by brandirichardthompson | Apr 7, 2026 | Crisis Leadership, Federal Service & Public Policy
I want to tell you something that took me 20 years in federal service to fully understand, and a front-row seat to what’s happening in Washington right now to finally say out loud. Most Americans are operating with a dangerous assumption about emergency...
by brandirichardthompson | Mar 16, 2026 | Communications Strategy, Crisis Leadership
The Oscars are over. The dresses have been reviewed, the speeches have been dissected, and somewhere in Los Angeles, a publicist is already on their second cup of coffee wondering if their client said the right thing. If you watched last night, you saw beautiful. You...
by brandirichardthompson | Mar 9, 2026 | Crisis Leadership, Federal Service & Public Policy
What Crisis Response Reveals About Who You Actually Are There’s a principle in emergency management that doesn’t get taught in leadership books. It’s called the 72-hour window — the period after a disaster when outside help cannot be assumed and when...
by brandirichardthompson | Feb 23, 2026 | Communications Strategy, Crisis Leadership
What One Year of Mass Cuts Reveals About Who’s Leading — and Who’s Performing One year ago this month, the federal government began the largest mass layoff in modern American history. More than 300,000 federal workers — engineers, scientists, economists,...
by brandirichardthompson | Feb 2, 2026 | Crisis Leadership, Executive Coaching & Career
A Leadership Framework for Knowing When It’s Time Sixteen thousand people woke up Tuesday morning with jobs at Amazon. By lunch, they didn’t. This was the second mass layoff in three months. In October, 14,000 employees were cut. Leadership said at the...
by brandirichardthompson | Jan 26, 2026 | Courage & Culture, Crisis Leadership
And what real crisis leadership requires when your employees need you most Sixty CEOs recently revealed their true priorities by signing an open letter. The communication addressed “de-escalating tensions” related to ICE enforcement operations affecting...
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