Operational Intelligence for Health, Wellness, and Leadership addresses a gap in fire service literature on fire academy curriculum for health and wellness. Specifically, how to reduce the risk of heart attack, cancer, and suicide through lifestyle.

“Knowing that something is good for you does not necessarily translate into doing it. For example, in one study, researchers found that almost everyone (99.6%) agreed that exercise is good for you. However, many of the study participants lacked specific knowledge about which diseases are associated with a lack of exercise. Therefore, fire departments must go beyond simply telling firefighters that a certain behavior is good for you and do a better job of explaining the consequences of your behaviors.”
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The book also examines resilience and leadership to get beyond buzzwords and ties both of those concepts to health and wellness. The chapter on leadership challenges decades of leadership literature from academia to military to the fire service. It brings long sought-after clarity for distinguishing leadership from management, and leadership as a noun from leadership as a verb.

In the words of the late Chief Bobby Halton, “This book is going to change the fire service.”