One hundred years after Spanish Flu killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, the risks of a pandemic loom large for the increasingly interconnected global community. In this candid conversation, former deputy homeland security ad

Building Resilient Systems: Peter Neffenger Shares Lessons From Managing The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to Improving Aviation Security

Aug 8th, 2018 51m 53s

Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger takes listeners inside the room as he describes how he managed complex challenges like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and taking over the Transportation Security Administration at a critical juncture in aviation se

Thriving Amid Change: Chief Resilience Officer Kevin Bush on Washington DC’s Approach to Disasters and Disruptions

Jul 25th, 2018 36m 41s

With a majority of people living in urban environments, there is a growing imperative to engineer cities to better withstand an inevitable bevy of potential shocks and stresses. As Washington DC’s first chief resilience officer, Kevin Bush’s ta

Governor, Ambassador, Secretary: Ray Mabus on His Lifetime of Service, and Why Diversity Helps Build Resilience

Jul 11th, 2018 45m 59s

As a former Governor of Mississippi, US Ambassador, and Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus has managed a wide range of challenges during his varied career. In discussion with his former Department of Defense colleague and Resilient World host Ch

Ready or Not? Max Brooks on How People and Societies Fail to Plan for the Worst

Jun 27th, 2018 42m 3s

Although bestselling novelist Max Brooks is best known for authoring page-turning fiction about zombie attacks, his books have practical implications for considering society’s level of preparedness for crises that are much closer to reality. I

How To Manage A Crisis: Admiral Thad Allen and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Deepwater Horizon

Jun 13th, 2018 41m 47s

Born to a Coast Guard officer, it was perhaps inevitable that Thad Allen would also become a ‘shallow water sailor’. His thirty-nine-year career saw him rise to the very top, serving as the Coast Guard’s 23rd Commandant from 2006 to 2010, and c

‘Dr. Doom’: Lisa Monaco on Tackling Transnational Threats, Terrorism and Cybersecurity

Jun 6th, 2018 47m 42s

From the court room to the White House Situation Room, Lisa Monaco has been part of framing the legal and policy response to some of the most difficult and thorny issues our society has grappled with in recent years. As a federal lawyer, Monaco

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