The National Emergency Management Executive Academy
The Emergency Management Institute (EMI), in collaboration with prominent programs at higher education institutions, has created the National Emergency Management Executive Academy, to produce a comprehensive and cutting-edge curriculum that supports the advancement of the emergency management profession at strategic and policy levels, and its executive leadership.
This program is designed for current and future emergency management executives in State, local, Tribal, Territorial, and Federal government agencies; non-profit voluntary organizations; and the private sector. The Executive Academy instills current and future emergency management leaders with a deeper understanding of contemporary and emerging emergency management issues, debates, and public policy. It provides insights, theories, tools, and resources that enable decision-makers to think and act more strategically and to build capacity to protect against, prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all types of disasters. The Executive Academy provides the opportunity to work collaboratively, share smart practices, and participate in exercises with other senior leaders facing similar challenges.
Target Audience
Formal acceptance into the National Emergency Management Executive Academy will include participants from State, local, Tribal Nations, Trust territories, Federal Agencies, Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI), higher education institutions, recognized leaders in emergency management, related private industries, and voluntary organizations.
This course is designed for current and emerging executives at the national, State, regional, Tribal, Territorial, or major urban area levels. Ideal candidates will serve on major commissions and task forces or be responsible for making decisions that have a significant effect on national policy, or the management of disaster response and recovery activities. The audience may include, but is not limited to:
- Emergency management and homeland security directors or advisors;
- High-ranking administrators;
- Presidents or chairs of major professional organizations;
- Federal department heads of offices of emergency management or homeland security;
- Chiefs or directors of voluntary agencies or organizations; and
- Private sector executives leading major emergency management offices.
EMI will select up to 40 emergency management executives to participate in the Executive Academy per year. Each Cohort will reflect a Whole Community composition.
Classroom Course Requirements
The Executive Academy consists of four classroom courses, periodic webinars, readings, and case studies, and will culminate with an exercise-based course.
- E0680, Emergency Management—A Leadership Challenge 4 days
Partner organization – Harvard University, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative - E0682, Emergency Management in the 21st Century 4 days
Partner organization – U.S. Naval Post Graduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security - E0684, Integrating Science into Emergency Management Policies and Decisions 5 days
Partner organization – University of Hawaii – National Disaster Preparedness Training Center - E0686, Exercising Emergency Management Executive Policy and Decision-making 4 days
Partner organization – Texas A&M Engineering and Extension Service – National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center
Admission Process
Due to the limited number of available spaces within the program for each Cohort, applications will become part of a competitive selection process whereby our admissions committee will select the most qualified applicants for the program.
Open enrollment period for Cohort 2 will be in early Fall. Instructions detailing the application process will be posted at that time.
The tentative dates for the National Emergency Management Executive Academy Cohort 2 are:
E0680 Emergency Management – A Leadership Challenge
February 10 – 13, 2014
E0684 Integrating Science into Emergency Management Policies and Decisions
May 2014
E0682 Emergency Management in the 21st Century
July 21 – 24, 2014
E0686 Exercising Emergency Management Executive Policy and Decision-making
September 8–11, 2014
