Woman-Owned  ·  Emergency Management & Resilience Consulting

Most emergency plans are built
on the last disaster.
We build for the next one.

Two Lynchpin Road is a woman-owned emergency management and resilience consulting firm. We figure out what the next disaster will demand of your community, whether your organization can actually meet it, and whether your community trusts you enough to engage when it matters. Senior-led. Evidence-based. Built for your situation — not the template.

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20+

Years working inside emergency management — as a responder, a director, and a survivor. Not consulting about it from the outside.

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Integrated frameworks — Foresight, Readiness, and Trust Infrastructure — built around the three questions that determine whether communities recover.

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Return on every $1 invested in federally-funded mitigation. We help you make that investment before the event makes it obvious. — NIBS 2019

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States with active or completed TLR engagements — from the Florida coast to the California wildland interface.

Trusted By
State of California State of Oregon City of San Francisco City of Denver City of Jacksonville City of Sonoma Santa Cruz County State of Kentucky UCSF
The Resilience Operating System

Three questions determine whether communities recover. Most never ask them until it's too late.

TLR is the only consulting team with a systematic methodology to answer all three — before the next event forces the answer.

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Question One

What will this disaster demand?

Not "are we prepared?" That question is too vague to act on.

Foresight challenges the assumptions baked into your current planning — then replaces them with scenario-specific projections across five domains: housing displacement, debris generation, service surge, economic impact, and governance load. Calibrated against actual event outcomes. That gives your technical teams the numbers they need for real resource sizing, infrastructure design, and mitigation priorities. Not what the last disaster asked for. What the next one will.

"Most plans are built on the last disaster. Foresight is built on the next one."
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Question Two

Can your organization meet that demand?

Having a plan is not the same as being ready to execute one.

Our Readiness assessment scores your organization across six domains — governance, planning, operations, finance, communications, and continuous improvement — using 24 indicators. You get a clear baseline, a gap analysis, and a prioritized action plan. Not a checklist. A real picture of where you stand.

"Resources don't recover communities — readiness does."
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Question Three

Will your community engage when it matters?

Even well-funded plans fail when people don't evacuate. When they don't follow guidance. When they don't show up.

Trust Infrastructure is the connective tissue between your institution and the people you serve. We measure it across five domains and 23 indicators — so you know where community trust is fragile before a crisis reveals it. Without it, even fully compliant recovery programs fail when communities don't follow guidance, don't evacuate, or don't access the services meant to reach them.

"Trust is infrastructure. Build it before you need it."
Alicia's Credentials
UC Berkeley — Former Director of Emergency Management City & County of San Francisco Harvard NPLI NYU Gov 2.0 CU Denver NATO Resilience Advisor Women-Owned · FL MBE Certified
Who We Serve

You're responsible for people. A lot of them. We take that seriously.

Our clients are government agencies, public institutions, and organizations that can't afford to find out the hard way their plans don't hold. Every engagement is built from scratch — because your community's risk profile is yours alone.

We work alongside county emergency managers, city leaders, nonprofit executives, and federal program teams. Wherever real people are on the other end of the work.

State Agencies Counties Cities & Municipalities Nonprofits Universities Federal Programs Tribal Nations Private Sector
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Alicia Johnson, founder of Two Lynchpin Road
How We Work

Whether you're a county emergency manager or a prime contractor — we fit cleanly into your process.

TLR operates as a direct prime for government clients and as a high-performance sub or teaming partner for primes who need senior resilience expertise. Either way: no bait-and-switch, no handoff to junior staff.

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Start With a Conversation

Government clients: we talk through where you are, what's keeping you up, and what a win looks like. Primes and teaming partners: we talk through fit, capacity, and how TLR adds value to your pursuit. No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation.

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Scoped for Your Situation

We write proposals built for your specific scope, timeline, and procurement constraints — not a template with your name dropped in. We know how government procurement works, and we know what primes need from a sub to win.

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Delivered. On Time. No Surprises.

We deliver early and stay engaged at every phase. The person who scopes the work is the person who delivers it — or someone from our network held to the same standard. What you see in the proposal is what you get in the field.

Alicia Johnson, CEO of Two Lynchpin Road
City & County of SF · Harvard NPLI · NYU Gov 2.0 · CU Denver · NATO Advisor · FL MBE Certified
The Founder

Alicia Johnson has been on both sides of a disaster. That changes how you do this work.

"I've been the responder and the survivor. I know what it feels like when a plan falls apart — and what it takes to build one that holds."

Alicia has spent 20+ years working inside emergency management — not advising on it from the outside. Former Director of Emergency Management at UC Berkeley. NATO resilience advisor. She built TLR on one principle: the person who wins the work is the one who does it.

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In Their Words

What communities say after working with us.

Real clients. Real outcomes. Real words — unedited.

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The Two Lynchpin Road Team gave Santa Cruz County a creative and engaged plan tailored to our community's needs. This was not another one-size-fits-all plan. It was an annex responsive to our specific hazard and EOC needs. We highly recommend their work.

David Reid
Santa Cruz County
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Alicia's steadfast advice always reminded us not to forget the "who" and the "why." Two Lynchpin Road's work resulted in a higher-quality product and will undoubtedly help Oregonians become more prepared and resilient.

Corey Reynolds
Oregon Be 2 Weeks Ready Program
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Alicia's work ethic supports our objectives FIRST. Her ability to keep stakeholders in mind through every stage of development has been critical to our success. Her "get it done" attitude saved time, energy, and confusion.

Pascal Schuback
Executive Director, Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup
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Excellent job tonight at council. The work you both did to get us to this point is impressive and so critical.

David Guhin
Former City Manager, City of Sonoma
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Two Lynchpin Road's expertise, professionalism, and commitment to excellence played a critical role in supporting KYEM's mission and strengthening our communication capabilities across the Commonwealth. Their leadership was instrumental in creating an environment where both seasoned professionals and those new to public affairs could learn, contribute, and grow. Their contributions have left a lasting mark on Kentucky's public affairs capabilities — and their influence will continue to be felt well beyond the conclusion of the CSEPP program.

David Davis
Public Information Officer, Kentucky Division of Emergency Management

The window before the next disaster
is open right now.
Let's use it well.

Government clients: book a free 30-minute call to talk through your situation. Primes and teaming partners: reach out to explore fit, capacity, and how TLR strengthens your pursuit. No pitch — just an honest conversation about what you're facing.

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