CAPTAIN GORDON GRAHAM, J.D. is a 25 year veteran of California Law Enforcement. During his tenure as a police professional, (currently a Captain of the California Highway Patrol) he was awarded his Teaching Credential from California State University, Long Beach. He was later graduated from University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in Safety and Systems Management. Subsequent to this he was graduated from Western State University with a Juris Doctorate. His education as a Risk Manager and experience as a practicing Attorney, coupled with his extensive background in law enforcement, have allowed him to rapidly became recognized as a leading professional speaker with multiple areas of expertise.

Gordon Graham has centered his efforts in providing knowledge to both public and private sector organizations in the area of Organizational and Operational Risk Management, Civil Liability, Professionalism, Ethical Decision Making and related topics. Instead of focusing solely in after incident damage control, he focuses his efforts in the prevention of mistakes through his risk management based training program SROVT (Solid Realistic Ongoing Verifiable Training). He teaches fire chiefs, fire officers and firefighters as well as public and private employees, supervisors, and managers why things generally go wrong, and how to prevent these unfortunate situations from happening. He follows up his prevention efforts with a dynamic presentation on how to recognize the incidents that have a likelihood of ending up in litigation. He concludes his program with a detailed examination on how to prove proper conduct. Additionally, Mr. Graham has developed the CATSINRO approach to the elimination of such incidents prior to occurance a valuable system used by fire departments nationwide. Each of his presentations includes the appropriate written "rules" for the topic covered. These risk management rules allow the informed listener to make immediate, progressive changes in operations to better protect themselves and their organization.

Over the last decade, Mr. Graham has made over 3,000 presentations to various groups including law enforcement, corrections personnel, fraud investigators, fire and rescue service professionals, EMS, other first responders, legal professionals, educators, city, county and district employees, law firms, hospitals and real estate companies along with many other private sector organizations. Since 1990, he consistently received the highest evaluations on P.O.S.T. critiques. In 1995 he received the Governor's Award (sole recipient) for Excellence in Law Enforcement Training from California Governor Pete Wilson. His penetrating wit coupled with his vast knowledge in multiple disciplines provides the enlightened listener with an information packed seminar.

He is available for seminars, conferences, or other programs including incident specific training designed for the specific needs of your organization, whether public or private sector. Contact Mr. Gordon Graham at inquires@GordonGraham.com.

Forest Reeder began his fire service career in 1979.  He currently serves as Battalion Chief / Director of Training & Safety with the Pleasantview Fire Protection District and is the Director of Training for Southwest United Fire Districts.  In these capacities, he is responsible for the design, implementation and coordination of in-service training activities as well as a full-service fire training academy program.  

Forest serves as the drillmaster for www.FirefighterCloseCalls.com a website devoted to information sharing and news relating to firefighter safety and survival.  In addition to this weekly drill feature, Forest is the author and a weekly contributor to Fire Engineering Magazines www.fireengineering.com on-line drill feature.  These drills are products designed to assist fire departments in training their members using these basic drill/discussion templates.  To date, over 500 quick drills have been developed and are in use in many departments. 

Forest holds numerous Illinois fire service certifications including Fire Officer 3 and Training Program Manager and has an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Fire Science Technology, a Bachelors Degree in Fire Department Administration and a Masters Degree in Public Safety Administration from Lewis University.