Susanne Jul

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Driving Force

Education

Our goal is to improve community disaster resilience by entraining skills and behaviors that are fundamental to effective crisis leadership. (OK, that was an editorial "we." I hope that is a temporary condition.) At present, my focus is on developing a conceptual understanding of spontaneous leadership in the improvised response to disaster. The questions I am seeking to answer are: — Under what circumstances does Spontaneous Leadership emerge? — What makes Spontaneous Leadership successful? — Who is likely to become a Spontaneous Leader? — What skills and behaviors do Spontaneous Leaders need to succeed? My goal is to use this understanding as basis for deve...