Joanne Martin is recognized nationally for her knowledge and experience in disaster preparedness, emergency planning and continuity of operations planning.  Having led the growth of the company’s planning practice  since 2001, she has been involved in the development of more than 200 disaster readiness plans for state governments, local governments, non-profit organizations, colleges & universities and private sector businesses.

Under Ms. Martin’s direction her consulting teams have performed statewide planning projects in Illinois, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. She supported the Commonwealth of Virginia in attaining EMAP accreditation in 2005, and most recently assisted the State of North Carolina in its EMAP assessment in June 2008, which led to full accreditation, with a perfect score of 63 in October of that same year.

As the Director of the Emergency Management Consulting division, Ms. Martin guided the BDR Teams supporting regional catastrophic planning projects in some of the largest urban areas in the country including the cities of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Miami, St. Louis and San Diego.  Ms. Martin has served as a subject matter expert in the design and facilitation of large-scale exercises and workshops throughout the country – most recently for the Metro Washington Council of Governments, Miami-Dade County, North Carolina State University and Collin County, Texas, just North of Dallas.