Experts

Here are some of the experts participating with Agincourt Strategies to deliver training, education and consulting.

Chief Bill Boyd

Chief Bill Boyd is a 28 year veteran in the fire and emergency medical services profession, and has been Chief of a mid-sized urban fire department in the US northwest since 2003. He has extensive incident command experience in managing large and complex emergency and planned events. He also served as an incident commander for a regional type III all-hazards incident management team, responding to large scale emergencies around the region and state. His unique incident command and public information officer experience, coupled with his advocacy and use of social media tools for crisis response has established him as a thought leader in the social media for emergency response field. He consults for the US Department of Homeland Security as part of the Virtual Social Media Working Group. He is the author of several research papers and public safety blog articles His blog is appropriately titled “It’s Not My Emergency.”

Neil Chapman
Alpha Voice Communications

Neil is principal at AlphaVoice Communications, a communication consultancy he formed after a distinguished career in journalism and corporate communications leadership. In his 25 years in communications Neil has responded to some of the largest events of the past decade. In various communication roles with BP, he was deeply involved in major events including the Texas City Refinery accident, the Alaska pipeline corrosion issues, the Thunder Horse platform crisis of Hurricane Dennis, and, of course, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon event. Neil applies the often difficult lessons learned from these and other events to guide senior leaders and communication executives in preparing to respond to major reputation crises and natural disasters.