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Our team

Our instructors bring more than 50 years of combined international negotiation experience, including over 650 cases of kidnapping, suicide intervention, barricade incidents, hostage situations, extortion, pirate attacks, unlawful detentions, product contamination threats, and cyber extortion.

Professor Adam Dolník, PhD

Global hostage negotiator, university professor, UN consultant and author. Specialist in high-pressure crisis, transactional, and strategic negotiations.

Matt Todd, PhD 

Former hostage and crisis negotiator, member of the National Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit (HCNU) and director of the UK National Police Negotiators Course. Creator of Behavioural Listening™.