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Dr. Steve Albrecht, PHR, CPP, BCC - Co-Author of Glen Kraemer - Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP Ticking Bombs Glen Kraemer, a founding and managing partner of the employment Dr. Steve Albrecht is internationally-known for his writing, training, and and education law firm Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, is one of a speaking on workplace and school violence prevention. In 1994, he select group of attorneys nationally with a practice emphasis on co-wrote Ticking Bombs, one of the first books on workplace violence. prevention, assessment and resolution of workplace violence and He interviewed a double workplace murderer for the book. threat management concerns. For over 20 years, Glen has worked with security and medical professionals to deliver “best practices” Jim Cawood, Ph.D - President of Factor One management training programs on this critically important topic, Mr. Cawood is President of Factor One and for over 25 years and has helped establish dozens of corporate and campus violence has specialized in threat assessment, violence risk assessment, prevention teams. He currently serves as U.S. lead counsel to both behavioral analysis, security consulting, and investigations. He holds the J. Crew and Starwood Hotels & Resorts national workplace a Masters Degree in Forensic Psychology and has successfully violence prevention units, and serves in a similar capacity at many assessed and managed over 4000 violence related cases. He has institutions of higher education, including Pomona College. experience in law enforcement, corporate security, and corporate investigations. He has also written extensively on the topic of John Lane - Control Risks violence risk assessment, including a co-authored chapter: Threat John Lane serves as Director, Crisis & Resilience Consulting for Management of Stalking Cases in The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical Control Risks. Based in , John focuses on issues of and Forensic Perspectives, published by Academic Press in 1998. workplace violence within the corporate environment, specializing in He also co-authored a book, Violence Assessment and Intervention: threat assessment, case management, the creation of prevention and The Practitioner’s Handbook, CRC Press 2003 & a 2nd Edition 2009. response programs, and response. He has worked with numerous This combination of training and experience allows him to bring a clients across North America, including some of the most well-known unique perspective to addressing the areas of Ethics, Literacy Across Fortune 500 companies. Compentencies, and Consultation for this session. Wayne Maxey, CCP - Baron Center Inc. Charles Dempsey - Los Angeles Department Wayne Maxey is a licensed Private Investigator and Certified Detective III Charles Dempsey is the Officer-in-Charge of the Case Protection Professional. He is a seasoned threat assessment Assessment Management Program (CAMP), Mental Evaluation Unit professional who has evaluated, investigated and managed hundreds (MEU), Crisis Response Support Section (CRSS) of the Los Angeles of cases of stalking, threats and incidences of workplace violence Police Department. Detective Dempsey has over twenty-seven years during his career in law enforcement, beginning as a police officer of law enforcement experience in varied assignments both with the with the San Diego Police Department. Los Angeles Police Department and the Department of Defense. In 1994, Mr. Maxey joined the San Diego County district attorney’s Detective Dempsey sought to combine his psychiatric nursing office as an investigator, and in 1996, he was assigned as the first experience with his present profession in law enforcement. The investigator to a vertical prosecution unit which addressed the crime assignment to the Crisis Response Support Section has afforded of stalking and criminal threats. This was the first prosecutor’s office him the chance to provide insight from both disciplines to the daily in the country to create such a unit. operations of the CAMP unit and its dealings and management of high risk persons suffering from a mental illness, who are high utilizers of emergency services, and at risk for violent encounters with law enforcement. introduction day speaker bios

Dr. Kris Mohandie - Phychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie is a clinical, police, and forensic psychologist Rachel Solov - Duty District Attorney with over twenty years of experience in the assessment and Rachel Solov has been a deputy district attorney since 1999. She was management of violent behavior. He has worked in field responses assigned to the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division from 2003-2009, and case investigations for local, state, and federal law enforcement where she was the sole prosecutor assigned to prosecute all female- organizations including LAPD’s Threat Management Unit, SWAT/ victim domestic violence stalking cases that occurred in the county Crisis Negotiation Team, and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program. of San Diego. Additionally, she headed San Diego’s Stalking Case His book, School Violence Threat Management came out in 2000 Assessment Team. Ms. Solov has been prosecuting felony cases and is now in its second printing. Dr. Mohandie regularly trains and since 2000. Ms. Solov routinely provides training to prosecutors, consults to schools and universities throughout North America after law enforcement, and advocates in the area of stalking and threat developing a model school violence threat management program. assessment. In March 2007, she and San Diego’s Stalking Unit were featured in a BBC special on stalking entitled Murder in Slow Motion. Russell E. Palarea, Ph.D. - Operational Psychology She has also provided commentary for CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Services, LLC CBS’s The Early Show, as well as local news media outlets. Dr. Russell Palarea is the founder and President of Operational Psychology Services, LLC. Through his company, Dr. Palarea Stephen W. Weston, J.D. - Retired CHP provides investigative consultation, operational training, and program Steve Weston is a 32-year veteran of the Highway development on threat assessment, counterterrorism, and insider Patrol and California State Police. For 15 years, he managed a threat to Fortune 500 companies, corporate and global security firms, specialized unit responsible for the assessment and management local/state/campus law enforcement, and the State Department’s of threats against California state officials and government facilities. Diplomatic Security Service. From 2001-2011, Dr. Palarea served as Concurrently, for 3 years Mr. Weston commanded the CHP’s Anti- a Staff Operational Psychologist with the Naval Criminal Investigative Terrorism Intelligence operations and managed the Department’s Service (NCIS). He has conducted research on stalking, workplace participation in federal and local anti-terrorism task forces. Mr. Weston violence, and assessment of communicated threats with the Los earned his law Degree from Lincoln Law School in Sacramento and Angeles Police Department Threat Management Unit, US Capitol is a member of the California State Bar Association Steve Weston is Police Threat Assessment Section, , and the co-author, (with Frederick S. Calhoun) of four books; Defusing Lincoln Police Department. the Risk to Judicial Officials: The Contemporary Threat Management Process; Contemporary Threat Management: A Practical Guide for Identifying, Assessing, and Managing Individuals of Violent Intent; Threat Assessment and Management Strategies: Identifying Hunters and Howlers; and, most recently, Concepts and Case Studies in Threat Management.