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Leading After the Storm: How to Communicate, Calm, and Coordinate in the Wake of Disaster A Human-Centered Guide for Crisis Leadership Across Sectors and Cultures A plane crashes without warning. A flash flood sweeps through a summer camp. A quiet shopping trip erupts into chaos. A ceiling collapses at an airport arrivals hall. When disaster strikes-large or small, public or personal-someone must step forward. Not perfect. Not heroic. Present. Leading After the Storm shows how ordinary people become extraordinary anchors when everything unravels. From a school principal evacuating children during a flash flood to a retired nurse coordinating neighbors during a wildfire, these pages reveal how you can lead through chaos with calm, clarity, and compassion. In This Book, You'll Learn How to: Communicate with calm authority when information is incomplete. Steady a frightened crowd in schools, airports, workplaces, or shelters. Navigate cultural differences, collective grief, and trauma recovery. Apply a flexible leadership framework in any setting. Support your own nervous system while stabilizing your team's. Turn high-pressure moments into credible leadership - not burnout. Why This Book Is DifferentYou'll travel through vivid case stories-from Puerto Rico's earthquake shelters to the India plane crash aftermath, from Texas floods to urban lockdowns-watching people just like you wrestle with impossible choices. Each vignette shows what works, what fails, and how to recover quickly without losing humanity. This isn't a book about heroic one-off rescues. It's about sustainable, emotionally intelligent leadership that centers people, context, and compassion-leadership you can teach, repeat, and scale, even in everyday crises. Who This Book Is ForWhether you're coordinating supplies, leading a workplace evacuation, running a staff debrief after a tragedy, or comforting a family who's lost everything, Leading After the Storm equips you to become the steady force people can rely on when the world tilts. Your Next StepDon't wait for the next crisis to find out how you'll lead. Start here.

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Dr. Karissa Thomas is a globally recognized educator, leadership strategist, and the founder of Efficient Adjuster(TM). With over two decades of experience spanning corporate America, international education, and crisis recovery, she has trained leaders across the U.S., the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her work bridges emotional intelligence and operational leadership, empowering everyday people to lead through upheaval with clarity, care, and cultural awareness. Dr. Thomas has contributed to national research initiatives, advised NGOs, and supported frontline professionals navigating the emotional and logistical demands of post-disaster recovery. This book is her call to leaders everywhere: you don't need to be perfect-just present, steady, and willing to lead from within.

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