Emergency Management Consulting

After-Action Reports

Findings leadership will read. Corrective actions that get done.

Independent after-action reports that identify strengths and challenges and recommend actionable improvements, drawn from hundreds of reports for organizations across the U.S. and internationally.

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The same gap should not show up twice.

An after-action report written by the people who ran the response is rarely candid, and one written to a template is rarely read. Findings get softened, root causes go unnamed, and the improvement plan has no owners. Six months later the same gaps show up in the next event.

High Street evaluators collect data independently through hotwashes, interviews, document review, and observation. We separate a training gap from a staffing gap from a policy gap, so the corrective action fixes the right thing, and we write for two audiences: an executive summary leadership can act on and a detailed analysis program staff can work from.

What we deliver

Exercise after-action reports

HSEEP-format reports for tabletop through full-scale exercises, with evaluation guides and observations captured on the day.

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Real-world event reviews

After-action reports for incidents, activations, and planned events, conducted by evaluators who were not part of the response.

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Improvement plans

Corrective actions with owners, timelines, and the capability each one improves, formatted for your tracking system or for Beehive.

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Program trend analysis

Analysis across multiple exercises and events that shows leadership which gaps keep recurring and which fixes are working.

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Fairfax County, Virginia

A county shelter plan, tested at full scale.

Fairfax County asked High Street to design, conduct, and evaluate a full-scale exercise of its emergency shelter operations, including accommodations for people with access and functional needs.

Fairfax County staff briefed before a full-scale shelter exercise

Who you'll work with

Zach Becker

Zach Becker

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Barrett Alexander

Barrett Alexander

Principal, Preparedness and Workforce Development

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