Recovery leadership
Objectives
- Gain confidence and strategies to lead well in the disaster recovery context
- Benefit from leadership insights from interviews with 100+ disaster recovery leaders around the world
- Build the knowledge to support communities to recover from disaster while continuing to operate well individually and collectively through prolonged stress and uncertainty
- Explore the typical patterns, impacts and strategies for recovery from disaster and mass disruption
- Understand the complexity of working in a rapidly changing environment to respond well to the challenges and opportunities you can expect to encounter.
Topics
· Explore the specific challenges of disaster recovery leadership
· Dive deep into the recovery process as experienced by communities
· Understand the role of secondary stress from the individual to the systemic level
· Design your part of the recovery system to retain compassion
· Sustain leadership and support a team through prolonged stress
Get in touch to discuss the needs of your organization or team
Meet your facilitator
Jolie Wills
B.SC., M.SC(PSYCHOLOGY)
Jolie has a Masters in Cognitive Psychology and is a leading psychosocial expert in disaster and disruption. Jolie has studied how the mind works under prolonged pressure, how we make decisions and how our reactions and behaviors are impacted by stress. Jolie is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquakes and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She led the psychosocial recovery program for New Zealand Red Cross in response to the earthquakes and has supported those working in disasters around the world. Jolie is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos and is an advising member to the global Counter Terrorism Prevention Network.
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