Building Stronger, More Resilient Communities- One Leader at a Time
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Disruptions from natural, industrial, or human-caused disasters can strike without warning, challenging even the most vibrant community’s people, businesses, organizations, and systems.
At MYD Global, we believe resilient people and resilient businesses are the foundation of a resilient community. That’s why we equip leaders across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors with practical, proven tools for prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, along with engagement strategies that strengthen community and economic resilience.
As a boutique consulting firm serving clients since 2013, we deliver highly customized solutions designed around your unique needs. Our portfolio includes training, workshops, toolkits, strategic advisory services, and specialized recovery support tailored to help communities and organizations navigate disruption with confidence.
If you’re seeking effective strategies, tools, and resources that actually work, you’re in the right place.
Contact us today to learn how we can help your organization—and your community—become more disaster-resilient.​​
When a disaster strikes, will you be ready? Our Master Your Disaster series of guidebooks allows you to do just that. Author, Leann Hackman-Carty uses several real-world scenarios to help you visualize your own vulnerabilities and “Stand APART.” By following the steps of this simple acronym and Hackman-Carty’s other insightful advice, you will learn how to assess risk, plan your response, activate the plan, recover successfully, and template your activity into an easy-to-follow format. Disaster recovery is not an individual effort. Hackman-Carty’s work can help you start dialogues within your community, your business—even within your own family—about the best ways to keep everyone safe in the event of a major emergency. Don’t wait—the time is now!
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As the former head of the New Zealand Aid Program, managing disasters across the Pacific during cyclone season was an integral and critical dimension of my role. The information in this book is invaluable. With the rapid increase in natural disasters and severe weather events in recent years, disaster preparedness and planning is absolutely essential for individuals, communities and for businesses to mitigate risk, loss of life and cost. If only Leann Hackman-Carty's book had been compulsory reading before New Zealand's big earthquake hit Christchurch in 2011!
Amanda Ellis, Special Advisor to the President, East-West Center, Hawaii, USA and
Former Ambassador to the UN (Geneva) and Deputy Secretary International Development, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Leann's guidebooks on disaster recovery could not be more relevant or timely. Hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami's, earthquakes, monsoons, floods and fires make us all vulnerable since we don't know when they're going to happen, or the devastation they will leave behind. Preparedness is not an option but a necessity. Finding a way forward must be done. Whether it is short-term rebuilding or long-term recovery, we need to have a plan in place. Leann's guidebooks provide practical templates to help individuals, businesses and communities face less traumatic impacts by having a plan in place, and the necessary confidence to act. Having partnered with Leann on a manmade disaster in the past, the impact of designer drugs on Native Americans in the United States and Canada, I not only endorse her guidebooks for Canada but will personally recommend them to the seven public interest groups in the United States that represent states, cities, counties, regional communities and tribal governments. We must do better!
Loretta Avent, Former Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Intergovernmental Affairs,
White House Liaison to Indian Country and Liaison to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Office
Phoenix, Arizona
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The content in these guidebooks is invaluable to prepare businesses for a disaster. On a global scale we have witnessed the significant impact of disasters on businesses and communities. Being prepared for various risks is a smart thing for a business to do if it wants to have continuity of operations.
Barb Mowat, Small Business Expert & Founder of GroYourBiz
Vancouver, Canada
No business should be without a copy! In the Business Edition of Master Your Disaster, Ms. Hackman-Carty not only explains why you should have a method to handle any disaster, but also explains some of the economics of not being in business after a disaster. A great read for all businesses.
Howard Pierpont, Americas Business Continuity Coach, DERA Institute for Preparedness and Resilience
Greeley, Colorado
