24 Hours Inside the President ’ s Bunker ; 9 / 11 / 01 : The White House Robert J . Darling , President & CEO , Turning Point Crisis Management-USA
Lt . Col . Darling retired from the United States Marine Corps in 2007 with just over twenty years of active-duty service . After an impressive early career piloting attack helicopters in Desert Shield , Desert Storm , and as a presidential pilot with Marine Helicopter Squadron One , he was handpicked in October 2000 to work for the White House Military Office , Airlift Operations Department . It was in this position that , during the attack of September 11 , 2001 , he supported the President , Vice President , and National Security Advisor in the underground President ’ s Emergency Operations Center ( PEOC ) and witnessed unprecedented leadership and decision making at the highest levels of our government . Lt . Col . Darling chronicles these developments in his book : 24 Hours Inside the President ’ s Bunker ; 9 / 11 / 01 : The White House , and shares the principles of crisis leadership and decision making with his audiences with an “ edge of your seat ” presentation that ’ ll take you from the moment the attack was realized , to the courageous decisions made to stop it , to the safeguards and policies our country now has in-place in an attempt to prevent it from ever happening again . This presentation is designed to ensure we , as a nation , never forget the events of 9 / 11 / 01 , and to inspire all leaders to take the necessary steps within their power to protect and safeguard their employees , their organizations , and their communities .
This presentation is designed to familiarize you with specific roles and responsibilities of leadership during an incident and covers the tenets of crisis leadership to include Sensing , Decision Making , Meaning Making , Terminating , and Learning ( SDMTL ). This model enables leaders to recognize , organize , make decisions , recover , and learn from any crisis . The objectives of this Module will involve empowering leadership to :
�� What is crisis leadership and what are the key attributes of an effective crisis leader
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Course of Action Development
Decision Making and the use of the OODA Loop The Art of Crisis Communications
�� The Challenges of “ Authority ” and “ Trust ”
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Terminating and Learning
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