2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “How you frame your argument is how you get them to listen.” —Jeff Okrepkie “We're willing to help anybody out that is going through this now or in the future.”...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: This recovery is slow, it's painful, and it's costly. We need patience, and aloha, and support because we're all in this together.” —Angus McKelvey “We have a lot of...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “Trust is so important to building a community of practice. And part of that trust comes from understanding where people are and where they stand.” —Michael McCormick ...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “It's not enough just to give, you have to always receive as well with the same grace and gratitude and aloha.” —Jennifer Gray Thompson “Aloha is boundless, and we know...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “Indigenous values can shift how we deal with disasters.” —Kainoa Horcajo Disaster recovery isn't just about rebuilding infrastructure— it's about honoring the deep...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “We are making a change and we are making a difference, and it all starts with culture.” —Kukui Keahi “[The silver lining] is neighbors helping neighbors.” —Melissa Baurer...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “It is becoming a cheerleader for the community that we're [private sector] back.” —Tim Zahner “It takes all of us to make a recovery. There are no heroes after the...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “The fact that the fire's not near you, it doesn't mean that energy is not going to affect you.” —Hani Taan “What we're trying to shore up is to not only protect assets...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “The solutions are creating those resilient landscapes.” —Marco Bey “It's going to come back to you. Is going to come back to how prepared you are? —how prepared can...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “We're going to have to come together in order to be climate resilient.” —Elizabeth Christy “The earth knows how to respond.” —Caitlin Cornwall ...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “There's no greater power, no greater strength, and no greater drive to persevere than when you're fighting for your family and you're fighting for your home, even in the face of...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “If we're not building with sustainable materials and we're not designing with sustainability in mind, we'll be in an even worse place environmentally.” —Andrew Rothgaber...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “You got to be able to get out there and be able to assess the situation, not only from the building standpoint but the infrastructure standpoint, so that your decision-makers have...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “We have to grow the ‘we’ if we're going to survive in the future.” —Supervisor James Gore Effective leadership is not about commanding authority, but about cultivating...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “It's never about benefiting our organization, it's about benefiting the cause.” —Jennifer Gray Thompson Day 2 of the 2024 Wildfire Leadership Summit is underway and...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “A shared vision of reality where we can all see what's happening allows us all to respond to the same thing accordingly.” —John Mills Preparing for the future of disasters...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “There's a lot that can be done if you open up the doors and just change the way that you do things.” —Jim Alvey “We don't do anything globally without partnerships. As a...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “Our mission should be developing communities to better withstand the challenges of our climate, building better and smarter in the first place, not just building back better....
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “The critical resources we used for this were imagination and creativity— things that are always with us, even immediately after a disaster. And by doing this, we have helped...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “Allow yourself the best you can to just release into all things in due time.” —Jacqui Jorgeson “It's important as leaders that we show those who we are leading that we...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “After disaster, there is plenty of information that you have to absorb, there's plenty of decisions you've got to make, there's plenty of problems you've got to solve, and prolonged...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “We need to stop looking at people in this country being victims all the time, but actually being the true first responder in every community, in every situation.” —Brock Long...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “We were rendering aid— food, medical, and those immediate needs until such that the government arrived. So we were in operation for 30 days.” —Kalikolehua Storer “Hard...
2024 WILDFIRE LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Episode Description: “We have one chance, and we have one chance to get this right. If we rebuild Lahaina only for Lahaina, we will fail. We have to rebuild Lahaina for all of Hawaii, for all of mankind,...
