This is a very long podcast featuring Craig Fugate, a former FEMA administrator under the Obama administration. He came to that job with lots of disaster experience in Florida.
While James Lee Witt was the first “true” emergency manager who held the position of FEMA director (which was a Cabinet-level position in the Clinton administration), Craig came to the position with oodles of local and state experience and definite ideas for what FEMA could be and where the focus needed to change. He brought a number of improvements to the agency over his term that have extended beyond his tenure there.
“The podcast is described this way:
Craig Fugate led the Federal Emergency Management during the President Obama Administration. Craig famously used, 'So What?' as a way to help emergency managers prioritize tasks, created the Waffle House Index, and changed how FEMA staff operated in emergency (by making all staff members deployable emergency managers). Craig Fugate is a change agent and shares advice on how to improve in every phase of the disaster life-cycle. He know leads One Concern, focusing on mitigation through artificial intelligence. To view Craig's latest project, you can check out One Concern here: https://oneconcern.com/en/.”
