The WB Team is proud to welcome our newest team member, Chris Sonne.
As Vice President of Client Services, Chris Sonne will oversee the entirety of Wakefield Brunswick's client and partner relationships. With a focus on mutual learning between Wakefield Brunswick and client partners, Chris leads with a holistic mindset focused on cultivating long-term connections and maintaining client relationships long after projects are completed.
Chris is an accomplished Emergency Management and Business Continuity professional, known for his program development experience in the public and private sectors. Chris worked for nearly a decade at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, an adult and pediatric Level I Trauma Center in the Chicagoland area. There, he gained clinical experience in the Emergency Department and spent several years working within Clinical Support Operations. Throughout his tenure, this gave him the perspective of what it’s like to be an “end-user” in the emergency management process. Through his work self-developing EMBCP plans, Chris’ career brought him to the private sector where he could expand his impact and delve deeper into his ability to increase the preparedness of healthcare organizations nationwide.
Before joining Wakefield Brunswick, Chris spent more than a decade leading consulting teams in support of local, state, regional, and national healthcare resiliency efforts. Starting at a small consulting firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, Chris was the manager of training and consulting services. The first two years of his private sector consulting career saw Chris leading Emergency Operations plan development and resulted in his recruitment to a larger Denver-based firm with a career shift toward business development and relationship management.
During this time, Chris led the design and development process of numerous exercises on a variety of subjects, ranging from discussion-based to full-scale operations involving healthcare coalitions and community partners. His specialty was large, regional, and statewide exercise engagements that resulted in improved healthcare resiliency across the country. Chris also led his team to create and conduct a number of business continuity plans and business impact analyses specifically focused on healthcare organizations.
“Through my time as an advising partner, I’ve learned that we can learn as much from our clients as clients can learn from us.”
As a leader within Wakefield Brunswick, Chris aims to become a long-term client partner who can foster and sustain long-term resiliency in our client organizations. Rather than simply providing methodology and support, Chris focuses on empowering client teams with the tools to be successful in maturing their programs.
When Chris is away from his work in Emergency Management, you can find him camping and otherwise enjoying the great outdoors of Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, children, and shelter mutt Maxy.
