On March 6, 2024, LinkedIn recognized CrisisLead founder and CEO Christopher Stitt as a “Top Voice in Emergency Management” among selected experts in the field.
They signified this by the addition of the gold Community Top Voice badge added to to his profile.
What are Top Voices?
Top voices are a select group who actively contribute quality content to collaborative articles for the benefit of others. Per LinkedIn, “Collaborative articles are a new way to tap into the collective knowledge of the LinkedIn community so you can learn from experts across professional topics. These articles begin as AI-powered conversation starters, developed with our editorial team, but they aren’t complete without insights from our members. A select group of experts have been invited to contribute their own ideas, examples and experiences within the articles.”
Contribution to these articles is by invitation only. LinkedIn identifies experts “based on their work experience, skills proficiency, and prior engagement on the platform.
These selected experts are eligible to be further recognized through the community Top Voices program.
LinkedIn describes the program on their answer page. “The gold Community Top Voices badge recognizes noteworthy contributors who share their expertise and experience in a specific skill or skills through contributions to collaborative articles. To earn a badge, you’re typically in the top 5% of contributors and one of the first 2500 badge holders for a particular skill. We determine the top 5% of contributors by looking at a variety of factors, including quality, engagement, and quantity of contributions.”
Why Participate?
Ultimately the goal is to share knowledge and insights, strengthening the community and building the next generation of experts. CrisisLead is proud to participate in this program. Chris appreciates the recognition of our CEO as a Top Voice in Emergency Management.
Emergency Management Experience
Chris has decades of experience in emergency management with the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. His service includes two stints as the Chief of Emergency Planning for the Department. He led the cross-functional process to redevelop the enterprise-wide emergency management policy. This policy is used by more than 270 U.S. Embassies and Consulate around the world. Through this process, Chris worked with partners and stakeholder to incorporate updated standards, methods, and lessons learned. Chris also oversaw the development of both generations of software used by the remote locations to create viable, accurate and useable emergency action plans.
Chris has helped manage countless emergencies while serving in leadership roles in five countries in Central America, Africa, and the Middle East. This included managing responses to kidnappings, missing persons, bomb threats, intruders, suspected biological attacks, wide-spread civil disorder, and more.
While assigned to Diplomatic Security Headquarters, Chris served on several national-level task forces supporting embassies engaged in emergency management. He served as the Diplomatic Security representative to the Department of State Crisis Management Council Steering Committee and numerous crisis management working groups. He was also dispatched to two additional countries to provide on the ground assistance and guidance.
Emergency Management Expertise
Chris has led numerous table-top, functional, and full scale exercises. He utilizes the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Process. This includes a series that culminated in half-day full-scale exercise. This event involved close to 20 stakeholder groups, 3000 personnel, two fire stations, two hospitals, helicopter medevac, hazmat response, explosive ordinance disposal, security forces and multiple operations centers. He also led the after action review and improvement planning process.
The International Association of Emergency Managers credentialed Chris as a Certified Emergency Manager in 2018 and 2023. FEMA granted Chris his certificate as a Professional Continuity Practitioner in 2021. The Institute of Presilience credentialed him as Registered Presilience Practitioner in 2023.
Chris teaches Homeland Security courses as Adjunct Faculty at George Mason University. In his Introduction to Homeland Security course, Chris uses a series of table-top exercises as case studies. These help the students understand the coordinated efforts of the homeland security enterprise to address local, regional, and national challenges.
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