ABOUT · FOUNDER
Jonathan D. Arnburg
M.S., CHEC · Founder & Principal Consultant, Clover Emergency Management
JONATHAN D. ARNBURG
Founder & Principal Consultant
Jonathan has spent more than fifteen years helping complex organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant disruption — across healthcare, federal disaster response, public safety, and municipal emergency management.
He began his career as a first responder and moved into emergency management through advanced study in the discipline, which took him from local response into roles shaping policy and practice at the state and national level. He has held director-level emergency management positions in both healthcare and the public sector, and has managed large-scale responses including hurricanes, active-shooter incidents, and public health emergencies.
Most recently he built and led enterprise resilience, crisis management, business continuity, and preparedness programs for a major integrated health system spanning five hospitals, more than 200 care locations, and over 20,000 employees — work that covered executive crisis readiness, incident command structure, continuity of critical services, and the exercise program that tested all of it.
Before healthcare, he served with FEMA in senior planning and operational roles, including as an Acting Planning Section Chief supporting federally declared disasters. He founded Clover Emergency Management to bring that same operational discipline to organizations that need a preparedness program capable of performing under real conditions — not a binder that satisfies a survey.
15+
YEARS EM & RESILIENCE LEADERSHIP
20,000+
EMPLOYEES IN PROGRAMS LED
200+
HEALTHCARE LOCATIONS COVERED
5
HOSPITALS IN SYSTEM LED
FED · STATE · LOCAL
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
COVID · OAW · MERCY
SELECTED REAL-WORLD RESPONSE
01 / BACKGROUND
Where the experience comes from.
FIRST RESPONSE & LOCAL EM
From the field into the program
Career began in first response, then moved into municipal emergency management — planning, mitigation and coordination for a jurisdiction, where the gap between a written plan and an executable one is impossible to ignore.
FEDERAL DISASTER OPS
FEMA — senior planning and operational roles
Served in senior planning and operational roles supporting federally declared disasters, including as an Acting Planning Section Chief. Multi-agency coordination at scale, under a national incident management framework and real time pressure.
HOSPITAL EM & PUBLIC SAFETY
Director-level emergency management
Director positions across healthcare and public sector organizations, leading response to hurricanes, active-shooter incidents and public health emergencies — and building the training and exercise programs that prepared staff for them.
ENTERPRISE RESILIENCE
Health system enterprise resilience leadership
Built and led enterprise resilience, crisis management, business continuity and preparedness for an integrated health system: five hospitals, 200+ care locations, 20,000+ employees.
CLOVER TODAY
Founder & Principal Consultant
Advisory, program build, assessment, training and exercise work for hospitals, government, corporate, education and community organizations — plus interim emergency management leadership.
02 / CREDENTIALS
Education, certification and service.
EDUCATION
M.S., Emergency Management
Graduate study undertaken after front-line response work, with the specific aim of moving from executing plans to shaping them.
CERTIFICATION
CHEC
Certified Healthcare Emergency Coordinator — the healthcare-specific credential behind the hospital and health system work.
ADVISORY & BOARDS
Serves on several advisory boards
Contributing to emergency management policy and practice beyond any single organization, at regional and national level.
SPEAKING
Conference speaker & instructor
Speaks on healthcare preparedness, executive crisis leadership and building programs that survive contact with a real incident.
03 / PUBLICATIONS
Writing & published work.
Articles and field notes on preparedness, response coordination and organizational resilience.
PROGRAM STRATEGY
What Emergency Management Programs Should Focus on to Ensure Future Success
ASSESSMENT
The Importance of GAP and SWOT Analysis for the Future of Emergency Management
HEALTHCARE
Enhanced Response Coordination Through an Effective Hospital Emergency Operations Center
WORKFORCE RESILIENCE
The Importance of Mental Health Support During Crises in Healthcare
EXECUTIVE
Brand Defense in Disaster Response: The High Stakes of Organizational Preparedness
EDUCATION
The Role of Technology in School Emergency Management
FAITH & COMMUNITY
Training Volunteers for Emergency Situations in Places of Worship
REGULATORY
Accreditation 360: what actually changed for hospital emergency management in 2026
FORTHCOMING
CONTACT
Talk it through with the person who will do the work.
Clover is a practitioner-led practice. The person who assesses your program is the person who has run one.