Built by the Architect of the Doctrine.
Author of national doctrine in preparedness and resilience including CPG 101 Version 3.0, the National Continuous Improvement Guide, and other FEMA planning guidance on evacuation planning, supply chain resilience, and resilience functions. Every ALIGN engagement is led by the practitioner who wrote the standards your evaluators apply.
Built by the Architect of the Doctrine.
Sentinel Resilience Partners is led by a practitioner with a proven track record working across national preparedness programs and emergency management functions: someone who began in state emergency operations, worked closely with legislative leaders on impactful policy issues, led national preparedness doctrine at FEMA, and coordinated and executed several aspects of disaster response and recovery operations at the national level. The expertise behind Sentinel is not theoretical. It was built in the field, tested under real conditions, and refined through every level of the preparedness system.
Paul Corgel built his career doing the work: starting in emergency operations, advancing through preparedness program leadership, and ultimately testing that preparation against real-world disaster response at national scale. He began in the state emergency operations center at the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, where hands-on EOC operations gave him an early understanding of what preparedness actually looks like when activation is real, and what happens when it is not. There, he also applied Lean Six Sigma methodology to improve emergency management programs, developing a practitioner's instinct for where operational friction hides.
From that operational foundation, Paul spent more than a decade leading preparedness programs at FEMA, shaping national-level preparedness planning, stakeholder engagement, and policy development. He served as project lead on foundational FEMA guidance publications, including Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 (CPG 101) Version 3.0, the National Continuous Improvement Guide, Planning Considerations: Putting People First, Private-Public Partnerships Guidance and Tools, and other planning guidance documents on resilience functions including evacuation planning and supply chain resilience. These products are now referenced by emergency management practitioners across all fifty states. The National Continuous Improvement Guide in particular establishes the corrective action methodology embedded in ALIGN's Normalize phase, providing the doctrinal foundation for how Sentinel converts exercise findings into permanent program improvements.
That preparedness work was then tested against operational reality through disaster response and recovery roles at FEMA, including service as a Public Information Officer working crisis communications during the initial phases of major disaster responses, and leadership roles in disaster planning and operations, including during the FEMA/HHS COVID-19 response. Those experiences validated what the preparedness programs were built to do, giving Paul a practitioner's understanding of how preparedness truly impacts response, recovery, and resilience, not in the abstract, but at the organizational and community level, when the pressure is real.
His earlier career spans service in the U.S. House of Representatives and in state legislative bodies including the New York State Assembly and Senate, where he developed the stakeholder engagement and policy navigation skills that now inform how Sentinel builds coordination systems for complex organizations. The combination of operations experience, disaster response, doctrine authorship, legislative service, and process improvement is what Sentinel brings to every engagement.
When you hire a large advisory firm, you pay partner-level rates for junior associates who are reading the standards. When you hire Sentinel, you get the practitioner who wrote them. Every interview, every analysis, and every finding comes from the architect of the methodology.
Where the expertise was built.
Author of national doctrine in preparedness and resilience. Project lead on foundational FEMA guidance now used by practitioners across all fifty states, spanning emergency planning methodology, continuous improvement, whole community integration, public-private coordination, evacuation planning, and supply chain resilience. These are the standards your regulatory reviewers, certification auditors, and grant program officers apply when they evaluate your program.
- CPG 101 Version 3.0 and the Six Step Planning Process: FEMA's foundational guide for developing and maintaining emergency operations plans, establishing the planning methodology used across federal, state, local, and private sector organizations
- National Continuous Improvement Guide: Federal guidance establishing the corrective action and after-action review methodology used across government and private sector resilience programs, the doctrinal foundation for ALIGN's Normalize phase and the basis for how Sentinel converts exercise findings into permanent program improvements
- Planning Considerations: Putting People First: National guidance integrating the needs of people with disabilities and access and functional needs into the emergency planning process at every level
- Private-Public Partnerships Guidance and Tools: Frameworks for building and sustaining public-private coordination across preparedness, response, and recovery operations
- Additional planning guidance on resilience functions: Including evacuation planning, supply chain resilience, and other resilience function guidance developed during national preparedness doctrine work at FEMA
Every phase of the preparedness and response cycle, from state-level emergency operations through national disaster response, tested against real conditions across multiple incident types and operating environments.
- New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services: State emergency operations center activation, EOC operations, and Lean Six Sigma program improvement applied to emergency management
- FEMA Headquarters, National Preparedness Division: Program leadership, planning doctrine development, and stakeholder engagement across federal, state, and local partners for more than a decade
- FEMA Disaster Response Operations: Public Information Officer for crisis communications during the initial phases of major federal disaster declarations
- FEMA/HHS COVID-19 National Response: Leadership roles in disaster planning and operations during a complex, multi-agency national response
- U.S. House of Representatives and New York State Legislature: Legislative and policy service developing the stakeholder engagement and policy navigation skills that inform how Sentinel builds coordination systems
Operational and doctrinal fluency across the government and private sector frameworks that govern how organizations prepare, respond, and recover.
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