Lindsay Wright spent years working the front lines as both an emergency room nurse and public health nurse during the height of the pandemic, where staying calm under pressure wasn’t a skill—it was survival. Now, through her company Lindsay Katherine LLC, she’s teaching that same clarity to individuals, groups, companies, teams, truly – anyone who wants to be empowered by preparedness across Massachusetts.
What started as a mission to bring a different lens into into emergency training has grown into a woman-owned business that’s changing how people think about preparedness. Wright doesn’t just teach CPR, First Aid, Stop the Bleed, and crisis leadership protocols from a manual. She draws on her background in emergency care and municipal public health and emergency management leadership to create training that sticks… the kind where muscle memory kicks in when panic wants to take over.
Building Systems From the Ground Up
Before launching her company, Wright made her mark in municipal government, developing from the group up the first in-house public health nursing program and then subsequently serving as the Director of Public Health and Emergency Management for the Town of Abington.
During her tenure in Abington, Lindsay played an active role in strengthening public health and emergency preparedness through hands-on leadership and continuous professional development. She assisted in numerous Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) exercises and attended state and national conferences to ensure the community benefited from the most current and evidence-based best practices. Lindsay successfully secured grant funding, managed municipal budgets and staff, and completed extensive training across emergency management disciplines, including coursework through FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama, and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). She also completed and graduated from the FEMA Emergency Management Institute’s Basic Academy, solidifying her foundation in all-hazards emergency management and interagency coordination. Her work earned her invitations to speak publicly at local and national conferences, and she was also formally recognized by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency as a Massachusetts Professional Emergency Manager, a distinction awarded through MEMA’s professional development and recognition program for emergency management leaders across the state.
Through all her accomplishments and hard work, Lindsay considers her greatest accomplishment to be the relationships she built and the connections she fostered throughout the community. Every interaction has left a lasting impression, influencing her approach to leadership, communication, and service.
Training That Goes Beyond the Textbook
Through emergency preparedness training programs, Wright now serves individuals, groups, companies, teams, truly – anyone looking for more than just training that checks off compliance checkboxes. Her philosophy of “Clarity in Chaos” combines medical response principles with human performance training, teaching people not just what to do, but how to think when everything feels like it’s falling apart.
The approach resonates because it’s grounded in real experience. Wright has worked codes, managed public health crises, and led emergency operations. She knows what it feels like when theory meets reality, and she builds that understanding into every course through hands-on crisis response instruction.
A Vision for the Future
Over the next few years, Wright plans to expand from mobile training into a dedicated center — a space where preparedness education feels approachable, not intimidating. She’s working on instructor certification pathways, youth programs, and partnerships with local agencies to bring a multitude of training opportunities to the community.
The goal isn’t just growth for its own sake. It’s about making readiness accessible to more people, from teachers and coaches to office teams and families who want to feel capable when it counts. To see “Clarity in Chaos.” For Wright, lifesaving skills training is more than procedure, it’s about empowering people to act with confidence, not fear. Because to Wright, who has a rubber duck sitting on her desk and uses as a metaphor when she teaches, “excellence isn’t the absence of chaos, it is the ability to remain composed within it.”
