An informed workforce is essential for strong security.
OUR INSTRUCTORS
Our internal instructors and external associate instructors come from a variety of backgrounds, civilian, private industry, international media, military, police and special forces. We have journalists, life coaches, awareness and prevention specialists as instructors. This is the core of the successful learning experience we provide and what enables us to bring a variety of different skill sets and expertise into our workshops and courses.
SECURITY
James Otigbah
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
– Security Awareness Training
– Executive Close Protection
– Conflict Management
John Andrew McVey
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
– Security Awareness Training
– Executive Close Protection
LIFE SKILLS
David Brient
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
– Youth Risk Awareness
– Life Skills
– Conflict Management
Ryan Ulrich
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
– Youth Risk Awareness
– Life Skills
– Addiction Prevention
Alexander H. Bertea
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
– Youth Risk Awareness
– Life Skills
– Conflict Management
– Addiction Prevention
James Otigbah CPP MSyl Fda Protection & Risk Management Specialist
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
- Security Awareness Training
- Executive Close Protection
- Conflict Management
He holds, among other qualifications, the widely recognised CPP certification of ASIS, a degree in Protective Security Management from the University of Buckinghamshire (UK), a Certificate in Terrorism Studies from the University of St. Andrews (UK) and a Certificate in Security Management from the University of Leicester (UK). He has also been elected a Member of IISec; having met their academic and professional requirements.
He has vast experience in the Executive Protection field and has an excellent track record in the security industry, having operated among others in most European countries, in African countries such as Libya, Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Egypt and South Africa; in Yemen and other Arab countries as well as in Mexico, the USA, Hong Kong and Thailand.
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John Andrew McVey Security Consultant
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
- Security Awareness Training
- Executive Close Protection
John has over 35 years operational and strategic experience in security and crisis response. During his military service, John served with the British Army Close Protection Unit (CPU) as a Protection leader and trainer. John was attached to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office on several worldwide assignments as the senior protection officer to Her Majesty’s UK Ambassadors.
The past 13 years on leaving the service, John has extended his experience in the commercial security industry taking up country manager and project manager/ consultancy roles throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa for companies such as Control Risks (Security), BP (Oil and Gas), The Movenpick Group (Hotels & Resorts) and Black and Veatch (Energy).
David Brient, Bsc Life Coach
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
- Lifeskills
- Conflict management
David is passionate about teaching people of different ages and backgrounds about conflict management and the awareness to avoid and manage difficult encounters. With 30 years’ experience in a wide range of martial arts and negotiation tactics, David enjoys the challenge of helping others to learn new skills that may save their lives or prevent serious risks. David’s passion and skills include being a qualified executive and life coach, a senior consultant with Rise Beyond, a qualified structural dynamics facilitator, a martial arts instructor and a lead instructor with Excel Security Solutions AG.
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Ryan Ulrich, MA, MBA, Life Coach
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor:
- Addiction prevention
- Lifeskills
Ryan is a former alcohol, cigarette and drug user who is in long-term recovery from addiction. Ryan works in international schools to share his story of overcoming addiction to help students, teachers and partners to better understand the risks around addiction and empower them to make informed, safe choices around substances. Ryan shares how his struggle with addiction to alcohol, marijuana and nicotine began in high school and resulted in getting expelled from college and nearly losing his life due to the depression and risks associated with drug use. After getting help for addiction, Ryan successfully rebuilt his connection with his family, friends and career going back to school to earn his BA and MA in political science and Chinese and worked in education, communications and health care before launching his business full-time helping students across the world to better understand the risks around drugs and alcohol. Ryan is trained in addiction prevention by the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, one of the leading drug and alcohol treatment organizations in the world.
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Alexander H. Bertea, MLIS Life Coach
Training Material Development
Lead Training Instructor
- Lifeskills
- Conflict management
- Addiction prevention
Alex Bertea is an instructor and security consultant for Excel Security Solutions AG.
A published writer and paraprofessional educator (US), he has experience teaching groups ranging from special-needs adolescents to adult learners, in subjects such as physical education, information-literacy and history. He has also volunteered in numerous drug and alcohol treatment facilities in the US, working with individuals recovering from substance abuse issues in outpatient treatment situations.
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