The Crisis Lab Podcast
The Crisis Lab Podcast covers the mechanics of system failure, human behavior, and crisis response, with Kyle King and global experts. Authoritative, actionable, and everything you need to stay ahead of what fails next.
Season 4
2025 EM Wrapped: Year-End Emergency Management Review & 2026 Predictions
Dec 19, 2025
Operationalizing AI: How Senior Emergency Managers Can Fight Burnout with Tom Sivak
Dec 17, 2025
Governance, Bureaucracy, and Recovery Lessons from Christchurch with Brenden Winder
Dec 12, 2025
What Sweden's Transformation Tells Us About Gray Zone Reality
Nov 28, 2025
How Adversarial Stress Testing Reveals the Gray Zone
Nov 7, 2025
The Burden of Criticism: How External Pressure is Fracturing Emergency Management From Within
Oct 24, 2025
Inside IAEM 2025 and the Evolving Role of Emergency Managers with Toni Hauser
Oct 10, 2025
The Professional Development Paradox: Why Senior Leaders Are Intellectually Starving
Sep 29, 2025
Maritime Transport System (MTS) Recovery and Resilience with James Merten
Aug 15, 2025
The Velocity of Crisis: The Speed Gap That's Killing Communities
Aug 8, 2025
The Resilience Paradox: Why We Expect More From Citizens Than From Systems
Jul 25, 2025
Are We Measuring Against the Wrong Thing?
Jul 14, 2025
Suffocating Under Relief: How Emergency Management Lost Its Path to Coordination
Jul 4, 2025
The Courage to Say 'We Don’t Have the Answers': First Principles Reform in Emergency Management
Jun 20, 2025
The Same Old Answers Won't Solve New Problems
Jun 6, 2025
The Most Expensive Report Ever Written (Again)
May 9, 2025
Design Thinking in Integrated Crisis Management with Rick Fernandez
Mar 14, 2025
Alert to Action: Infection Prevention in Crisis Mode
Feb 28, 2025
Adapt, Survive, Thrive: Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems with Nathan Gross
Feb 14, 2025
The End of Emergency Management (as we know it) with Kyle King
Jan 31, 2025
Season 3
A Look Back on 2024 with Kyle King
Dec 29, 2024
Rethinking EM Part 2: Misinformation and the Erosion of Trust with Todd De Voe
Dec 8, 2024
Rethinking EM Part 1: From Resilient to Anti-Fragile with Todd De Voe
Nov 24, 2024
Innovative Crisis Exercises: From Design to Execution with Sophia Klewer
Nov 3, 2024
Borderless Disasters Require Borderless Diplomacy with Lamar Medlock and Lee Howell
Sep 8, 2024
Innovative Strategies for Long-Term Emergency Preparedness with Lorraine Schneider
Aug 25, 2024
Principles in Action: Ethical Decision-Making in Disasters with Roman Tandlich
Aug 11, 2024
Harnessing Business Continuity For Effective Community Crisis Response with Alex Fullick
Jul 28, 2024
Integrating Digital Safety in the Food Industry with Kristin Demoranville
Jul 14, 2024
EU vs NATO: Comparing Resilience in Civil Preparedness with Rade Rajkovchevski
Jun 9, 2024
Climate-Induced Relocation and Security Issues with Patrick Marchman
May 5, 2024
Consequence Management: Dealing with the Aftermath with Aaron Marks
Apr 14, 2024
Strategic Crisis Leadership with Robert Fagan
Mar 31, 2024
Resilience to Resistance: Lessons from Ukraine with Vitālijs Rakstiņš
Mar 3, 2024
Navigating Global Crises with Crisis Lab
Feb 16, 2024
Season 2
Reflections and Lessons Learned in 2023 with Kyle King
Dec 29, 2023
Optimizing Crisis Management in Complex Organizations with Brendan Monahan
Dec 15, 2023
Leading in Crisis Amid High-Threat Decisions with Dr. Stuart Meyers
Dec 1, 2023
Insights into Civil-Military Planning and Disaster Response with Tim Lannan
Nov 17, 2023
Mass Migration: The Next Meta-Crisis with Jorge Rodriguez
Nov 3, 2023
Exploring Africa’s Disaster Risk Landscape with Dewald van Niekerk
Oct 13, 2023
How Social Capital Builds Resilience with Daniel Aldrich
Sep 29, 2023
Unveiling Disaster Diplomacy with Ilan Kelman
Sep 15, 2023
New Perspectives on Climate Resilience with Prof. Rajib Shaw
Aug 25, 2023
Rethinking the Role of Governance in Crisis Management with Aaron Marks
Jul 7, 2023
Bonus Episode: Innovating for Resilience: A Panel on Food and Water Security
Jun 23, 2023
Navigating the Information Maze with Chris Kremidas-Courtney
Jun 9, 2023
How to Prepare Your Business for Any Disaster with Erika Andresen
May 5, 2023
Resilience to Relocation: Navigating Climate-Induced Migration with Sara Belligoni
Apr 21, 2023
Bonus Episode: Climate Security and Community Resilience: Exploring the Nexus
Apr 14, 2023
How Systems Thinking Can Improve Emergency Management with Mr. C.J. Unis
Mar 10, 2023
Challenges in Sustainable Urban and Transport Planning with Dana Hoffman
Feb 3, 2023
What We Need to Understand About Disasters with Mr. Ricardo Mena
Jan 6, 2023
Season 1
Energy Security and the Problem With Renewable Energy with Andy Chastain
Dec 22, 2022
Special Episode: Disaster Tough Podcast – A 2022 Retrospective for Emergency Management Worldwide - Interview by John Scardena
Oct 14, 2022
Special Episode: Youth Preparedness with Sam Johnson
Sep 23, 2022
The State of Humanitarian Assistance with Sir Mark Lowcock
Sep 16, 2022
Complications of Humanitarian Help Distribution with Yosuke Okita
Aug 19, 2022
Food Security and Instability with Prof. William Chen
Jul 15, 2022
"Crowdsourcing" of Conflict with Bridget Johnson
Jun 17, 2022
Water Security and Conflict with Ashok Swain
May 20, 2022
Medical Intelligence with James Wilson
Apr 15, 2022
Climate Security, Conflict, and Resilience with Josh Bowen
Mar 18, 2022
Emergency Planning and Recovery from Disaster with Prof. Lucy Easthope
Feb 18, 2022
Introduction to the CCEM Podcast
Jan 26, 2022