Webinar - Building Stronger Fire Service Teams: Leadership Lessons from Home and Abroad
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Effective team dynamics and leadership are critical to firefighter safety and operational success. This webinar explores how research-based teamwork principles and real-world experience – both in the U.S. and internationally – can strengthen fire service performance.
Kevin Quinn, NVFC past chair and Africa Fire Mission (AFM) instructor, and Jose Ngunjiri, AFM Fire Safety Officer based in Kenya, will share lessons learned from training fire services across Africa, highlighting leadership, communication, and trust in high-risk, resource-limited environments. Amber Lynn Scott from the University of Kentucky will also share initial research on team dynamics and its relevance to volunteer and combination departments.
Participants will also gain insight into how U.S. firefighters can engage in meaningful international training efforts while bringing practical leadership and teamwork lessons back to their home departments.
Nancy Moore
Nancy is the Co-Founder of AFM and in 2022, Nancy transitioned to the role of Executive Director in order to support the growth of AFM into the future. Nancy is a veteran “firefighter wife” and professional social worker. Nancy puts her passions to work through culturally relevant program & curriculum design, organizational growth & development and preparing teams of firefighters to go to Africa to train in topics ranging from fire prevention to active bleeding control.
José Ngunjiri
José is a social change enthusiast, entrepreneur, mobilizer and a fire safety advocate with a wide range of experience in community mobilization based in Nairobi, Kenya. At 4 months old, José was burnt in a house fire that burnt 85% of his face and left hand. José has made fire safety education his life purpose; he's worked professionally in community fire safety advocacy since 2019 and has worked with AFM and other grassroots organizations to develop a number of exciting programs.
Kevin D. Quinn
Chief
Kevin D. Quinn joined the fire service as a volunteer in 1976 with Station #3 of the Union Fire District in Rhode Island and retired as Deputy Chief of the Union Fire District. Chief Quinn continues to respond to fires and alarms as an active volunteer with his original station #3. Chief Quinn holds a Master of Science in counseling and educational psychology and a Master of Science in education. He retired in 2007 from the public education system. Chief Quinn has represented Rhode Island on the NVFC’s Board of Directors for over 36 years, is the immediate past chair, and is currently serving on the Health, Safety, and Training Committee.
Amber Lynn Scott
Amber Lynn Scott (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. Her main research interests are focused on exploring teamwork, trust, and safety within high reliability organizations (HROs) and teams (HRTs).
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