We Empower Leaders to Recover their Communities
Recovery moves at the speed of Relationship
At Stormwise, we recognize that relationships unlock resources. Our intent is always to foster greater and deeper relationships to speed recovery, increase opportunity and maximize resources. We do this by brokering trust person-to-person while reinforcing these interpersonal relationships with robust process architecture that produces high-trust digital environments and high-fidelity data security. We want our partners to have resilient and sustainable relationships so they can enjoy resilient and sustainable communities.
Our Background
We know disasters from the inside out. Collectively, our team has over 37 years of disaster experience, has deployed to over 60 different affected communities and has lost 4 of their own family homes to disasters. We also all live in one of the most disaster prone states in the country: Louisiana. Our real-world experience with disaster informs our approach to building relationships and designing better resource networks.
Our Mission:
Reduce suffering by turning the chaos of disasters into lasting clarity
Core Values
Empowering Relationships
Relationships are everything in disaster. We broker trust between siloed organizations and mentor our partners in how to build strong and long lasting relationships that help resources flow towards the survivors.
Scalability Through Education
You’ve probably heard it said that you can give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day or you can teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Most organizations working in the disaster space give out fish. We scale to accommodate disaster preparedness and response by teaching local leaders how to fish.
Collective Impact
No one organization is large enough to handle the needs created by modern sized disaster. Rather than fostering competition, we foster collaboration and partnerships that are mutually equitable to leverage all strengths towards the benefit of disaster survivors.
Appropriate Resource Allocation
Humans and digital technologies are both necessary resources in the disaster space but humans are often sent to do a job best done by digital technologies and digital technologies are put in services that are really best preformed by humans. We identify the latest technological innovations and insert them where they are most effective while keeping humans central to the compassionate side of disaster response.
Transformational Leadership
We invest in community leaders. Our services are not transactional, but relational. We empower leaders by identifying their unique skill sets, honing them, and using the challenges of disasters to cultivate a transformation of leadership.
Opening Lines Of Communication
So much can be accomplished in the disaster space by simply sharing facts openly. It is often an extra and unfamiliar step in a leader’s workday, but it reduces redundancy, builds interorganizational bonds and increases effective decision making.
Our Team
Matthew TOPPER
With calming confidence, Topper drives toward a paradigm shift in Disaster Response by strategically building strong relationships between siloed community leaders and national nonprofits so survivors will reap the benefits from the collective impact that results.
Chief Executive Officer
Liz ABDALLA
With an innate affinity for interoperability, Liz combines efficient systems and structures with compassionate interpersonal interaction to design and build high capacity human/computer ecosystems where survivors get more help faster.
Chief Operating Officer
Bobby Autin
With discernment and quiet confidence, Bobby analyzes the available data models and produces hype-busting weather prediction needed for our partners’ resource allocation. His manner is disarming and winsome. His science is sound and reasoned
Meteorologist
Bethany ROBINSON
With a scrupulous eye for detail and a history in disaster recovery, Bethany uses modern research tools to scour the web for emergent trends, patterns and agents in the disaster space and adjacent industries, bringing a rich understanding of context to our work.
Research Specialist