Leadership in Blue Skies & Gray Skies

Are you looking for some insight on what your community might need most during its most trying time? What about what it needs on its best day? Check out this webinar with Dr. Mary Schoenfeldt to learn all about leadership during good times and bad, what people need to know most in a crisis, and how we can manage our own stress levels so that we can be the best leader possible.

Dr. Mary Schoenfeldt is an Emergency Management Professional with a passion for helping people understand the challenges of crisis of all kinds, including day-to-day stress.

She is known for her work with private business, health care, government, schools and community groups. She has worked with groups all over the world and has responded personally to all types of incident, from natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and floods to airline accidents, school and community violence, and mass fatality incidents.  She stepped in to take the job nobody ever wants to have to fill: The Director of Recovery for a school district who had a mass murder suicide in the high school cafeteria.  And she was tasked with coordinating the mental health and support services in an Emergency Operations Center in a community that suffered the most catastrophic mass fatalities incident in the State of Washington.  During the pandemic, she has been supporting those responders who stepped in and stepped for a prolonged event that has impacted every single person in the world.

She is a Hall of Fame Member at the International Network for Women in Emergency Management (InWEM), a Faculty member at FEMA’s  Emergency Management Institute, is a subject matter expert for US Department of Education, was honored with a Real Hero Award from American Red Cross,  has been recognized by the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM)  and earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation.