In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser, along with Consultant Bray Wheeler, revisit the topic of Active Shooter Preparedness & Exercises.

Topics discussed include the current active shooter threat, preparedness efforts, active shooter exercises, planning for an active shooter incident, and more.

Related Episodes & Blog Posts

Managing Uncertainty – Episode #5: Leading during an Active Shooter Incident

Blog Post:  Active Shooter Training – Management Essentials

Bryghtpath’s Active Shooter Programs & Services

Free Intro Course: Active Shooter 101

Bryghtpath Case Study: Protecting Employees Through Planning and Exercises for Active Shooter Incidents

Bryghtpath Case Study: C-Level Active Shooter Exercise for a Major Utility Company

Crisis Playbook:  Active Shooter Plan

Episode Transcript

Bryan Strawser: Hello and welcome to the Managing Uncertainty Podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, Principal and Chief Executive here at Bryghtpath.

Bray Wheeler: I’m Bray Wheeler. I’m a Consultant here at Bryghtpath.

Bryan Strawser: And today, we want to talk a little bit about kind of rethinking active shooter preparedness and exercises. And I would say there’s a couple things that kind of stirred this conversation, and I know we’ve done a couple previous episodes on active shooter preparedness and maybe even exercises, and I certainly know we have an episode about leading through an active shooter incident that recorded with Jennifer Otremba and Lindsay Bradford who both used to work here at Bryghtpath, both of whom were with Bray and I on the day that we had a active shooter situation at our former employer, across the street from our offices, that we kind of manage through, and we’ll link that episode in the show notes, it’s worth listening to.

Bryan Strawser: But what prompted this are really two things. There’s been a number of articles recently about after shooter drills or exercises that I thought were not well done and garnered a lot of negative press, and this is where we’ve got police running an exercise where they’re shooting people with airsoft guns and they’re firing off blanks and some other things, and so we want to talk a little bit about that and what makes a good active shooter exercise, particularly for students in the K-12 environment and workers in your organization’s facilities. But the other thing we want to just touch on is just some other thoughts on active shooter preparedness that have come out of the incidents that have happen