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Preparedness and the Pursuit of Mastery

Readiness Workshop Workspace | Prolonged Power Outage

Week 4 - Tuesday | Close out the Project

Week 4 - Monday | Draft the Workshop Report

Week 3 - Thursday | Send the Post-Workshop "Thank You" Emails

Week 3 - Wednesday | Facilitate the Workshop

Week 3 - Monday | Final Event Preparations

Week 2 - Friday | Getting Ready for the Post-Workshop Report

Week 2 - Thursday | Lead the Facilitator Briefing

Week 2 - Wednesday | Anticipating Participant Responses

Week 2 - Tuesday | Prepare for the Facilitator Briefing

Week 2 - Monday | Engaging Participants and Shaping Perception

Week 1 - Friday | Week 1 Recap

Week 1 - Thursday | Participant Guide Preparation

Week 1 - Wednesday | Preparing to Facilitate

Week 1 - Tuesday | Presentation Deck Preparation

Week 1 - Monday | Announcing The Workshop

Day 0 | Project Kickoff

Blake Paris on Buy-In, Leadership, and Security

Pathways to Power Outages

The Organizational Problem Behind Operational Failure

Readiness Workshop | Prolonged Power Outage

The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency | When Performance Depends on Partners

How Organizations Learn to See What’s Coming

Webinar | Leading Organizations Left of Bang

Leading Organizations Left of Bang | Webinar Resources

What are you preparing for? Event assessment explained.

Learning the Hard Way Is a Strategy. Just Not a Good One.

The Leadership Required to Get Left of Bang

Leading Left of Bang | Webinar

Systems That Support a Resilient Mental State

Left of Bang Evolved with Patrick Van Horne

The Role of Fiction in Getting Left of Bang + a Book Recommendation

The People You Can’t Afford to Lose Are the First to Go

The Four Preparedness Personas: Where Your Organization Fits

When Activity Becomes the Illusion of Readiness

Executive Summary: Preparing the Organization You Will Need

Preparing the Organization You Will Need

The Gap Between Activity and Readiness

Noise, Signals, and Decisions

The Three Levels of Left of Bang

The Window After Disruption & Repositioning Left of Bang

The Individual Readiness Playbook

Chapter 6 | The Discipline of Being Ready

Chapter 5 | Staying Put, Intentionally

Chapter 4 | Evacuating and Getting Out in Time

Chapter 3 | Do you stay or do you go?

Chapter 2 | Beyond Fear and Gear

Chapter 1 | A Different Way to Prepare

The Individual Readiness Playbook

Left of Bang Presentation Toolkit | Colorado KravMaga Conference

Institutionalizing the Edge

Seeing, Changing, Evacuation Rehearsals, and More

Projects as the Engine of Change

Rehearsing the Evacuation Before You Need It

The Capability Behind the Capability, the Parking Prophet, Extremes & More

Responding to Setbacks & Growing Through Disruptions

Projects Are the Proving Ground

Better Planning, Doctrine-based Decisions, Learning & More

Can People Get Out in Time?

Seeing Threats Sooner, Limits to Awareness, Public Expectations & More

The Project Execution Playbook

When Awareness Isn’t the Problem

Webinar Preview | Seeing the Threat Sooner

Webinar | Seeing the Threat Sooner

When Awareness Becomes an Advantage

A Changing World, a Future of War, Executive Job Searches & More.

The Normalization of Attacks, Political Risks in 2026, Command Under Fire, and More.

What is readiness?

Defining Readiness, an Evacuation Planning Case Study, Building Arks, and More.

Building Evacuation Capability in Lone Tree