Emergency Management Consulting

Training and Exercises

Exercises that find the gaps before the emergency does.

Training that strengthens response, recovery, and resilience, and exercise programs that validate plans through discussion-based and operations-based exercises.

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The exercise should be the hardest day, not the incident.

A well-run full-scale exercise takes months of planning, a documentation package that runs to hundreds of pages, and evaluators who know what good looks like. Agencies with one or two staff cannot absorb that, so exercises slip, plans go unvalidated, and grant deliverables are met with the minimum effort.

High Street practitioners have designed, conducted, and evaluated hundreds of exercises for federal, state, and local agencies. We scope objectives with your leadership, develop the documentation to HSEEP standards, facilitate and evaluate on the day, and close the loop with an improvement plan that has owners and dates. Where it fits, Beehive compresses the development timeline from months to days.

What we deliver

Discussion-based exercises

Seminars, workshops, and tabletop exercises that walk leadership and partners through a scenario and surface the decisions nobody has made yet.

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Operations-based exercises

Drills, functional exercises, and full-scale exercises with controllers, evaluators, and the master scenario events list to run them.

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Training delivery

Instructor-led and virtual training on emergency management, incident command, and the plans your staff are expected to execute.

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Multi-year programs

Training and exercise plans that build capability over several cycles and satisfy grant requirements along the way.

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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.

North Carolina councils of government

Tabletop exercises in days instead of months.

Councils of government across North Carolina adopted Beehive, High Street's AI-powered exercise platform, with hands-on training from exercise development through after-action reporting.

Fairfax County staff briefed before a full-scale shelter exerciseEmergency managers training on Beehive in Asheville, North Carolina
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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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Tell us about your situation. We respond within one business day, and the first conversation is with a practitioner, not a salesperson.