About Us
History
Kelle Kroll Group [KKG], provides comprehensive strategic services for emergency operations planning, training, and exercises. For over 20 years, KKG has been providing innovative tools and products to a broad range of government, private sector and community-based organizations helping clients find ways to provide better services to both internal and external constituents with collaborative stakeholder engagement. KKG has developed a reputation for developing creative and resourceful solutions and products that increase community resilience and strengthen capabilities for response and recovery.
Kelle Kroll Group has developed many areas of expertise in emergency management including:
- Emergency Operations Center Activation
- Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) and Continuity of Operations Plans (COOP)
- Business Continuity Planning
- Crisis Communications
- Training & Exercises
- After-Action Reports & Improvement Plans
- Field Response & Support
- Community Profiles
- Just-in-Time Training and e-Learning Videos
- Volunteer & Donations Management Plans
- Access & Functional Needs
- Foundations/Philanthropic/Community Based Organizations/COAD
The Team
Our team brings a depth of understanding in many aspects of emergency management and innovative video production. We have worked extensively with a broad range of stakeholders to identify learning outcomes and develop products that meet the needs of a dynamic and changing world in emergency management.
Kelle Kroll
For the past 20 years, Kelle Kroll has worked as a strategic planning consultant for government and community-based organizations, in emergency services. Her areas of expertise include disaster volunteerism, emergency donations management and planning for People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs in a variety of emergency plans. Kelle’s work with State and local governments has resulted in plan models based on collaborative partnerships between public sector and non-governmental organizations. Kelle supports her plans by conducting trainings, workshops and exercises for local, State and National audiences. On many projects, Kelle leads a team of independent consultants with an expertise in these various disciplines.
Additionally, Kelle has a history of developing innovative project models addressing unmet needs for numerous organizations, with a focus on developing solutions to unmet needs with collaborative stakeholder engagement.
Tonya Peters
As a Strategic Consultant in the field of behavior change marketing and communications, Tonya Peters has partnered with Kelle Kroll Remmel since 2008 to produce a myriad of emergency service communications tools. Tonya’s team established an award-winning, recognizable brand for the Santa Clara County Emergency Volunteer Centers that has been replicated in the state of California. In a field of complex content, Tonya has translated critical emergency services information into consumable online training videos for both the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative and the Santa Clara County Office of Emergency Management. She has worked with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Advance Practice Centers for Emergency Preparedness, Medical Reserve Corps and also helped develop online preparedness toolkits for Public Heath Seattle-King County. Tonya has her Master Degree in Public Health and is the Principal of Orange Circle Consulting, a firm dedicated to behavior change outreach campaigns.
Russ Patterson
Russ operates R.E. Patterson and Associates, an Emergency Management consulting firm, dealing in planning and training issues. With 30 years of law enforcement experience, he specialized in Emergency Management for the last 10 years of his career. He currently writes Emergency Operations Plans for local government, private sector, and non-profit agencies throughout the State of California. In addition, he is an adjunct instructor with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) in San Luis Obispo. As an Adjunct instructor, he is part of the Advanced Incident Command System (ICS) staff and the Earthquake course staff, where he acts as a mentor in the courses Planning and Intelligence Section. Also for CSTI, he has designed or is currently designing, courses for federal grant approval; such as Disaster Planning, Managing Sustained Operations, and Action Planning in the EOC.
Sidney Reade
Sidney’s experience, education, and training in emergency services and management began in 1970, starting with the formation of a fire protection district evolving into an active emergency services employee promoted through the ranks, working at every rank, role and capacity over a 35 year span, including 20 years as an officer and 16 years as Fire Chief. Combined with vast experience and constant, consistent relevant education and training, Sidney participated in the coordination and development, promotion and execution of local, regional and statewide programs, resource management, operational readiness, preparedness and response plans. Further, she was proactive in leadership with multi-agency cooperation and coordination, completing several consolidations and formations of joint powers agreements and authorities including ambulance authority and public safety task force. Throughout this time, Sidney served in the Operational Area’s EOC in Command and General Staff positions as needed, as well as in the field statewide through the Statewide mass mutual aid system.
Margee Scott
Margee Scott is a consultant for Kelle Kroll group, providing consulting services to non-profit community-based organizations (CBOs) and local government clients. Working with Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), Margee developed a crosswalk to determine gaps between goals and existing Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). Following this, Margee co-authored the foundation’ss newly developed EOP as well as Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP). Margee’s experience includes co-facilitation of training and exercises, as well as gap analysis and AAR development following functional exercises. Margee developed materials for Emergency Volunteer Center training sessions and tabletop exercises for Santa Clara and Alameda Counties. She recently contributed to the development of Disaster Volunteer Management curriculum for CaliforniaVolunteers, coordinating input from a statewide group of subject matter experts. She has experience in content development and project management for online training modules for the Bay Area Security Initiative (UASI) as well as for Santa Clara County. Margee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Georgetown University.
Kay Vasilyeva
Kay brings over a decade of practical and advisory emergency management experience with local and state governments. Using a consistent whole community approach, Kay specializes in planning strategies inclusive of a full spectrum of social indicators, with equity and inclusion as main drivers of her practice. She provides a full range of emergency planning and support services, and her areas of expertise include program assessment for organizational excellence, comprehensive and function-specific emergency plans, strategic and applied post-disaster recovery planning, and trainings and exercises. Kay’s planning models prioritize stakeholder relationships as an integral part of the culture of preparedness and support decision-making with multiagency and multijurisdictional facilitation and coordination. Previously, Kay served the City and County of San Francisco’s General Services Agency and Department of Emergency Management with multiple years of hands-on activations of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for real-world events. Kay works extensively with Bay Area jurisdictions and has a thorough understanding of local challenges in the broader context of a regional perspective.
