Crisis and Emergency Management

August 2010 (TBC)
Canberra

Brochure

Express interest

Using case studies from Australia and the United States, this workshop will examine key concepts of effective organisation and action in both routine emergency situations and true crises. Building on lessons from experiences with the 2003 Canberra fires and Cyclone Larry as well as Hurricane Katrina and other salient crisis examples, the course proposes a different way of thinking about what we are trying to achieve in organising in advance and in conducting ourselves in the midst of emergency and crisis events.

Who should attend?

The course is aimed at SES and senior managers in the emergency services, police, security and defence areas of government, for whom crisis and emergency management is an important part of their responsibilities. It is particularly appropriate for policy-level officials whose agencies might be called upon to help respond to a major disaster The course is suitable for senior executives who may serve in a range of different agencies over time.

Course Leader - Professor Dutch Leonard

Herman ‘Dutch’ Leonard is the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration and Co-Chair of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School. He teaches leadership, organisational strategy, crisis management and financial management. 

His current research concentrates on crisis management, corporate social responsibility, and performance management. He is a member of the boards of directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a 1,000,000-member Massachusetts HMO, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and of the Hitachi Foundation. He was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Health and Education Authority, a member of the Research and Education Advisory Panel of the General Accounting Office, a member of the Massachusetts Performance Enhancement Commission, and a member of the Alaska Governor's Council on Economic Policy. He served as Chair of the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Tuition Prepayment Plans. He received his PhD in economics in 1979 from Harvard.