April 1, 2026 - PM Session
This House Rocks – Achieving Firehouse Excellence

There is nothing quite like a firehouse. It can be the most incredible experience of your life or a miserable exile to purgatory. It can be a place of learning where skills are honed, and techniques refined or a stagnant cesspool where competence erodes into ineffective complacency. What is it that causes one place to be cohesive and brimming with camaraderie, while just down the road there is dissension and drudgery? Learn five key areas that can turn any firehouse into the type of place that enables firefighters to thrive and fulfill their calling. This class will look at how to build and enjoy the type of firehouse everyone wants.

April 2, 2026 - PM Session
The Art of Go/No Go!

The toughest and most critical decisions you make in your career typically revolve around committing to an interior attack or choosing another route. Seasoned officers know the difference between "We can get it" and "It's lost". You should too...

Utilizing a simple framework that allows you build on your experiences, and those of others, you can develop an intuitive approach that grows with you throughout your career. This is not a magic class, and no one becomes a great decision maker by attending a few classes and watching a few videos. The goal is to create a framework of 3 varying profiles: Rescue, Building and Fire. These profiles allow you to keep focused on your decisions and give you the ability to draw on what you’ve learned and react to changes in the dynamic fire environment.

This is intended to be both a useful strategic and tactical tool on the fireground, as well as a dynamic instructional tool that will greatly enhance fireground aptitude during drills. The Go/No-Go decision is the among the most critical you will ever make. This training seeks to help you make the best decisions possible.

April 1-2, 2026 - AM Sessions
Intoxicated Leadership:                                        Thinking Strategically vs. Reacting Emotionally

Traditional leadership classes often suggest that if leaders follow a checklist of setting clear expectations, holding people accountable, and enforcing standards, the rest will take care of itself. But anyone who has led for more than a minute knows that’s not how it actually works.

People debate responsibility and refuse accountability. They bring up what wasn’t said while misinterpreting what was. And sometimes—if we’re honest—they push back simply because they can.

What many of those other classes fail to disclose is this: Credibility isn’t usually lost by how you show up on calls, but in how you show up in conversations.

Intoxicated Leadership examines why that happens—not because leaders lack skill, but because the body reacts to pressure before the mind has time to think. When stress, emotion, ego, and urgency take over, strategy gives way to reaction, creating moments people notice and rarely forget: conversations that didn’t need to escalate, decisions that should have waited, and reactions leaders wish they could take back.

Using real-world examples and video, participants explore how the body perceives disagreement, why reactions escalate, and how emotional competencies can be learned and strengthened—not only at work, but also at home with children and spouses. You’ll see how emotion spreads through crews via emotional contagion, why fairness is experienced emotionally rather than rationally, and how communication breaks down when efficiency replaces presence.

The focus is on preventing unnecessary conflict, not just managing it after damage is done. Be prepared to laugh (including at yourself), recognize familiar patterns, and leave with tools that make conversations easier, clearer, and more productive—especially when emotions are running high.