With disasters increasing in frequency and severity, now is the time to find new and better ways to sustain the great people who serve their communities before, during and after disaster. This webinar will unpack the three missing pieces we must address to protect people from burnout and equip leaders and teams to thrive under pressure. Benefit from hard-won, practical insights so you can turn the three missing pieces into three incredible opportunities to sustain mission-driven people.
As a cognitive scientist and specialist in large-scale disaster, Jolie shares insights from cognitive science, global research and decades of supporting teams in high-pressure, high-stake environments. You can look forward to a session filled with stories, science and practical strategies that you can take away for immediate impact for you, your team and your organization.
Jolie Wills is a cognitive scientist with expertise in psychosocial recovery in the wake of disaster. Jolie is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquakes and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She led the psychosocial recovery program for New Zealand Red Cross in response to the earthquakes and has supported those working in disasters around the world.
With Hummingly, Jolie works to build recovery capacity – packaging the learning from disasters to make disaster recovery a little easier for impacted communities and for those working to support them. She has studied the missing pieces that are needed to effectively sustain the supporters in the wake of disaster and has been involved in building recovery capacity and in supporting the supporters in disasters here in the US, in Australasia and the Pacific.
Jolie is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos and is an advising member to the global Counter Terrorism Prevention Network.