Centering communities in preparing for an uncertain future
Community data is helping Ventura County better support its farmworker communities with services and crisis response that leaves no one behind and builds resilience.
Tag: crisis
Resilience First webinar – Emotional Resilience in the Rail Sector
One year on from the successful launch of Resilience First’s guide on Emotional Resilience – Preparing for and Recovering from Crisis, we are pleased to present a more focused wellbeing webinar aimed at the rail sector, in partnership with the Railway Industry Association.
‘Resilient Leadership: learning from crisis’ report launched – Get the report
The new report captures the emerging lessons for resilient leadership when dealing with a major crisis, the insights gained along the way, and the power of reflective learning to build leadership capability.
Resilient Leadership: Learning from crisis – an experiment in reflective learning during the Covid-19 pandemic
This report focuses on the role of leadership for resilience – leadership that promotes and enables complex systems (in this case corporations and large cities) to function and thrive in the face of a major crisis. Resilience is the ability to withstand, adapt to changing conditions, and recover positively from shocks and stresses. This applies […]
Insights into resilient leadership
A new initiative by The Resilience Shift, in partnership with the Global Resilient Cities Network, is shining the light on resilient leadership, capturing the reflections of 12 globally diverse senior leaders faced with the challenges of the coronavirus crisis.
Disaster v crisis? How the nature of the Covid-19 crisis affects our response.
How should we respond to a disaster or crisis such as Covid-19, the Australian bushfires or the floods in Indonesia? Jo da Silva, Resilience Shift Board member, reflects on what we mean by disaster and crisis, and how our understanding of the type of event should inform our response.
“Humans do our best when our backs are to the wall”
Lessons from Cape Town’s water crisis were shared at Scotland Climate Week with a plethora of interesting discussion points identified as relevant to the context of Scottish water governance
There’s nothing else like this in the world – John Heltzel interviewed on EARTH EX 2019
John Heltzel wants you – and your organisation – to join EARTH EX 2019 to test your resilience to a ‘black sky’ event. His experiences leading emergency response motivated him to help others become more prepared.
