Alex Jadrich

Bio

Alex Jadrich is a dedicated servant leader with a unique blend of experience in incident management, security operations, and emergency management. He currently serves as a Senior Emergency Management Specialist for the City and County of Denver within the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management. In this role, Alex leads the city’s Continuity of Government program and supports continuity of operations planning across all city agencies. He also works closely with community partners and businesses to strengthen their continuity capabilities. Additionally, Alex oversees Denver OEM’s 24/7 Duty Officer Program, ensuring emergency management staff are trained, equipped, and ready to respond to emerging incidents at any time.

Education

Alex has a B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York-Brockport and an M.A. in Instructional Design & Technology from the University of Central Florida. He is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) through ASIS International, and serves as a Threat Liaison Officer (TLO) for the State of Colorado.

Professional Background

Before working for the City and County of Denver, Alex worked as the Manager of Public Safety, Security and Emergency Management for Denver Zoo, where he oversaw a wide range of responsibilities related to planning, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts for all human, physical, and animal assets for the 84-acre zoo campus. Before that, he worked with The Walt Disney Company in various resort leadership roles over the years, including being a Resort Duty Manager/Security Operations Manager and working with executive leaders on incident management, guest satisfaction and brand protection. In 2017 he was awarded the honorable Disney Heroes Award, for using lifesaving skills on a guest.

Alex has presented at the ASIS Global Security Exchange conference and the International Foundation of Cultural Property Protection conferences, as well as has been written about in Security Magazine and in the ASIS Security Management Magazine.

Teaching Philosophy

Alex has a passion for ongoing professional development and always seeks to be engaged with trends and situational awareness within the industry. He believes it is critical to instruct, develop and attract folks to the Security Management and Emergency Management fields.
Alex approaches teaching with the same mindset he brings to security/emergency management. That means being understanding, engaged, thoughtful, empathetic, vulnerable, wholehearted, detailed, organized and daring. He expects students will do the same in their learning journey, learning from each other and keeping an open approach to learning and interacting.