UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
NEXT WEBINAR
AUGUST 2024
Wednesday 28 August, 10:00 AM (AEST) | 8:00 AM (AWST) | 12:00 PM (NZST)
Compassion in Disaster Management: The Essential Ethic of Relational Leadership
Should leadership minimise suffering?
Mark Crosweller argues yes: and he offers leaders, especially those in disaster management, a way to improve their ability to lead, serve, and protect others during disasters and crises.
Drawing upon his own experiences as a disaster management specialist as well as high-level interviews with disaster management leaders from the USA, Australia and New Zealand, Crosweller bridges theory and practice to achieve three objectives:
- To establish the political and socio-cultural context in which disaster management leaders find themselves when seeking to protect citizens and minimise their suffering and vulnerability.
- To provide an empirical account of how certain sociocultural influences affect their efficacy as leaders and that of their organisations, when seeking to improve well-being, provide protection, and reduce suffering and vulnerability.
- To propose a relational leadership framework centred upon an ethic of compassion, and supported by behaviours, characteristics, and practices that can guide leaders when addressing the causes of suffering and vulnerability across the entire disaster management cycle.
Mark Crosweller’s new book, Compassion in Disaster Management: The Essential Ethic of Relational Leadership is an essential text for aspiring and experienced leaders, especially those in the fields of Emergency Medical Services, fire services, law enforcement, and emergency management. It will also appeal to students and researchers in related disciplines.
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Mark Crosweller AFSM has 40 years of experience in crisis, national security, and emergency management, leading major strategic reform in governance, strategy, policy, operations, and capability.
Between 2012-2020 as Director-General of Emergency Management Australia and Head of the National Resilience Taskforce, Mark was responsible for briefing the Prime Minister and Cabinet on disaster management and providing strategic policy advice on climate and disaster risk reduction and resilience.
Mark is now the Founder and Director of Ethical Intelligence; Senior Advisor and Luminary to KPMG advising on disaster management, resilience, and leadership ethics; Distinguished Advisor to the National Security College – Australian National University; and published Author. Mark’s ongoing research interest is in relational leadership ethics in senior executive leadership within the private sector, public service, national security, and disaster management sectors.
2024 SCHEDULE
JANUARY 2024
Wednesday 31 January, 10:00 AM (AEDT) | 7:00 AM (AWST) | 12:00 PM (NZDT)
FEBRUARY 2024
Wednesday 28 February, 10:00 AM (AEDT) | 7:00 AM (AWST) | 12:00 PM (NZDT)
JUNE 2024
Wednesday 26 June, 10:00 AM (AEST) | 8:00 AM (AWST) | 12:00 PM (NZST)
SEPTEMBER 2024
Wednesday 25 September, 10:00 AM (AEST) | 8:00 AM (AWST) | 12:00 PM (NZST)
NOVEMBER 2024
Wednesday 27 November, 10:00 AM (AEDT) | 7:00 AM (AWST) | 12:00 PM (NZDT)