A monthly podcast featuring real-world lessons, best practices, and action-oriented insights for the “You’re It” moments when you are called to lead. Each concise episode features insights from frontline leaders and the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. About the Host Eric J. McNulty is the Associate Director ...
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Episode 25: COVID19 Leadership in Disaster Medicine with Dr. Greg Ciottone
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Coronavirus mini-cast version of Leader ReadyCast: Just-in-time COVID-19 leadership lessons with Greg Ciottone, Medical Preparedness Director, NPLI and Division of Disaster Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he works clinically in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He’s known around the world as an expert in disaster and cri…
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Episode 24: Continuity Planning and Exercise Design with Regina Phelps
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Episode 23: Coronavirus mini-cast version of Leader ReadyCast: Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Obama and faculty chair of Homeland Security program at ...
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Juliette shares with us just-in-time COVID-19 leadership lessons.Av Regina Jungbluth
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Episode 22: Former journalist and government press secretary Suzanne Bernier
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Suzanne shares with us the stories she has been collecting for several years of disaster heroes around the country.Av Regina Jungbluth
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Episode 21: Crisis communications with Andy Gilman, president and CEO of CommCore.
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The world is in the midst of a highly volatile situation with a Corona outbreak. Each day brings a new twist in the story as a leader. What does it take to communicate effectively right now? Gilman speaks with us about the four Fs principles to communicate in a crisis like this.Av Regina Jungbluth
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While sports arenas and other such venues present myriad tactical issues, they also present leadership challenges. Greg McCurdy with the NFL and Colm Lydon with Boston Red Sox join us for this episode ...
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Sports venues are a truly complex environment in which to lead. You have a league and owners with a business to run. They want things to be safe but not through an obtrusive security presence that might seem unwelcoming to fans. Fans want to see a game and expect to roam freely about the stadium. Players are high-profile individuals; there are alwa…
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Dr. Carl Spetzler, CEO of Strategic Decision Group at Stanford University discusses the art and science of making the best possible decision
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Decisions, decisions, decisions. When leading, particularly in the midst of crisis, your decisions are often how you are judged. You rarely have all of the information or time you’d like. Yet, when “you’re it,” you must decide. Given the importance of the ability to make decisions is to effectiveness when leading, it is odd that so few people are f…
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Communications and connecting in a virtual world with Dr. Nick Morgan, CEO and Founder of Public Words
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Communicating well is a core competency for anyone leading others. You may be called upon to set direction, provide feedback, clarify a situation, or any of a hundred other challenges. Your ability to understand the communications need and fulfill it effectively may spell the difference between your success and failure.…
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Leading for Resilience Through Catastrophic Global Events from a Policy Perspective with Alice Hill
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Much of the attention around disaster leadership goes to response. However, a lot of what happens in response is shaped by the policy choices in mitigation, preparedness, and recovery. Alice Hill, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution where she focuses on potentially catastrophic global events such as climate change, speaks with us about lead…
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Tourniquet Training for the Public is Necessary, with Dr. Eric Goralnick, Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness at BWH
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The goal is laudable: save lives. And this is National Preparedness Month. In this episode we discuss the Stop the Bleed and other efforts to put tourniquets in the hands of the general public. Recent research, however, shows that it isn’t as easy as putting kits on the wall in public spaces. Training matters.…
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Lisa Hughes, Journalist and Anchor, CBS News Boston on Working with Local Media
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How do you work with the media in a crisis? This is one aspect that continually vexes practitioners. Lisa Hughes is part of WBZ-TV’s team coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and was on the media bridge at the time of the explosions. She was one of the first journalists reporting from the scene and has covered just about every major news event …
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Leading a Major Public Event with Major Richard Ball of the Massachusetts State Police
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The spectacular July 4th Celebration with the Boston Pops is a tradition that began with Arthur Fiedler in 1929, and the greater Boston area has used events such as this as opportunities to train and learn. The high profile event draws crowds that swell to about a half-million people on the Charles River Esplanade with celebrants aligning parks and…
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Today, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter. A media controversy. A data breach. This book takes you to the front lines of some of the toughest decisions facing our nations leaders. Leonard Marcus, founding Co-Director and Eric McNulty, Associate Director of the NPLI and two of the four authors, dis…
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Patty McCord on Creating the Netflix Culture Deck
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Building a powerful culture on your team and in your organization can be tough, particularly in large institutions such as government agencies and legacy corporations. Yet there are steps that anyone can take that can make an enormous difference. Chief talent officer, Patty McCord at Netflix helped create the Netflix Culture Deck that has been view…
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Public Safety Leadership in Campus Settings
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Universities are microcosms of the communities in which they reside and often present health, safety, and security issues as complex as those found in major urban areas. Darryl Darnell, Senior Associate Vice President for Safety & Security and Superintendent of Police at George Washington University and Kelly Nee, Chief of Police at Boston Universi…
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Trucks ramming into crowds. Bombs in the marketplace. Active shooters in schools and workplaces. Passive and active security measures are ever more present. Violent extremism has become part of the fabric of our lives. In this podcast we discuss combating violent extremism with our guest, Farah Pandith. She’s going to share her thinking and counter…
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Welcome to the latest episode Leader ReadyCast. This month, the NPLI marks its' 15th anniversary. In this episode we look back at the program’s greatest hits—and look forward at what is next to come. Our guests today are Dr. Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the NPLI, and Rich Serino, a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the NPLI. Both have bee…
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Welcome to the latest episode Leader ReadyCast. I’m your host, Eric McNulty, and my guest today is Dr. Eric Goralnick. Dr. Goralnick is Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Instructor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School …
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What’s Your Story? A Conversation with Dr. Murray Nossel
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Welcome to the latest edition of Leader ReadyCast. I am your host, Eric McNulty. My guest today is Dr. Murray Nossel and our topic is storytelling. One of the more frequent concerns that I hear from NPLI participants is that the media fails to “tell our story.” Whether in the aftermath of a human or manmade disaster, it seems that government respon…
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Brian Hastings, Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency discusses his NPLI EEP team project on combating opioid addiction. The NPLI Executive Education Program team project has become an enduring initiative as he has transitioned from the military to leading a civilian agency.Av Eric J. McNulty
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Marcus Coleman, Jr., Acting Deputy Director of the DHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, shares his leadership experience, dispels false assumptions, and points to opportunities to increase the impact of these vital organizations through programs such as FEMA’s Voluntary Agency Liaisons.…
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The Evolving Roles of NGOs in Preparedness and Response
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In this episode of Leader ReadyCast we explore the evolving role of non-governmental organizations in disaster response with Jono Anzalone, Vice President for International Services at the American Red Cross. He shares his first-hand leadership experiences in both domestic and international response efforts. Anzalone is an alumnus of the National P…
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Today, leaders confront declining trust and escalating risk in a time of seeming constant turbulence. In this episode of Leader ReadyCast, we discuss how leaders can prepare for and deal with these vexing challenges with Harlan Loeb, Global Chair for Crisis and Reputation Risk at Edelman, the global public relations firm. Loeb, also a professor of …
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From flu to unusual threats such as Ebola to the possibility of a chemical or other unconventional attack, public health leaders sit in a unique perch in the world of emergency preparedness and response. Dr. Suzet McKinney, CEO of the Illinois Medical District, program faculty at the NPLI, and co-author of the new book, Public Health Emergency Prep…
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In this episode of Leader ReadyCast we look back at the unprecedented 2017 hurricane season with Richard Serino, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, former Deputy Administrator of FEMA, and former Chief of EMS in Boston. Serino shares what the responses to Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria tell u…
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