03 07 2026 at 09:10
PM Untold #29: Crisis Leadership Unfiltered with Chukri Abourjeily
Podcast
What happens when your project plan, your assumptions and your sense of safety disappear in a single second?
In this episode, Chukri Abourjeily shares the story he has never told publicly: how he led through the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020.
Chukri reveals what leadership looks like when the only KPI left is human life.
In this conversation Chukri explains:
- The first 60 minutes of pure crisis response
- How traditional risk management collapses in Black Swan events
- The shift from managing schedules to managing psychology
- The ethical weight of assessing damaged buildings and facing families who had lost everything
- Why trust, empathy and rapid decision‑making matter more than then any tool we learn in books
This is not a story about project management. It’s a story about responsibility, humanity and leading when the manual no longer applies.
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