John J. Jordan, Managing Director
John has over forty years of government leadership and management experience, including extensive experience planning, coordinating and executing a broad spectrum of disaster response, military operations and humanitarian support operations, both within the United States and internationally.
He has extensive experience working with the United Nations and various international Non-Governmental Organizations during actual disaster response operations, as well as in training programs and exercises. His international experience includes planning, conducting exercises and/or participating in disaster response operations in seventeen countries throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
He has served in senior disaster management positions during 21 major disaster response operations, including the September 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, the 2005 response to Hurricane Katrina, during which he was a Senior Military Adviser to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and four major pandemics & epidemics.
John has extensive knowledge of, and experience with the U.S. Incident Command System (ICS), the U.S. Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), and the U.S. National Response Framework, including instructor experience in these areas at the international, national, state and local level.
John is a certified contingency planner and has developed over eighty consolidated emergency management plans and hazard specific plans, including over forty infectious disease pandemic plans at the national, state, local and corporate level. He has used his experience to train contingency planners for various organizations and academic institutions for over twenty years.
He has over fifteen years of experience working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
He has excellent knowledge of local and state emergency management systems, including personal experience working with many state, county, and city governmental leaders and agencies during actual disaster response operations, planning projects and exercises.
John has over twenty years of experience in the specific field of crisis communications planning, having worked with various entities, including FEMA, the CDC, the WHO and many other stakeholders to conduct crisis communications planning and to implement communications solutions for a variety of "real world" crisis events.
John also has over twenty years of experience preparing and conducting emergency management exercises, from table-top exercises to full scale simulations involving thousands of inter-agency participants from local, state and federal agencies, as well as international organizations and governments.
His education includes Masters Degrees in Business Administration (MBA) and in Military Arts and Science (MMAS) and a Bachelor's Degree (BA) in Geography, as well as an international fellowship at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland for which he received a Certificate of International Security Policy. He often works with universities and colleges in the fields of emergency management and business continuity management and has served as an exercise facilitator, guest lecturer and adjunct faculty member for various private and public educational institutions in the United States and Europe.
John is a Chapter President with the Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP) and is an active member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the Association of American Geographers (AAG).
You can contact John at johnjordan@crisismgt.org
He has extensive experience working with the United Nations and various international Non-Governmental Organizations during actual disaster response operations, as well as in training programs and exercises. His international experience includes planning, conducting exercises and/or participating in disaster response operations in seventeen countries throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
He has served in senior disaster management positions during 21 major disaster response operations, including the September 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, the 2005 response to Hurricane Katrina, during which he was a Senior Military Adviser to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and four major pandemics & epidemics.
John has extensive knowledge of, and experience with the U.S. Incident Command System (ICS), the U.S. Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), and the U.S. National Response Framework, including instructor experience in these areas at the international, national, state and local level.
John is a certified contingency planner and has developed over eighty consolidated emergency management plans and hazard specific plans, including over forty infectious disease pandemic plans at the national, state, local and corporate level. He has used his experience to train contingency planners for various organizations and academic institutions for over twenty years.
He has over fifteen years of experience working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
He has excellent knowledge of local and state emergency management systems, including personal experience working with many state, county, and city governmental leaders and agencies during actual disaster response operations, planning projects and exercises.
John has over twenty years of experience in the specific field of crisis communications planning, having worked with various entities, including FEMA, the CDC, the WHO and many other stakeholders to conduct crisis communications planning and to implement communications solutions for a variety of "real world" crisis events.
John also has over twenty years of experience preparing and conducting emergency management exercises, from table-top exercises to full scale simulations involving thousands of inter-agency participants from local, state and federal agencies, as well as international organizations and governments.
His education includes Masters Degrees in Business Administration (MBA) and in Military Arts and Science (MMAS) and a Bachelor's Degree (BA) in Geography, as well as an international fellowship at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland for which he received a Certificate of International Security Policy. He often works with universities and colleges in the fields of emergency management and business continuity management and has served as an exercise facilitator, guest lecturer and adjunct faculty member for various private and public educational institutions in the United States and Europe.
John is a Chapter President with the Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP) and is an active member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the Association of American Geographers (AAG).
You can contact John at johnjordan@crisismgt.org