05/31/2017

Fire Chiefs Eye Diversity

How one organization is working to develop new leaders from underrepresented populations

To fight declining diversity in the fire and emergency services industry, the International Association of Fire Chiefs is working to develop new leaders from underrepresented populations.

In July, the International Association of Fire Chiefs will welcome the first class of fellows to its IAFC Diversity Executive Leadership Program (iDELP). Its goal: diversify the fire and emergency services workforce as well as national leadership.

“We have a real void of unrepresented groups in national leadership positions, and so one of the things we have wanted to do was to figure out how to get underrepresented groups positioned to move into the various national leadership positions in our organization, the federal government, other associations, and just generally at the top levels of fire and emergency services,” said IAFC CEO and Executive Director Mark W. Light, CAE.

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