Courses, playbooks, and resources for getting left of bang at every level.
The Academy brings together the resources of The CP Journal into a structured learning path. Whether you're developing individual analytical skills, improving operational readiness, or strengthening organizational capability, the Academy is organized around the three levels of left of bang.
The Academy is available to paid subscribers of The CP Journal.
Featured | Left of Bang Webinar
Learn the three-step process for operationalizing left of bang by defining what matters, recognizing change early, and preparing your organization to act before consequences become unavoidable.
The Tactical Level
Develop the observation, decision-making, and personal readiness skills needed to recognize change early and act before conditions deteriorate.
The Tactical Analysis Course
The Tactical Analysis Course introduces the observation and threat recognition principles behind Left of Bang. Through video instruction, practical exercises, and real-world case studies, you’ll learn how to establish baselines, identify anomalies, and assess human behavior.
Develop the observation skills and analytical discipline required to establish baselines, 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.
Progress from foundational concepts to advanced applications through two levels of instruction.
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Start the Course | The Basic Course and The Advanced Course
Tactical Analysis Course | Executive Overview
This one-hour webinar introduces the underlying problem, explains why individuals and organizations consistently recognize threats too late, and outlines the observation and decision-making principles that form the foundation of the Tactical Analysis Course.
It’s an ideal introduction for supervisors, executives, and organizational leaders who want to understand the approach and share a common framework with personnel completing the course.
The Individual Readiness Playbook
Situational awareness is only valuable if it leads to action. The Individual Readiness Playbook helps you prepare for an uncertain future by developing the plans, capabilities, and resources needed before disasters, outages, and other disruptions occur.
Apply left of bang readiness concepts at the household level to recognize risk early and act before conditions deteriorate.
Build the capabilities required to evacuate when necessary and protect-in-place when appropriate during disasters, outages, and other disruptions.
Develop a practical framework for strengthening your personal and family preparedness over time.
The Operational Level
Develop the frameworks, planning processes, and decision-making systems that improve operational readiness before disruption occurs.
The Operational Readiness Playbook
The Operational Readiness Playbook provides a practical framework for applying left of bang concepts across teams and organizations. Through structured guidance, implementation tools, and practical examples, it helps leaders build the capabilities needed to improve preparedness, decision-making, and operational coordination before conditions deteriorate.
Develop an operational approach to recognizing emerging conditions and making timely decisions.
Build organizational capabilities that improve coordination, readiness, and response across teams.
Apply practical implementation tools to strengthen preparedness before disruption occurs.
Baselines & Anomalies
Baselines & Anomalies is a video series from The CP Journal exploring what current events and historical case studies reveal about our operating environment. Our goal is simple: to help you understand what's normal, what's changing, and what those changes mean for your organization.
The Strategic Level
Resources for building the long-term capabilities that position organizations to recognize change, adapt early, and stay left of bang.
The Project Execution Playbook
Preparedness projects often become administrative tasks instead of capability-building efforts. The Project Execution Playbook provides a practical framework for planning, leading, and completing readiness projects that strengthen organizational resilience long after the project itself is complete.
Lead preparedness and resilience projects as capability-building efforts, not administrative tasks.
Move projects from intent to execution through a structured implementation process.
Strengthen organizational readiness by building capabilities that endure beyond a single initiative.
Deep Dive: Six Elements of Your Operating Environment & Preparing for a Future You Can’t Predict
A comprehensive guide to understanding changes in your operating environment, determining what they could mean for your organization, and preparing for a future you can’t predict.
Learn the six elements used to assess and continuously monitor changes in your operating environment.
Build a practical process to separate observations from implications and develop options for what your organization could do next.
Turn emerging risks and opportunities into projects that strengthen your organization’s ability to adapt and stay left of bang.
Webinar | Leading Organizations Left of Bang
Strategic readiness begins with leadership. This webinar introduces a practical framework for helping organizations move from reacting to disruption toward intentionally building the capabilities needed to recognize change, make better decisions, and prepare before future disruptions occur.
Understand why many organizations improve only after something goes wrong.
Learn a practical framework for defining readiness and assessing organizational capability.
Build a leadership approach that prioritizes long-term preparedness over reactive improvement.
Readiness Workspaces
Guided implementation systems for turning ideas into completed preparedness projects with templates, facilitation guides, project management tools, and supporting resources.
Prolonged Power Outage | Readiness Workshop
A guided 30-day implementation system for emergency managers and public safety leaders to plan and facilitate a prolonged power outage readiness workshop.
Evacuation Resources
Analysis, articles, and resources to support evacuation planning and exercises.
New resources for The CP Journal’s Academy are always in development.