Matt Lyttle is a director in the National Security Segment at Guidehouse. In this role, he supports federal and commercial clients in strategy, transformation, and communications projects. He currently supports the transformation of public alerting to be more wide-reaching and more equitable.
Before joining Guidehouse, Lyttle was detailed staff to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC), where he developed legislation on disaster resilience and emergency management. In 2021, Lyttle was accepted as a Security Fellow to the Truman National Security Project for his work in community resilience. Between 2013 and 2019, Lyttle held several positions within the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Preparedness Directorate, including as the acting deputy director of individual and community preparedness. In these roles, he led major components of the 2014 National Level Exercise and several state and local exercises linking Private Sector resources to government response activities. He also led FEMA’s Community Emergency Response Team program, youth preparedness activities, and research into preparing historically underserved communities for natural disasters. Lyttle served as FEMA’s representative to the Ex-Officio board of the National Environmental Education Foundation between 2018 and 2020.
Lyttle is a returned Peace Corps volunteer, serving in Nicaragua from 2008 to 2010 as both a health promoter and coordinator of a department-wide emergency action plan. He has continued to build climate resilience in Latin America by introducing community preparedness initiatives to Bolivia, Chile, Honduras, and Mexico in collaboration with their national governments.