on sheltering, we offer evidence-based strategies to enable a successful event.  Researchers examine populations that experience disasters and seek the individual pockets of households that had better post event outcomes, suffered less and navigated...

Send us Fan Mail The global economic picture continues to be volatile, unpredictable and profoundly influenced by political, cultural and natural events. In the modern technologically enable society, we have three choices for a career. We can choose a profession, those with standards, formal education and fully regulated - military, medical, legal, engineering, construction trades, et. We can choo...

Send us Fan Mail The US is a superpower, its influence over global economic, political and cultural conflicts is profound. Your preparedness plan requires you to understand the environment in which you operate, to insulate you, your family and your economic interests against political carnage. Whether you are on the left tor right, and let's be clear - no one cares, the direction the US gover...

Send us Fan Mail Many are lamenting the old world, where a family could earn a living wage with one parent at home with the kids, buy a house, have vacations and retire after 40 years with a company. That dream is dead and likely your future if you are pursuing that. The American dream has transformed over the decades from the Boomer life to the world of the Millennial, Gens Z and A. Their America...

Send us Fan Mail A profound thank you, for all the subscribers, listeners and supporters who held fast throughout this journey, I am humbled and proud. Our future is bright, with a plethora of episodes to come. Thank you my friends, I am humbled and empowered by your vote of confidence.  My argument is that our modern technologically enabled society is robust and fit for purpose, until one of the...

Send us Fan Mail Being wrong, disproved or otherwise having our ideas challenged is uncomfortable. We prefer to exist in a world where we are surrounded by those who hold similar views, creating an echo chamber, missing some valued positions in society.  This is based in psychology, we believe in ourselves, we hold a place in an imagined hierarchy, we want to be seen as a positive force in the wor...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness goals frame why you're adopting preparedness, what you're working towards and how you view the world of preparedness. We discuss a series of important questions that frame your understanding of the overall concept, how you view the purpose of preparedness and who you involve. These are important reflections, each answer is unique to you and not incorrect. We...

Send us Fan Mail There are many publications claiming to understand why people choose not to become prepared, in order to provide guidance on the necessary amendments to influence campaigns, to improve the adoption of preparedness behavoirs by the general population. These are notable and important efforts, many of which are grounded in advancing certain models. This presents a difficulty for rese...

Send us Fan Mail What we have all seen in the southeastern USA over the past week has been heart wrenching, whether here in Canada where I could do little more that financially support the NGO conducting operations, to the individuals charging into the chaos to provide relief and rescue those in peril. Evidence is clear that humans do not panic, they rally to the cause, step up to the occasion and...

Send us Fan Mail Season 11 was a breakthrough season for the podcast, rapidly expanding our audience, which sets season 12 up for great success.  There are a number of tag lines, monikers, colloquialisms and catch phrases that permeate every discipline. They roll off the tongue without effort, others in the field smile and it becomes a language of its own. Newcomers adopt the practice, often witho...

Send us Fan Mail On the eve of Canada's largest gathering of the emergency preparedness and climate adaptation voices, we are in a unique position to create some epic advances in society's readiness. From considerations on a national disaster response force, to leveraging the power of the private sector and bringing together the skills already embedded in society, we have a chance to do...

Send us Fan Mail While the world is not going to collapse, the 2020s will continue to be quite spicy, with exogenous shocks happing across political, cultural, economic and familial spheres.  The stoics are famous for encouraging you to consider what is within your influence, the ideas and actions that you can do to improve your life, while accepting that others are beyond your control. You cannot...

Send us Fan Mail We live in a modern, technologically enabled society. The leaps in life-improving scientific achievements in the last few decades alone is substantial. From the advent of general AI access for the public, to autonomous systems, we are indeed in the 4th industrial revolution. Robotics, human-machine interfaces and a host of emerging technologies are poised to revolutionize how we c...

Send us Fan Mail Resilience is the 21st century emergency management (EM) buzzword, every initiative is grounded in the theory, flavoured for the desired outcomes, but linked to the overall concept of a capability and capacity to navigate through and emerge from an exogenous shock leveraging only internal resources. A generalist definition, but one that retains all the elements of a series of theo...

Send us Fan Mail Many of us have reflected after a significant unforeseen event, when we've done what we could in the moment, with the resources at hand, and wondered what we might have done to be better prepared for such an event. Whether it be an economic, political, natural, cultural or familial disaster, emergency or manifestly uncomfortable moment, we're often left with reflective t...

Send us Fan Mail To quote Brock Long, a former head of FEMA, "a culture of preparedness in society" is one of the necessary legs of a chair that supports our modern and technologically enabled society. We've written and argued at length that our society is enabled and supported by the 10 sectors of critical infrastructure (CI), Director Long's commentary speaks to the human sup...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we've lost the art of intellectual debate, in the pursuit of convincing others they are wrong. In the words of Neil DeGrasse-Tyson, we used to accept that everyone could have a different opinion or view, we were never concerned with pointing out their shortcomings or proving ourselves right and them wrong, we simply existed knowing that others had opposing views and th...

Send us Fan Mail Your local emergency management office is under an unmanageable regulatory burden. In Canada, this is becoming more prevalent. Within EM, governments in Western and Central Canada have appointed political staffers to key positions within EM to drive an agenda for change.  The first iteration is when the key municipal leadership is of a different political stripe than the premier....

Send us Fan Mail The world is a complex place, any number of interwoven dependent events occur daily, many with little impact on the human experience, some with devastating effects. Hazards exist and are realized largely, but not completely, due to events beyond the control of humanity. We do not cause hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, storm surges and floods. We do contribute to the n...