The CP Journal's Academy
Get Left of Bang—Before the Moment That Matters
Emergency management, public safety, and security professionals operate in environments where uncertainty is normal and decisions carry real consequences.
The problem isn’t effort or intent. It’s that organizations are often forced to act too late, with unclear structure and limited confidence in early decisions.
The CP Journal’s Academy exists to address that gap.
Rather than offering disconnected tools or one-off training, the Academy focuses on building left-of-bang capability—helping professionals recognize meaningful signals earlier and make defensible decisions before outcomes are locked in.
The Academy is designed to be explored over time—whether you’re building foundational understanding, developing specific capabilities, or pressure-testing how your organization prepares, decides, and acts.
Subscribers gain access to structured education, playbooks, briefings, and practical guidance designed to strengthen preparedness as an operational capability, not a checkbox.
Full access to the Academy is available to paid subscribers of The CP Journal.
Courses and Playbooks
Foundational education and applied tools to build left-of-bang capability.
Develop the behaviors and analytical discipline required to recognize baseline patterns, detect anomalies, and assess emerging threat behavior.
Practice structured observation and decision-making through video instruction and applied exercises grounded in the Left of Bang approach.
Access the Basic Course and the Advanced Course.
A step-by-step approach to leading preparedness and resilience projects as capability-building efforts, not administrative tasks.
Clear structure for moving projects from intent to execution—so teams can respond faster, adapt under pressure, and recover more effectively when disruption occurs.
Practical analysis, articles, and resources to support evacuation planning, training, and exercise design.
Grounded in real-world projects with communities and agencies facing wildfire, disaster, and large-scale evacuation challenges.
Strategic frameworks to improve organizational awareness, prioritization, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Tools and guidance to develop localized readiness capabilities—without outsourcing judgment or relying on external solutions to do the thinking for you.
Featured Briefings
Focused discussions on emerging threats, decisions, and preparedness challenges.
There is a recurring failure mode that forces organizations to act too late, with too little structure and too much ambiguity.
This briefing offers a disciplined, real-world approach to recognizing early signals and making defensible decisions before violence occurs.