We help you build your common operating picture for disaster recovery so you have better, faster information sharing to save lives and reduce suffering.
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How will this Benefit you?
Better Faster Decision Making
Organized Faster Support
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What’s Different About Innomergence?
At Innomergence, we speak small town and big government emergency management fluently. We’ve been there at site command. We’ve been there in community emergency operations centres. We’ve been there in the larger government operations centres as well. We’ve been at the highest level strategic planning tables. We know that your biggest challenge is often sharing critical, accurate, and timely information between all the stakeholders and support agencies. And we know that one size doesn’t fit all.
At Innomergence, we’re not too interested in just coming in and doing a job. We’ll probably come if you ask us, but we’d rather come in and help set you up for success. Our success is when your community lead response and recovery organizations are a success and where critical information sharing to save lives is the norm, not the challenge. To us, it’s all about helping you develop capacity so you don’t have to call us next time…unless you really want to.
We know that you are an equal player in Emergency Management, no matter how big or small your community or organization is.
And we know that with good information sharing in place, you can be that equal.
Our Promise
All clients can expect the following
Commitment and Confidentiality
Trust
Operational Experience
Big Picture Thinking
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Steve Newton
Founder & ceo
Since my earliest childhood memories, one of the strongest values that my parents instilled in me was to help others. I remember at an early age walking around the neighbourhood with a wagon full of pumpkins for sale just before Halloween to help a family who had lost their home in a landslide. I think my siblings and I raised about $11 to donate. Fast forward and I find myself recently retired after 30 years serving the public in some form or another of emergency management. Helping others is what I do.
After a thoroughly enjoyable and motivating career in emergency management response and recovery serving the people of British Columbia, and with the full support of my wife Fiona, in May 2018 I retired out of the Provincial Government and started Innomergence Solutions Inc.
The name Innomergence is a hybrid of the words “innovation” and “emergent”. Combining them was Fiona’s idea and it speaks to two of my primary career passions: (1) creative, innovative systems thinking with a future lens; and (2) embracing emerging challenges with enthusiasm. Those who know and/or have worked with me will agree that this pretty much sums up what I’m about.
My career began about 50 pounds ago when I started out on a wildfire initial attack crews. Exciting fun times for sure. Over the years, I progressed through the ranks and gained experience in just about every operational position in the British Columbia Wildfire Service, including Incident Command, Operations and Planning roles on the Provincial Incident Management Teams. (I might have put on a couple of extra pounds over the years as my wildfire career advanced). My final 4 years in the BC Wildfire Service was spent leading the Provincial Aviation Management Section. I worked with some incredible people and learned from the best, many of whom worked for me.
I participated as a field operations expert in some interesting technology projects supported by the Canadian and European Space Agencies. I was also fortunate enough to be the only field operations member of an 8-person team that developed the wildfire program for the State of Sabah in Malaysia, and part of a small team that designed and delivered an extensive wildfire training program to the State of Nuevo Leon in Mexico. (my Spanish is still a bit rusty)
For the last 7 years of my public service career, I worked as a regional manager for Emergency Management BC (EMBC), which is the Province of British Columbia’s primary agency for coordinating all government support to First Nations Communities and Local Governments. When I wasn’t providing daily guidance and expertise to our many friends or sitting as Director in one of our 6 regional operations centres, I was engaged in projects related to the application of enabling technologies to demonstrate that the elusive true common operating picture for emergency management already exists. And just for kicks, over the years I pursued graduate studies in leadership and strategic foresight.
A couple of highlights in my career certainly include being the recipient of the first ever Director’s Award for Mentorship (2006), a peer nominated award in the BC Wildfire Service. More recently, I was a finalist in the Premier’s Award for Excellence (to be awarded fall 2018).
I was a volunteer fire department member for 3 years in a small town before I moved on, and sat on the provincial executive of our national Civil Air Search and Rescue Association for 6 years.
At the end of the day, what really matters to me the most is that I am able to help others to the best of my ability.
At Innomergence, we know that you are an equal player in Emergency Management, no matter how big or small your community or organization is.
And we know that with good information sharing in place, you can be that equal.
Steve Newton
President
Innomergence Solutions
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