Critical Incident Leadership and Decision-Making Program - Live-Streamed
On-scene commanders make decisions in the high-threat law enforcement context of hostage rescue, armed barricaded suspects, and armed suicidal individuals that can result in successful or catastrophic outcomes. The OpTac International Critical Incident Leadership and Decision-Making Program is based on Dr. Stuart A. Meyers’ research published in the books, High-Threat Decisions: When It’s a Matter of Life and Death and SWAT Operations and Critical Incidents: Why People Die. Presentations describe the experience and methods of making decisions in these and other high-threat environments. Areas addressed in this program include learning strategies that could better prepare commanders and organizational leaders in the processing of information, while optimizing speed and accuracy in decision-making, along with an analysis of contextual and hierarchy leadership, contemporary command decision-making, and practical applications for incident management. Particular attention is paid to the role of adaptive expertise in decision-making and understanding how mental models of recurring patterns necessary for effective situational assessments are created and subsequently retrieved. This process includes asking strategic questions to obtain actionable intelligence for making sound decisions when information is not readily provided. Additionally, new predictive analytics, high-threat decision-making and critical incident pattern recognition models are presented. The program’s goal is to make communities and law enforcement personnel safer. The cost to attend this special event is $399.00 per person.
Subject Areas:
- Detailed presentation on the complexities of critical incident management
- Learning strategies and the role of experience in decision-making
- Decision-making for extreme events
- Impact of suspect actions
- Leader skills
- Organizational and operational concerns
- Use of force and de-escalation of force as it pertains to decision-making in high-threat situations
- Improved policing and building public trust
- Police accountability
- Interactive discussion of attendee incident response and management concerns
- Critical incident tabletop exercises
- Presentation of the Predictive Analytics High-Threat Decision-Making Model and Pattern Recognition for Critical Incidents Model in which incident data can be applied for an improved understanding of options necessary for making sound decisions
Speaker Details
Dr. Stuart Meyers, Ed.D is the CEO of OpTac International, Inc., and has been the Director of SWAT Operations and Training in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Program Director and Assistant Professor of Public Protection & Safety at Louisiana State University, Eunice. Stuart is the author of the books, High-Threat Decisions: When It’s a Matter of Life and Death, SWAT Operations and Critical Incidents: Why People Die, SWAT Fitness, A Guide To Police Sniping, and Police Sniper Administrative Policy & Training with sales worldwide. He continues developing elite SWAT teams, writing policy and protocols, conducting tactical team evaluations, and teaching a wide range of public safety, criminal justice, homeland security, and emergency management courses throughout the globe. Agencies he has trained include foreign counter-terrorist teams, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Special Forces, and federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel representing Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and the Middle East.
Stuart has a Doctor of Education degree in Adult Learning and Leadership (AEGIS) from Teachers College, Columbia University where he completed his dissertation titled, “Identifying Learning Strategies that Impact Tactical and Incident Command Decision-Making in a High-Threat Situation.” He has a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Harvard University, where he received the Dean’s List for Academic Achievement Award and Dean’s Prize for Outstanding ALM Thesis in the Social Sciences for his extensive research on critical incident management. Stuart has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, received counter-terrorism training at Georgetown University, and chemical and biological terrorism training at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He has taught leadership seminars at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and was an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement at Trinity Washington University. Stuart speaks fluent Spanish and intermediate conversational Arabic.
He was a member of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Department of Police for over 16 years with most of his career in Special Operations. Stuart was initially assigned to the Decentralized SWAT team and then promoted to the elite full-time Centralized SWAT team. He competed in the H&K Invitational Counter-Sniper Team Competition at Fort Meade, Maryland, winning the overall individual championship and the team championship with his partner. In addition, Stuart was the honor graduate and top shooter at both the United States Marine Corps Scout/Sniper Instructor School Enhancement Course, in Quantico, VA, and the Baltimore County Counter-Sniper School, in Ft. Meade, MD. He has participated in over 1,000 high-risk tactical operations and critical incidents throughout his law enforcement career.
Stuart was featured on the Discovery Channel and Sportsman Channel and has provided expert commentary on other television programs to include: the Nancy Grace Show, Larry King Live, O’Reilly Factor, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, MTV News, Tru/Court TV, BBC, and local news networks throughout the country. His extensive executive problem-solving and special operations experience have made him a sought-after special consultant for domestic and foreign governments.
Event Topic
Emergency Management, Law Enforcement, Public SafetyRelevant Audiences
All State and Local Government, All Federal Government, National Guard, Air Force, Coast Guard, Navy, City Government, County Government, Municipalities, State Government, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Government Accountability Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Health, National Security Agency, U.S. Agency of International Development, U.S. Office of Personnel ManagementOther Agency
Office of the President (includes OMB), Other Federal Agencies, Judicial Branch Agencies, Foreign Governments/Agencies
Individual Attendee Registration:
$ 399.00