Presenter Profile: Todd LeDuc
FRM presenters are experience fire service professionals. Hear from people like Todd LeDuc.
Todd J. LeDuc, MS, CFO, CEM, is the deputy chief of department for Broward (FL) Sheriff Fire Rescue a career metro department of nearly 600 members. Chief LeDuc has been with Broward for the past 20 years and in the service for the 24 years. Chief LeDuc was charter president for the National EMS Quality Association and has been an advocate for high performance EMS systems. He has worked with agencies in over a dozen states in strengthing performance and leadership systems for success and speaks and publishes frequently on fire services issues of safety and leadership.
Chief LeDuc’s topics will include how to market your department for success, learn from lessons of successful private sectors (do’s and don’t) and how to learn to read the lay of the land to assure your personal and organizations success! Marketing your department and its services are critical now more than ever as department budgets are under intense scrutiny. Learn how to implement easy take away strategies to assure your department and its mission is out in front of the public and elected officials. In Chief LeDuc’s lessons of private sector, you will learn how to measure outcomes for success and identify key processes that should be tracked to demonstrate how quality improvement can be applied to the fire service. This is especially important as fire departments are being asked to justify why resources are needed and to demonstrate meaningful outcomes. Finally, Chief LeDuc will present ” How to Read the Tea Leaves” which is a critical look at the role of situational awareness in the fire services. Participants will learn how situational awareness is developed and why it is a matter of life and death. The Chief will also discussed how situational awareness becomes a critical skill in the management world of the fire services as well.
