EXIGENT
Programs

A Comprehensive Suite of Practitioner-Led Programs.

Training is a substantial part of what Exigent does. The catalog covers the Incident Command System across the I-Series, position-specific training for the full IMT general staff, EOC and ECC fundamentals, crisis management workshops, and the complete leadership curriculum from L-180 through L-381 — supported by bespoke programs built for the operational realities of specific agencies and partner organizations.

What separates Exigent's curriculum is who delivers it. Every Exigent instructor is a qualified practitioner — meaning each holds or has held the position they teach, on real incidents, at scale. Certified is the floor. Qualified is the standard.

The curriculum is grounded in Exigent's proprietary Order to Chaos model — the integration of leadership, human factors, and operational structure that conventional incident management training tends to overlook.

Incident Command System (I-Series)

  • ICS-100 — Introduction
  • ICS-200 — Basic ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
  • ICS-300 — Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents
  • ICS-400 — Advanced ICS for Complex Incidents

All-Hazard ICS Position-Specific

  • Incident Commander
  • Operations Section Chief
  • Planning Section Chief
  • Logistics Section Chief
  • Division & Group Supervisor
  • Strike Team & Task Force Leader

Emergency Operations & Coordination Centres

  • EOC Fundamentals
  • Crisis Management Workshops — modular by topic, delivered as needed

Leadership in High-Risk Environments

  • L-180 — Human Factors in High-Risk Environments
  • L-280 — Emerging Leader (Followership to Leadership)
  • L-380 — Front-Line Leadership (Fireline / Fire Service / Leading Emergency Responders)
  • L-381 — Incident Leadership (5-day immersive simulation)

Custom Programs

Bespoke leadership and crisis management curriculum, built for the operational realities of specific agencies, services, and partner organizations.

Programs delivered through Exigent draw on a body of frameworks developed and refined over more than 35 years of practice — including the Defeat the Beast of Stress framework for performance under pressure, the Know Thyself self-assessment, the 1-3-1 framework for time-constrained decisions, the 80% Rule for high-tempo command, Trust But Verify, Signal-to-Noise prioritization, the DDB Expectations framework, and the Order to Chaos operating system for incident management teams, EOCs, and ECCs.