SOAR Consulting Group is a national fire service consulting and technology firm founded on more than three decades of operational, administrative, and analytical fire service experience.
SOAR Consulting Group was established on a straightforward premise: fire departments deserve consulting partners and technology solutions developed by people who have actually done the work — who have responded to the same calls, managed the same complexities, and navigated the same organizational challenges as the clients they serve.
Our work spans three interconnected domains: strategic consulting that helps fire departments understand and reduce community risk; technology products that put actionable intelligence in the hands of responders; and national program leadership that advances the discipline of Community Risk Reduction across the fire service.
The common thread is clarity — producing actionable insight from complex data, and delivering it in forms that drive real decisions.
SOAR Consulting Group's principal serves as Executive Director of the Vision 20/20 Project — a federally grant-funded national Community Risk Reduction initiative operating under the Institution of Fire Engineers, USA Branch.
Vision 20/20 is the fire service's leading national program for advancing data-driven, systematic CRR practice. The project develops the frameworks, tools, training resources, and research infrastructure that fire departments across the country rely on to build effective community risk reduction programs.
This affiliation provides SOAR clients with direct access to the most current national CRR frameworks, research, and best practices — and positions SOAR-produced CRA documents within the most credible and widely recognized standards framework in the field.
Visit Vision20/20Project.orgSOAR Consulting Group's work is grounded in genuine fire service experience — not adapted from adjacent fields or developed at a distance from the realities of emergency operations.
Career progression from firefighter through Fire Chief, including service as Assistant Fire Chief and Fire Marshal — providing perspective across the full organizational spectrum of the fire service.
Extensive fire investigation and fire marshal background informs our approach to hazard identification, built environment analysis, and the connection between enforcement, education, and risk reduction outcomes.
Deep expertise in NFIRS and NERIS data systems, fire incident analysis methodology, and the application of geospatial tools to risk visualization — the technical foundation of every CRA we produce.
Extensive experience with FEMA AFG and Fire Prevention & Safety grant programs — from application development through compliance and reporting. Our CRA deliverables are structured to support grant applications directly.
Developed and delivered the Community Risk Intelligence geospatial training program in partnership with Esri, training more than 400 fire service leaders across 12 states in GIS-based risk analysis techniques.
Developer of FDBeacon and PHCLink — purpose-built technology platforms designed specifically to address operational intelligence gaps in the fire and emergency medical services environment.