International

CEO

Leader's Intent, LLC

All-Hazards Incident Management Teams Association; International Association of Emergency Managers; Marine Corps Scout Sniper Association

Incorporating Animal Rescue into your Disaster Response - Accounting for animals in disaster is required for emergency managers, but few know about the national resources available in the nonprofit sector. As the former National Director of Animal Rescue with American Humane, Randal will explain those resources and describe how animal issues can be integrated into your preparedness and response efforts.

Utilizing All-Hazards Incident Management Teams at the Local Level - All-Hazards Incident Management Teams (AHIMTs) may be the best kept secret in large scale disaster or emergency response. These multi-jurisdictional, multi-discipline teams can help your jurisdiction respond to the worst of disasters. This session will discuss the benefits an AHIMT can provide, how to develop a team, and incorporating such a team into your emergency operations plan(s).

Free-Play Exercises: Developing Critical Thinkers - All too often we see exercises that are designed to end in a positive outcome. Such exercises never truly test the proper implementation of a plan and a plan's biggest vulnerability, the human element. This session discusses how your jurisdiction and its responders can get more out exercises by creating exercises that are designed to challenge a responders knowledge of plans and doctrine and allows those responders free choice in implementing plans. This kind of exercise develops critical thinking in your responders and allows for a better and more realistic evaluation of plan implementation.

All-Hazards Incident Management Teams: The New (But Unused) Tool in the Toolbox

All-Hazards Incident Management Teams (AHIMTs) are relatively new to the emergency management field. AHIMTs started popping up around the country about 20 years ago. Indiana began development of teams about a decade ago. Despite their development in many jurisdictions across the U.S., many jurisdictions fail to develop, utilize, or embrace the concept of AHIMTs despite their overwhelming success on numerous incidents. Now as we enter into a post-COVID-19 environment, emergency managers may have the opportunity to reinvigorate the AHIMT movement.

In this presentation, Dr. Randal A. Collins, CEM, the President of the All-Hazards Incident Management Team Association and leader of the nation’s smallest jurisdiction with a Type 3 AHIMT will discuss what an AHIMT is, why they are so effective, and how his team supported the City of El Segundo during the COVID-19 pandemic. Randy will also discuss emerging programs within the AHIMT and intersecting emergency management community.

The Emergency Manager: A Change Agent

An Emergency Manager is more than just someone who prepares for disasters and runs an emergency operations center (EOC). An emergency manager is an innovator who seeks to mitigate disasters and develop jurisdictional capabilities that improve the operational readiness of a jurisdiction. An emergency manager's job is never done. There will always be work to do. There are processes to improve and technology to implement. This all requires change management and leadership skills. Discover how to become a change agent that is prepared to lead your jurisdiction to a new preparedness level.

Leadership Powers

Emergency managers will need to call upon unique leadership attributes in order to be effective as an emergency manager. In this presentation, Dr. Collins will utilize the work of social psychologists French and Ravens seminal work in leadership attributes for leaders and apply it with an emergency management perspective. Dr. Collins will add in his own and unique research into the field and add to the attributes that can best be used by emergency managers to enable them to achieve their mission of protecting lives, livelihood, and quality of life for their communities.

Adaptation: A Proposal to Replace Recovery

When disaster occurs an emergency manager is called upon to respond to and stabilize the incident and then transition to recovery with the goal of restoring or returning the affected community to the former state or condition. Should that be the goal? Inevitably, the disaster has created a permanent change. It has created a change in the people, the environment, and in the social fabric of the community it has affected. When change has occurred, it is critical that the emergency manager serve as a community change agent and lead its community through change to an end state that enables the community to thrive and flourish. This kind of change is not done through a recovery process, it occurs utilizing an adaptation process.

In this presentation, Dr. Randal A. Collins, CEM will facilitate a journey through the concept of adaptation and his proposal to replace recovery as one of the four phases of emergency management.

Beginning his career in emergency management in 2000, Randal Collins has held positions at the state, county, and municipal levels of government. He has also been the National Director of Animal Rescue for American Humane in the nonprofit sector and an Emergency Management Specialist for Southern California Edison in the private sector. Randal has been the President of the All-Hazards Incident Management Teams Association since 2012. He received a Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California in 2020 where he wrote "Leadership Selection in Public Safety: An Evaluation Study." In 2016 he received a Master of Leadership also from USC. While attending school, he also played for the Men's Lacrosse Team where he was the oldest player ever to play in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association.

Author of Leadership Powers in the Crisis Response Journal, December 2020

Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California, May 2020.

Author of Leadership Selection in Public Safety: An Evaluation Study, November 2019.

Published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Yes, 2018

Master of Leadership from the University of Southern California, Executive Master of Leadership Program, 2016.

Published in Chicken Soup for the Should: The Spirit of America, 2016

National Director of American Humane Animal Rescue, 2015 - 2017.

Published "What is an AHIMT and how do you get one?" Fire/Rescue Magazine, May 2013

President of the All-Hazards Incident Management Teams Association, 2012 - Present.

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