Steve will tie in this month's lunch and learn sessions with the broader need for enhanced community resilience. He will look at some trends and pull it all together to help you realize that our approach to wildfire and disasters in the past doesn't quite cut it any more, and how a broader "all-of-community" approach is now needed. Remember the classic Einstein quote "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results each time". Turns out that applies to emergency management as well.

Bio: Steve has been in the emergency management world for about 37 years. His career spans 23 years in provincial wildfire operations where he started out on fire crews and worked his way up to senior leadership levels. His career included time spent on helicopter rappel and initial attack crews, starting and managing 20 person unit crews, fire zone technical and management positions, time spent on incident management teams, international program participation, and leadership in the provincial wildfire aviation program. After that, he spent 7 years as a regional manager for the provincial organization that is now the Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness. In May 2018 he left government to start his own consulting company with specializations in operational and strategic planning, large event after action reviews, disaster recovery planning, and technology development. His client base includes First Nation communities and organizations, local governments, post-secondary institutions, and private sector companies. All of what Steve and his team do centres around enhancing greater community resilience.