about turn key consulting
Response to incidents in communities, schools, and workplaces has evolved over the last 30+ years. It could be argued that humans have been responding to frightening or potentially traumatic events since their arrival on earth. It’s only in recent years that response to unexpected events has become big business.
There’s nothing wrong with that until the focus shifts from the needs of the impacted to providing a specific type of response to best make a profit. Provocative advertisements, email blasts and social media outreach promoting active shooter training for organizations or clinicians are just examples of the sensationalism that permeates the incident response world. Locations annihilated by a tornado or hurricane need practical assistance, e.g., water, food, place to stay, not someone asking how they feel. That comes later if appropriate or requested. Workplaces need guidance on managing the response and understanding the important role of the workplace in the lives of the employees.
Over the years, there has also developed a need for a global perspective for the work that is done. What might work best in a factory in the US, might not be appropriate in other part of the world. Although rarely talked about, the use of American methods to deal with international events could have a paradoxical effect for not only the individual, but the culture, politics or spiritual beliefs that are different than ours. For this reason, Turn Key Consulting is taking on the task of bringing the conversation to the table, continent by continent and eventually region by region. Response to an incident is a “we” thing. The more that we learn about what works globally, the more informed we will be on how to support each other wherever we are in times of unexpected events.
That’s why we formed Turn Key Consulting, a company structured to help you, the organization, provide a response for your company and your employees in a thoughtful, informative fashion. Utilizing recognized global researchers to inform the response, Turn Key Consulting’s goal is to provide recommendations that will reflect current best practice strategies to manage your unexpected event wherever you are.
about tonya:
Tonya Teal Slawinski, PhD, LCSW, BCD Emerita has a wide range of clinical expertise as well as business acumen. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work with her master’s in Social Work in 1986 and her PhD in 2004. She has worked in clinical settings, but for the last 18 years has primarily focused on incident response and threat of violence services. She owned and managed Supportive Solutions, Inc the largest private woman-owned response firm in the US from 2005 – 2013. Supportive Solutions focused on customized response and recruiting talented consultants with a wide range of skills and an understanding of responding in a workplace environment. Tonya has developed executive programs and functioned as a consultant to organizations globally. She is a published author and trainer for Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
Tonya brings practical applications to an impractical field.