Leadership Symposium: Preparing for Disaster Resilience -Emerging Trends and Future Strategies
Instructor-CHDS (Center for Homeland Defense and Security)
Monday Only Class 28 March 2022
Evolving threats and future uncertainties create strategic challenges for today's and tomorrow's emergency management leaders. This symposium will employ a series of "futures scenarios" to elicit broader, long-term strategic thinking and allow participants to assess how potential future changes in our world may affect emergency management. Participants will explore global trends and their impact on the emergency management operating environment, in Oklahoma and beyond. Attendees will advance their critical thinking and strategic leadership skills through facilitated dialogues, small group activities, and foresight discussions designed to shape strategy, planning and decision making processes.
Symposium Objectives
-Use potential operating environment scenarios set in the year 2035 to stimulate long-range planning discussions for Oklahoma emergency management professionals.
-Identify significant issues and questions to address now and in the future.
-Consider emerging or evolving threats of concern, strategic needs and priorities, and opportunities for multi-jurisdictional, multi-disciplinary and multi-sector collaboration to prepare for the near-term future.