Once in a while in this business, if you’re lucky, you land a gig that is just plain fun. Supporting the broad and diverse ambitions of a privately held corporate conglomerate, my team and I were asked to create a new security and investigations company that would feature an elite and highly-trained squad of security officers. Standing out among the many business functions such a task would naturally entail was the unique opportunity we were given to apply our skills at experiential training design. We created a one-of-a-kind field training experience, complete with overnight simulation exercises designed to equip our young learners with the instincts and skills that would keep them, and the public, safe in a variety of potentially high-conflict circumstances. The results were outstanding, and when the new company landed a major contract to secure a huge piece of near-wilderness against would-be adventurers, drug dealers and hooligans, we had every confidence they were up for the job, and as it turned out, they were.

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