Mike McKenna

The Response Leadership Sequence (TM) Mike McKenna

In The Response Leadership Sequence(TM), Mike McKenna shares battle-tested steps to immediately improve how a leader responds to a crisis of any size. With hundreds of examples and firsthand accounts, this book will inspire, equip, and propel any public or private sector leader wanting to fire up their career. Mike McKenna has served in the public sector as a disaster Search and Rescue responder including during Hurricane Katrina, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and hundreds of other lost and missing person searches. In the private sector, he has served as a private investigator and security consultant to some of the world's largest, well-known companies. Those diverse experiences exposed him to some high-performing leaders and to some who struggled to lead themselves or others. TEAM Solutions was started as a vehicle to improve those outcomes, and Mike now facilitates those lessons to over 1000 students each year through in-person and online courses. Intent upon simplifying and unifying how leaders respond to crises large and small, The Response Leadership Sequence(TM) provides an easy to follow road-map for success based on Mike's 30 years of research, experience, and hard-earned lessons from mistakes along the way. This book presents a specific, understandable, and actionable sequence for leaders who need to go toward any type or size of crisis and want to survive and thrive from beginning to end. Topics include a deep dive into the mindset of a successful Response Leader, the nine steps in a leader's readiness to act, the TEAM Solutions Wheel of Engagement(TM) for any team of any age, how to react and manage planned and unplanned events, and much, much more. Virtually every response leader will find themselves referring to this book time and time again as they advance through their career.