Nick Meacher

Author | Emergency Management & Continuity Expert | Infrastructure & Communications Resilience Specialist

Nick Meacher is an emergency management and continuity professional with over 30 years of experience in crisis planning, national-level alerting systems, interoperable communications, and continuity of operations.

He has supported nationwide public warning capabilities, developed real-time situational awareness tools for large-scale events, and built operational frameworks designed to maintain mission continuity under severe disruption.

A graduate of advanced federal emergency management academies and a certified Master Exercise Practitioner and Master Continuity Practitioner, Nick has:

Led emergency operations during major incidents
Managed large-scale logistics operations during statewide emergency responses
Designed and evaluated continuity of operations programs for complex, multi-department organizations
Developed interoperable communications frameworks for regional partners
Supported continuity planning and communications coordination during nationally significant security events.

His professional background informs his writing in The Continuity Chronicles, a techno-thriller series grounded in realistic continuity planning, hybrid warfare concepts, infrastructure vulnerability, and information dominance.

Interview Topics

Nick is available for podcast, radio, and media interviews on:

Preparedness & Civilian Resilience

Why most family emergency plans fail under real-world stress
Intelligence-driven preparedness: thinking like an incident commander
Communications continuity when infrastructure degrades
How cascading failures compound crisis

Hybrid & Information Warfare

What hybrid warfare looks like at the civilian level
Disinformation as a force multiplier during emergencies
Infrastructure vulnerability and second-order effects
The intersection of cyber disruption and physical consequence

Continuity of Operations

How large institutions prepare for worst-case scenarios
What happens behind the scenes during extended emergency activations
Logistics under crisis conditions
Designing exercises that reveal real weaknesses

Writing & Realism in Fiction

Turning real-world emergency management into compelling thrillers
Blending doctrine with narrative tension
Why plausible fiction resonates more deeply with preparedness-minded readers

About The Continuity Chronicles

The Continuity Chronicles explores modern crisis through the lens of realistic emergency management doctrine and infrastructure resilience.

Drawing from decades of operational planning, communications coordination, and continuity development, the series presents scenarios that feel grounded, technically plausible, and strategically layered.

These stories examine:

Information dominance
Cascading infrastructure failure
Institutional blind spots
Civilian response under coordinated pressure

Speaking & Appearances

Nick has designed and conducted discussion-based and operational exercises, developed continuity frameworks, trained emergency management personnel, and built communications capability models to support sustained operations during disruption.

He is available for: