Hear from the Rising From Ground Zero authors about 9/11 and the FDNY's Path through Crisis to Transformation

During and after the shock of 9/11, FDNY firefighters and other responders experienced unprecedented change in organizational management and leadership. This book compiles never-before-published author-conducted interviews about how the FDNY firefighters processed change over the past decades, a challenge which continues today. This presentation and book will help readers to see, learn, and apply lessons in crisis management, leading in hard times, and succeeding in organizational change.

The event will take place in Montgomery Auditorium on the Ground Floor.

More about the authors:

Gregory P. Shea, PhD, is Senior Fellow at the Wharton Center for Leadership and ChangeManagement, Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Implementation Science(PISCE), and adjunct Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Brown is a retired New York City Fire captain and educator. A third-generation firefighter, Paul spent over thirty years as a first responder. While a member of the FDNY Incident Management Team, he deployed numerous times to natural disasters and wildfires throughout the nation. He speaks regularly on managing crises, high-stakes decision making and organizational change.

André Kotzé is the founder of AirtimeBA and Principal Consultant at Teamworks Training andDevelopment. A veteran with 30 years of field experience, including 15 years in mountain rescue and refugee camps, he developed AirtimeBA to categorize human interaction through "behavioraltelemetry." Beyond his role as researcher and writer for this study, Andre converts observable behaviors into measurable frameworks that make professional conversations meaningfully better.

About the Moderator:

Annie McKee, PhD, is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches leadership and emotional intelligence at the Graduate School of Education. A bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 25 languages, she wrote influential titles including How to Be Happy at Work and co-authored Primal Leadership. Her work explores how purpose, hope, friendship, and emotional intelligence help people thrive and succeed at work.

The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees.

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