Shoot the Horse and Build a Better Barn Door
This video is developed around Ronald Dorman’s Naval Postgraduate School Master’s thesis, “Shoot the Horse and Build a Better Barn Door: Exploring the Potential for …
Critical Thinking & Innovation
Cognition & Information
This self-study course helps to understand the mechanisms by which we make sense of information. The goal of the course is to shed some light …
Introduction to Meta-Leadership
In these engaging, self-paced, online modules, participants will become familiar with the three dimensions of meta-leadership practice and how they can help them lead through …
Systems Thinking
Emergency management and homeland security professionals faced with interrelated, wicked problems may be helped by the development of an ability to recognize, describe, understand, and work …
Ep 13: An Origin Story with Andy Mitchell
Many of our episodes have featured those leaders of today and visionaries of tomorrow, but in this episode, we’re having a conversation with one of …
Expeditionary Learning
Expeditionary learning is a learning philosophy based on the notion that learning is most effective when done within the context of its application, and through …
Introduction to Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a systematic human centered approach to problem solving that has been innovating industries from tech to retail to public service. For a …
Futurist Thinking and Planning
This module provides futurist thinking or strategic foresight and planning which has been used across industries and utilized by government agencies such as the DOD …
Root Cause Analysis
This module provides a roadmap to understanding the process of root- cause analysis and how this technique can aid problem-solving and mitigate issue recurrence. open …
Grand Challenges in Homeland Security
What global grand challenges we face today that will have an impact on the homeland security landscape twenty-five years from now? Today, a grand challenge …
The Pacific Executive Leaders Program
The Pacific Executive Leaders Program, delivered by CHDS and funded by FEMA, was created to develop collaboration and executive leader skills in times of crisis …
The Master’s Program at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security
The master’s program at CHDS is designed to educate emerging homeland security leaders to effect change and policies at their respective agencies and on a …
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