Randy Spivey, CEO/ Founder of the Center for Personal Protection and Safety

Randy Spivey is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the field of Workplace Violence Prevention and Travel Safety. Since forming the Center for Personal Protection and Safety and Safe Travel Institute, Randy has personally trained over 10,000 individuals in Best Practices related to Workplace Violence Prevention and Travel Safety and has worked directly with many national-level media organizations to include: ABC World News Tonight, CNN, Fox News Live, MSNBC, Associated Press, History Channel, USA Today, and the New York Times.

During his tenure as a Department of Defense executive, Mr. Spivey managed and provided oversight to all Hostage Survival training programs in the Department of Defense from 1997 to 2002 and co-authored multiple hostage-related policy and doctrine documents.

Additionally, Mr. Spivey worked to identify and quantify the total Hostage Survival training requirement for the Department of Defense and subsequently developed a comprehensive plan to train over 1.4 million military personnel for this requirement. Mr. Spivey served on several multi-national panels related to survival training and represented the U.S. at a high-level workshop on how to modify current policies and associated training programs to ensure compatibility among our allies.

Currently, Randy consults with and trains individuals from many Fortune 500 corporations and over 350 colleges and universities across North America.

Mr. Spivey has a Bachelor of Science Degree in International Relations from the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado and a Master of Science Degree in Counseling and Human Resource Development from South Dakota State.