Disaster Recovery Leadership Workshop: Navigating Recovery Forces
In the aftermath of disasters, understanding the recovery forces at play is essential for effective post-disaster recovery. Join our immersive workshop where you'll gain insights, strategies, and tools to set you up to navigate systemic recovery forces and make a meaningful impact in disaster recovery efforts.
This workshop hosted at PwC Wellington is an opportunity to connect meaningfully and sound out operational recovery issues with other professionals and recovery experts.
Facilitated by Hummingly's Elizabeth McNaughton with guest presenters Dr. Kate Brady, National Recovery Advisor for the Australian Red Cross and Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, recovery trailblazer Sally McKay and Richard MacGeorge who brings an incredible skillset of disasters, infrastructure, financing and futures studies.
Workshop Details
Join this Disaster Recovery Leadership and expand your recovery leadership toolbox, forge meaningful connections and get practical advice on current recovery issues. Facilitated by disaster recovery expert Elizabeth McNaughton, alongside world-class guest experts, this is a masterclass designed to empower you with the skills and insights needed to thrive as a leader in complex recovery environments.
Workshop Objectives
- Build Your Resilient Network: connect others working on disaster recovery to create a network that drives successful recovery outcomes.
- Deep Dive into the 'Recovery Forces': explore the key drivers influencing post-disaster recovery systems and how they impact communities and the way you lead.
- Disaster Diplomacy: explore the dichotomy of control in recovery the power of 'disaster diplomacy' to enhance your leadership.
- Solve operational recovery issues: work on the 'tough nuts to crack' with other professionals and recovery experts in community recovery, infrastructure and financing.
- Tools to support you leadership and wellbeing: explore a range of practical tools and tactics that support you to manage the line between growth and burnout in yourself, your teams and in recovering communities.
- Understanding Your Role: determine where you fit in the recovery spectrum and uncover your role's potential for maximum effectiveness.
- Research-Based Insights: connect with the latest research in disaster recovery and ensure that your efforts are grounded in evidence-based practices.
Participants
This is ideal for government leaders (local and central), non-profit program leads, private sector leaders and those who are stepping into disaster recovery leadership roles for the first time and community-based leaders.
Date & location
Date: Thursday 23rd of November
Time: 9am-4pm
Location: Hosted at PwC, 10 Waterloo Quay, Wellington
Limited to 30 participants.
Investment
$875 (plus GST) per participant this includes:
- Hummingly resources valued at RRP$144 (a set of Doing Well and Cards for Calamity)
- A delicious lunch with Fussy personalised catering
Elizabeth McNaughton’s career, leading multi-million-dollar recovery programs for New Zealand Red Cross and her work on the Canterbury earthquakes, brings valuable insights to the webinar. She has also worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Asia-Pacific region. Elizabeth’s expertise is recognized through various accolades, including being a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient,a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a co-author of “Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos.”
📎 Don't miss Leading in Disaster Recovery a Companion Through the Chaos shared in the comments.
Dr. Kate Brady is a disaster recovery nerd with a ‘thing’ for knowledge translation. She believes that there is great evidence from research and lived experience that could be better shared to improve outcomes for people affected by disasters and others who are experiencing disruption and upheaval.
Kate has a PhD in Public Health with a focus on disaster recovery. She is the National Recovery Adviser for Australian Red Cross Emergency Services and is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Centre for Child and Community Wellbeing.
📎 Listen to Dr Brady’s podcast ‘After the Disaster’ produced in collaboration with ABC Australia, the University of Melbourne and Australian Red Cross
With over 25 years of leadership in disaster recovery across Oceania, Asia, and the Pacific, Sally McKay stands as a trailblazer in the field. Her journey is marked by a relentless commitment to fostering resilient communities and driving impactful change.
Sally's accolades, include the Australian Red Cross Meritorious Service Award for her pivotal role during the Victorian Bushfires in January 2009. Her service during the Hunter and Central Coast floods in 2007 was recognized with a commendable medal from the Government of NSW. Sally was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for Disaster Recovery Work in 2004-2005.
A visionary leader, Sally has successfully managed disaster operations, spearheaded bushfire recovery efforts, and played a pivotal role in allocating economic recovery grants. Her expertise spans emergency management, infrastructure rehabilitation, housing solutions, economic revitalization, grants management, and community development.
Meet Richard MacGeorge a visionary in global infrastructure development.
With a career spanning continents and impacting lives across 40 countries, Richard MacGeorge stands as a leader in the world of infrastructure. Formerly a World Bank financier, Richard's expertise has propelled him to the forefront of development projects that shape the world we live in.
As the General Manager of Infrastructure at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, amidst the challenging recovery, he reimagined Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory, integrating it into infrastructure development. Richard's journey continued as he became the Lead Infrastructure Finance Specialist within the Financial Solutions unit of the World Bank Group.
He returned to New Zealand in 2020 to contribute to New Zealand's infrastructure strategy and pursue a PhD in Futures Studies.
Elizabeth McNaughton’s career, leading multi-million-dollar recovery programs for New Zealand Red Cross and her work on the Canterbury earthquakes, brings valuable insights to the webinar. She has also worked for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the Asia-Pacific region. Elizabeth’s expertise is recognized through various accolades, including being a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient,a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow and a co-author of “Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos.”
📎 Don't miss Leading in Disaster Recovery a Companion Through the Chaos shared in the comments.
Dr. Kate Brady is a disaster recovery nerd with a ‘thing’ for knowledge translation. She believes that there is great evidence from research and lived experience that could be better shared to improve outcomes for people affected by disasters and others who are experiencing disruption and upheaval.
Kate has a PhD in Public Health with a focus on disaster recovery. She is the National Recovery Adviser for Australian Red Cross Emergency Services and is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Centre for Child and Community Wellbeing.
📎 Listen to Dr Brady’s podcast ‘After the Disaster’ produced in collaboration with ABC Australia, the University of Melbourne and Australian Red Cross
With over 25 years of leadership in disaster recovery across Oceania, Asia, and the Pacific, Sally McKay stands as a trailblazer in the field. Her journey is marked by a relentless commitment to fostering resilient communities and driving impactful change.
Sally's accolades, include the Australian Red Cross Meritorious Service Award for her pivotal role during the Victorian Bushfires in January 2009. Her service during the Hunter and Central Coast floods in 2007 was recognized with a commendable medal from the Government of NSW. Sally was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for Disaster Recovery Work in 2004-2005.
A visionary leader, Sally has successfully managed disaster operations, spearheaded bushfire recovery efforts, and played a pivotal role in allocating economic recovery grants. Her expertise spans emergency management, infrastructure rehabilitation, housing solutions, economic revitalization, grants management, and community development.
Meet Richard MacGeorge a visionary in global infrastructure development.
With a career spanning continents and impacting lives across 40 countries, Richard MacGeorge stands as a leader in the world of infrastructure. Formerly a World Bank financier, Richard's expertise has propelled him to the forefront of development projects that shape the world we live in.
As the General Manager of Infrastructure at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, amidst the challenging recovery, he reimagined Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory, integrating it into infrastructure development. Richard's journey continued as he became the Lead Infrastructure Finance Specialist within the Financial Solutions unit of the World Bank Group.
He returned to New Zealand in 2020 to contribute to New Zealand's infrastructure strategy and pursue a PhD in Futures Studies.
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