Jim Sharp

Jim Sharp, MPCP is the Emergency Management Director for Lincoln County, Missouri. One of fewer than 600 FEMA-certified Master Professional Continuity Practitioners nationwide and a qualified Incident Command System instructor, he also serves on the Gateway Electronic Crimes Task Force, is a member of the Missouri Region “C” Incident Support Team and the Missouri Incident Management System’s Training Subcommittee, and as an Intelligence Liaison Officer with the Missouri Information Analysis Center. A highly sought speaker and trainer, Jim recently conducted his seminar A Killer on Campus – Mitigating the Active Shooter Threat at the 2019 Missouri State Emergency Management Conference and Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks and the Intelligence Cycle at the 2019 Missouri Information Analysis Center Intelligence Liaison Officer Conference. Additionally, Jim has authored more than a dozen articles for such well-respected publications as Homeland Security Today, Emergency Management Magazine, At the Ready Magazine, Disaster Recovery Journal, and School Transportation News.