Trauma-Informed Leadership: What Paramedics Can Teach Today's Executives
SCEMSA Webinar Series -FREE for SCEMSA MEMBERS- Executive leaders increasingly face environments that resemble the complexity and urgency of an emergency scene—fragmented information, rapidly shifting conditions, exhausted teams, and high-stakes decisions that demand both speed and accuracy. This presentation applies the mindset and methodology of paramedics to modern executive leadership.
Description
Trauma-Informed Leadership: What Paramedics Can Teach Today's Executives
Wade Mitzel, LSSBB, MSM, (past) NREMT-P
CEO and Senior Vice President, UofL Physicians
Executive leaders increasingly face environments that resemble the complexity and urgency of an emergency scene—fragmented information, rapidly shifting conditions, exhausted teams, and high-stakes decisions that demand both speed and accuracy. This presentation applies the mindset and methodology of paramedics to modern executive leadership.
Objectives
Participants will explore how principles such as rapid assessment, calm presence, prioritization under pressure, and trauma-informed awareness translate directly into stronger organizational decision-making. The session reframes leadership as a form of triage: discerning what requires immediate intervention, what needs stabilization, and what can safely wait. Leaders will learn how to reduce noise, build psychological steadiness, and cultivate teams capable of coordinated, values-aligned action—even in crisis.