Your Partner in Excellence
The mission of Derek Poarch and Associates, LLC is to advance our collective efforts of helping Emergency Communications Centers (ECC) in the United States achieve excellence not only for the agency, but also for the most crucial component of the ECC; the staff, and the citizens they serve daily. Working with ECCs around the country serving populations of at least 75,000 people or greater and having a staff of at least 16 employees or more is our area of practice.
With more than 200 years of combined experience operating ECCs, researching and teaching at the highest academic levels, and transforming various public safety organizations into high performing centers of excellence, we are uniquely qualified to help in the journey to transform your organization.
The team at Derek Poarch and Associates, LLC have faced your issues. We are passionate about those issues and are committed to helping organizations rise to a level not being achieved today.
Whether it’s an organizational assessment, executive search, workplace culture review, emotional intelligence assessments, promotional talent identification or individual candidate coaching we are available to partner with you in the pursuit of excellence.
Thank you for visiting. Please review our website and if you believe we can offer the help you need contact us for an in-depth discussion about your needs.
Recent Articles
Lead, Mentor, and Get Out of the Way
Reading Derek Poarch’s blog on the ‘Traits of Successful 9-1-1 Leaders” recently had me thinking more about leadership, specifically, how these traits apply as we find ourselves in the later stages of our careers. Many of us in public safety have heard the term “ROD” (retired on duty) or “ROAD”…
Traits of Successful 9-1-1 Leaders
I have spent some time recently thinking about the traits common to successful 9-1-1 leaders. Having spent decades studying leadership, largely centered around public safety and looking at numerous lists of leadership traits, and admittedly changing my views over time concerning what traits successful leaders possess I have finally narrowed…
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