Angela Devlen

Angela is Managing Partner at Wakefield Brunswick, Inc, a Healthcare Management Consulting firm. She has 18 years experience in healthcare, operations, and disaster management with several years leading emergency management & business continuity in Boston-based healthcare systems. Throughout her career she has led program management, strategic planning, grant management and education development in emergency management for over 20 hospitals. She has served as an international healthcare disaster preparedness expert for the Provention Consortium and is currently developing the international BCP for Healthcare curriculum for DRII. Angela has worked with Boston University, UMASS Boston and Cambridge College, on curriculum development, research and instruction in emergency management and business continuity. Angela has held several leadership positions, previously serving on the board of directors of several organizations. She currently serves on the International Benchmarking Advisory Board for BC Management, the Board of Directors for EMPOWER, and she is one of the founding board members of the Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations (BCPWHO). Angela is also the co-founder and current President of Mahila Partnership, a grassroots women's organization committed to issues related to education, community and disaster management and the NGO partner of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at UMASS Boston. Angela is widely published, including as a contributor to the book, "Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor" (Lewis, G. March 2006) and speaks regularly at venues in Canada and the US. In 2005 she was named on the list of the Top 300 Women Leaders in New England. Angela is a passionate advocate for humanitarian, healthcare and women's issues, working on several projects including prevention of violence against women, gender issues in disasters, grassroots education & community development projects. In her spare time you'll often find her capturing the world around her with her camera, climbing mountains and spending time with her family.