Jake Wood: Leading Through a Crisis | SALT Talks #148

Jake Wood is the founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization that utilizes the skills of military veterans to deploy disaster response teams to a variety of different humanitarian crises. The US military provides some of the most advanced skill training in the world to its service members. Too often when these veterans leave the military, there are no smart ways to apply those skills. Team Rubicon has recruited over 750K veterans and responded to over 750 communities in crisis. Disaster zones provide a unique opportunity for veterans to use those skills for good around the world. "January 2010, the Haiti earthquake hit. It was the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. Seeing all the chaos and destruction, it really looked familiar to me. I’d just gotten done with two really hard combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan." ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/talks Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.