Training

Risk Strategies International, LLC offers customized training for management, staff, supervisors and employees on specific issues such as:

• hazard identification and awareness
• investigations
• information security
• counter-espionage
• counter-terrorism
• kidnap and ransom
• transportation security
• foreign travel
• other risk & security issues

Teaching, Training & Lecturing Experience

Principals of Risk Strategies International, LLC have developed security management courses, lecture materials and handouts, and served as adjunct faculty, lecturer and instructor for approximately 10 years for the Institute for Security Management and Administration, Jersey City State College, Jersey City, NJ.

Course attendees have included members of the FBI, US Secret Service, US Postal Inspectors, United Nations Security, senior business executives and managers, security managers and supervisors and others.

Courses included:

• Risk and Threat Assessments
  
• Risk Analysis
  
• Avoiding and Mitigating Risk
  
• Civil & Criminal Investigations
  
• Designing for Security
  
• Fleet and Industrial Safety
  
• Security Management & Administration
  
• Supervisory Techniques
  
• Managing Risk
  
• Civil & Criminal Security Law
  
• Civil Rights
  
• Strategic Planning
  
• Civil Disturbances and Strikes
  
• Information Security
  
• Physical Security
  
• Computer Security
  
• Disaster and Contingency Planning
  
• Electronic Security
  
• Personnel Security
  
• Guard Operations
  
• Budgeting
  
• Presenting Courtroom Testimony
  

Corporate Trainer, Seminar Speaker, Trainer

Joel Edward Gross, a principal at Risk Strategies International, LLC has been a featured guest speaker at many risk, security and safety related conferences including:

• Guest speaker for two years at the "Governor's Pacific Rim Conference", Hawaii, on accident investigation and fraud. Contributor to Private Truck Council of America (PTCA) Driver Training Manual and numerous other manuals.
  
  
• Guest speaker at Kansas State University on fleet safety.
  
  
• Principal guest speaker for seminar conducted by the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security regarding the identification and response to fraud and fraud-related issues.
  
  
• Guest speaker and instructor for international telecommunications giant to its internal audit and MIS audit departments on the "Red Flags of Fraud". Guest speaker at Governor's Pacific Rim Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, on investigations and insurance fraud.
  
  

Course Development & Training Materials

Risk Strategies International, LLC has dveloped course lecture, seminar and presentation materials dealing with the following issues:

• Recognizing and Dealing with the Problem Employee
  
• Violence in the Workplace
  
• Stalking
  
• Espionage and Counter-Espionage
  
• Terrorism
  
• Risk Management Techniques
  
• Risk Analyses, Audits and Evaluations
  
• Report Writing
  
• Accident Investigation
  
• The Red Flags of Fraud
  
• Identifying and Investigating Fraud, Theft and Embezzlement
  
• Designing and Conducting Database Investigations, Public Records
• Research
  
• Insurance Fraud
  
• Designing and Conducting Corporate and Internal Investigations
  
• Protecting Information Assets
  
• Computer Security
  
• Defensive Driving
  
• Supervisory Training
  
• Management Training
  
• Time Management
  
• Computer Security
  
• Defining and Protecting Intellectual Capital
  
• Public Key Infrastructure Security
  
• E-Commerce Security
  
• Downsizing, Restructuring, Ceasing Business Operations
  
• Safety & The Supervisor
  
• Safety Management
  

Publications

Principals of Risk Strategies International, LLC have authored, acted as consultant for, or have been quoted in many industry and risk / security related publications including:

• Quoted in articles "Who do you Trust?" in the December, 2006, issue of CFO Magazine and The Economist - Intelligence Unit regarding information security risks and the Hewlett Packard scandal.
  
  
• Author of February, 1999, information security article published in Risk Management Bulletin, London, England
  
  
• Quoted in November 17, 1998, USA Today article "Business Breeds Shady Strategies" regarding threats to information and intellectual property risks.
  
  
• Assisted investigative reporters, authors and writers on matters relating to domestic and international security, risk management, Russian organized crime and other areas of immediate concern
  
  
• Co-authored 168-page Information Security International Standards, Policies And Procedures, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certification Standards currently in use in Eastern Europe and published in the United States April, 2002, by the National Security Institute, Washington, D.C.
  
  

Professional Training

• Loss Control Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
• Industrial Risk Insurers Fire Safety Course
• Northwestern University Traffic Accident Investigation Course
• Transportation Safety & Accident Investigation Course, U.S. Department of Transportation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• US Navy communications and cryptographic schools
• US Army Language School, Monterey, California
• Numerous management, professional and technical development courses
• Accredited Claims Adjuster Course, State of Florida

Law Enforcement Training

• Basic Police Training, Honors Graduate, New Jersey State Police, Police Training Center, Spring Lake, New Jersey
• Criminal Investigations, NJ State Police, Spring Lake, New Jersey
• Criminal Investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Morristown, New Jersey
• Riot Control/Tactical Operations, NJ State Police, Spring Lake, New Jersey
• Breathalyzer Certification Course, Attorney General, State of New Jersey, New Jersey State Police, Morristown, New Jersey
• Combat Shotgun Course, Bergen County Police Academy, Mahwah, New Jersey
• Narcotics Investigation Course, New Jersey State Police/DEA, Spring Lake, New Jersey
• Hostage Negotiation Seminar, New York City Police Department, Manhattan, New York
• Criminal Law Seminar, New Jersey State Police/Attorney General, Morristown, New Jersey
• Traffic Accident Investigation Course, Northwestern University Traffic Accident Institute, Morristown, New Jersey
• Law Enforcement and Forensic Photography, Eastman Kodak School, Rochester, New York
• Nikon School of Photography

Law Enforcement Instructor

• Police Defensive Tactics & Survival Techniques
• Use of the Police Baton
• Marksman, Pistol, Police Combat Course
• Women's Unarmed Self-Defense Tactics, Street Survival