Lucien G. Canton, CEM, CPP, CBCP
Consultant at Lucien G. Canton, LLC
San Francisco, California
- As a consultant, he focuses in helping managers lead better in crisis by understanding the human factors often overlooked in crisis planning
- Teaches clients how to adapt to and thrive in new environments
- Has emerged as a major thought leader in emergency management, advocating the use of management concepts to professionalize a field that is often mischaracterized as a technical discipline
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- As a consultant, he focuses in helping managers lead better in crisis by understanding the human factors often overlooked in crisis planning
- Teaches clients how to adapt to and thrive in new environments
- Has emerged as a major thought leader in emergency management, advocating the use of management concepts to professionalize a field that is often mischaracterized as a technical discipline
- Frequent speaker at national conferences and guest lecturer at universities both in the United States and abroad
- His book, Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs, is used as a textbook for both graduate and undergraduate courses
- Has been involved in federal disaster planning at the national level and appointed by Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. in 1996 as the Director of Emergency Services for San Francisco
- Previously was in emergency management where he developed a reputation as a stabilizing influence in chaotic disaster operations, serving in over seventeen presidentially-declared disasters and on an elite national response team
