About Okla Risk Advisors
Okla Risk Advisors is the operating brand of Choctaw Strategies, LLC, a Native American owned professional services firm headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, with an office in Wister, Oklahoma, inside the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma reservation. The firm works on both sides of the disaster funding equation: the federal grant and the insurance settlement.
What the firm does
Five practice areas run under one accountable roof: hazard mitigation and resilience planning, disaster recovery and FEMA Public Assistance, claims services, dispute resolution, and professional services and staffing, all contracted through Choctaw Strategies, LLC. They connect. A mitigation plan determines what funding a nation can reach after the next declaration. A Public Assistance recovery has to be reconciled against the insurance settlement on the same buildings. An insurance dispute over those buildings can end up in appraisal or in a deposition. Most firms cover one of those and refer the rest out.
Our standard
The firm was founded on a plain conviction: professional work deserves experienced people, not assembly line handling. Engagements are shaped around the client's situation rather than forced into a template, and the person who scopes the work is the person who owns it.
The firm is a consultancy, not an advocacy shop. Its value is independent analysis, and that shows up as defensible documentation, candid counsel, and conclusions that hold under audit, appraisal, or examination no matter who retained it.
The founder
Okla Risk Advisors began with a discovery. During the pandemic, at his father's funeral, founder Chris Chambers learned of his Choctaw ancestry. What followed was deliberate: enrollment as a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma, and a firm built to serve Indian Country with the same discipline he had spent 25 years applying to the largest catastrophe losses in the insurance industry.
That combination is uncommon. Most disaster recovery consultants have never adjusted an insurance claim. Most catastrophe adjusters have never written a project worksheet or a mitigation plan, and have never worked inside the sovereignty questions that shape everything in Indian Country. Chris built the firm at exactly that intersection: an Executive General Adjuster who led slab teams after Hurricane Katrina and managed commercial losses up to $85 million through the London market, now applying that judgment to help tribal nations, governments, and organizations plan for and recover from disaster.
Delivery capacity
The firm deploys through an established network of licensed adjusters, inspectors, and disaster recovery specialists, scaled to each engagement, from a single expert assignment to multi inspector catastrophe deployments. Quality control runs through the firm's senior leadership on every deployment.
Native American owned
Choctaw Strategies, LLC is wholly owned by an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and qualifies as an Indian Economic Enterprise eligible under the Buy Indian Act, with an SBA 8(a) application in process. The firm keeps an office in Wister, Oklahoma, inside the Choctaw Nation reservation, and pursues federal, state, and tribal work where that standing and its technical capability align. See tribal disaster recovery and government contracting.
Firm structure
Okla Risk Advisors is a registered DBA of Choctaw Strategies, LLC. Contracts, registrations, and socioeconomic status are held at the Choctaw Strategies level. Learn more at choctawstrategies.com.
Certifications and training
The credentials behind every engagement, held by the firm's principal. Certificates of completion, a current license list, and a curriculum vitae are furnished on request.
| Course | Title and relevance |
|---|---|
| IS-318.b | Mitigation Planning for Local and Tribal CommunitiesThe core FEMA course on developing and updating mitigation plans to 44 CFR 201.6 and 201.7. This is the credential that maps directly to plan development work. |
| IS-393 | Introduction to Hazard MitigationMitigation concepts, the hazard mitigation assistance programs, and how mitigation fits the disaster lifecycle. |
| Course | Title and relevance |
|---|---|
| IS-100 | Introduction to the Incident Command SystemICS structure, terminology, and roles. Standard prerequisite for deployed personnel. |
| IS-200 | Basic Incident Command System for Initial ResponseICS application on single resource and initial action incidents. |
| IS-700 | An Introduction to the National Incident Management SystemNIMS doctrine, resource management, and command and coordination. Frequently a contract requirement for personnel supporting federal response and recovery. |
| IS-800 | National Response Framework, An IntroductionThe framework that governs how federal, state, tribal, and local response is organized and supported. |
| IS-230 | Fundamentals of Emergency ManagementThe integrated emergency management system and the roles of each level of government. |
| IS-235 | Emergency PlanningThe planning process itself, which underpins mitigation, continuity, and emergency operations plans. |
| Course | Title and relevance |
|---|---|
| EGA | Executive General AdjusterThe senior adjusting designation, signifying authority over the largest and most complex property losses. |
| NFIP | National Flood Insurance Program certification, all four authority levelsRCBAP, commercial, homeowners, and mobile home. Required for Write Your Own carrier flood assignments. |
| IICRC | Water Damage Restoration and Applied Structural DryingRestoration industry certifications supporting scope and causation analysis on water losses. |
| Licensure | Multi state property and casualty adjuster licensureTexas as designated home state, plus Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and others, with nationwide reciprocal deployment. Resident producer license, NPN 5700272. |
| MLS | Master of Legal Studies, Indigenous Peoples Law, University of OklahomaGraduate legal training in federal Indian law and tribal sovereignty. A non attorney degree. |
| OIBA | Oklahoma Indian Bar Association, memberThe Oklahoma bar organization advancing Indian law, open to attorneys, law students, tribal court personnel, and other professionals. |
Certificates of completion, a current license list, and a curriculum vitae are furnished on request. Training listed above is held by the firm's principal, who directs every engagement. Additional FEMA independent study coursework is held beyond the courses listed here.
Work with the firm.
Tribal leadership, contracting officers, primes, carriers, counsel, and self insured entities can reach the firm directly.