Instructors

Lisa E. Grossman, Ph.D., ATC, BCB Lisa Grossman is an expert in peak performance training and mental skills development with extensive experience working with military and law enforcement agencies, healthcare providers, combat/wounded veterans, corporate executives, and professional athletes.

In addition to providing training and consulting services through private practice in Jacksonville FL, Dr. Grossman serves as an adjunct faculty member at St. Johns River State College’s Criminal Justice Academy. As an instructor, she teaches FDLE advanced courses in Stress Management and Responding to Veterans to law enforcement officers from around the state as well as oversees the health and wellness curriculum development and instructor certification.

She has served as the Peak Performance Center Director at Wounded Warrior Project’s TRACK Program where she provided mental skills training to wounded veterans transitioning into civilian life while combatting PTSD, TBI, and other injuries sustained. Over the years, she has offered her knowledge and expertise in biofeedback training to develop educational and training protocols for the US Army’s Center for Enhanced Performance as well as for a biofeedback company where she is currently serving as the Clinical Program Director. Lisa Grossman was awarded a Doctoral Degree in Educational Psychology from Florida State University where she specialized in Performance Psychology, is a Board Certified Athletic Trainer with the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, and is Board Certified in Biofeedback by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance.

Dr. Grossman’s work targets the core of self-awareness and self-regulation, helping each client develop and enhance themselves in order to perform optimally in any environment, despite any challenges they may face.

Luis was born in Colombia South America, and at the age of 13 immigrated to the U.S. Luis and his family settled in Lancaster Pennsylvania where he graduated from High School. After graduation Luis joined the U.S. Air Force where he completed a 4 year tour of duty.

In 1987, Luis joined the Pennsylvania State Police where he worked as a Patrol Officer, Drug Interdiction Officer, Undercover Officer, and intelligence Officer. In 2006 Luis became a Spanish for Law Enforcement Instructor after completing the Instructor training provided by "Partners In Training Consultants" under the direction of Jose Alentado. Luis taught Spanish for Law enforcement classes at the Pennsylvania State Police Academy, and the Pennsylvania South East Training Center.

Luis retired from the Pennsylvania State Police in 2008 after 21 years of service and in 2009 Joined P.I.T where he begun teaching Spanish for Law Enforcement classes throughout the U.S. At present Luis is still teaching for "Alentado Training Consultants" formerly P.I.T.C, and also works for the Yuba City School District in Yuba City, California as an interpreter. 

Mark Kollar currently serves as the special agent-in-charge for a state criminal investigative agency. In this capacity, he oversees the use-of-force investigations conducted by bureau investigators statewide, in addition to all of the units within the Technical Investigations Division. Kollar previously led the Major Crimes Division, Special Investigations Unit, for one-quarter of the state. The special agents he supervised conduct high-profile criminal investigations, including those centered on officer-involved shootings, homicides, serial crimes, public official corruption, sexual assaults and large-scale financial crimes.

During a law enforcement career that has spanned nearly three decades, Kollar has

served in multiple capacities, including stints in patrol, narcotics, crime scene and the

detective bureau as well as various supervisory roles. Kollar also formed his agency’s Major Case Response Team. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy’s 285^th session in Quantico, Virginia.

Kollar has an associate degree from Hocking College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Ohio University. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree from the University of Virginia. Additionally, he is an author who has written several books and is a regular contributor to Police1 and other law enforcement publications. Most recently, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office published his textbook, Best Practices for Investigating an Officer-Involved Critical Incident. He also serves as a national instructor for the Public Agency Training Council, primarily focusing on officer-involved shooting and use-of-force investigative courses.

The Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission has awarded Mark the designations of “Master Criminal Investigator” and “Master Evidence Technician” based upon the successful completion of specialized courses of study in those areas. Additionally, he received multiple commendations and honors for the cases he has been involved with, including the Ohio Attorney General’s Distinguished Law Enforcement Group Achievement Award on multiple occasions. He has lectured extensively to audiences from eight countries in the areas of officer-involved shooting and homicide investigation and public corruption. To-date, Kollar has instructed more than 1000 law enforcement investigators on the methodology for investigating police use-of-force incidents.

Mark is married with two adult daughters. He is a licensed private airplane pilot and enjoys alpine mountaineering, running, skiing, and woodworking (primarily making fountain pens).

The Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission has awarded Mark the designations of “Master Criminal Investigator” and “Master Evidence Technician” based upon the successful completion of specialized courses of study in those areas. He has additionally received multiple commendations and honors for the cases he has been involved with, including the Ohio Attorney General’s Distinguished Law Enforcement Group Achievement Award on multiple occasions. He has lectured extensively to audiences from 8 countries in the areas of officer-involved shooting and homicide investigation, public corruption, and other topics such as “Management of Multi-Fatality Crimes Scenes” during a FBI National Academy Associates retrainer.  

Mark is married with two daughters, both currently in college. He is a licensed private airplane pilot and enjoys alpine mountaineering, running, skiing, and woodworking (primarily making fountain pens). In addition to his primary career, he also owns two small businesses and is in the process of completing his third book.

Melissa Maranville is the Founder/CEO of DeVille and Associates, LLC, Forensic Investigator, Consultant, Nationally Certified LEO Instructor, Global Keynote Speaker/Trainer, Expert Panelist, International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST), Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, Blockchain Forensics Certified, and Certified Network Securities Expert.

Melissa's dedicated to building bridges and closing gaps in policing and technology by training on complex topics of investigations such as cryptocurrency and dark web, social media and OSINT, AI/Bots, linkage analysis software, deviance and predator behavior, sex crimes, sextortion, human trafficking, and CSAM investigations.

Melissa has over 30 years of experience in criminal justice. She began her career as a booking and intake officer cross-trained in crime scene investigations at Knox County Sheriff's Department, where she earned a letter of commendation for intelligence work on an absconded sex offender and a 15-year Criminology Professor. Melissa assisted in training and educating the FBI's Evidence Response Team in crime scene collection of human remains at the "Body Farm." She has also developed and delivered mass fatalities and counter-terrorism education at the Department of Homeland Security training division. She is also an expert speaker at conferences and on panels such as the World Anti-Counterfeiting Week held in Washington, D.C., on cryptocurrency and the dark web. Melissa developed and presented training content for the International IP Crime Investigator's College (IIPCIC), a UL and INTERPOL initiative, on "The Future of the Criminal Mind: Cryptocurrency and the Dark Web," and a separate conference on "Illicit Activity within the Free Trade Zones."

Melissa's education includes a bachelor's degree in Sociology/Criminology and a master's in criminology/public safety management from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. While in graduate school, she earned the privilege to study under Dr. Bill Bass, "the Body Farm," learning time-since-death at UTK's Forensic Anthropological Research Facility. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in cognitive psychology focusing on law enforcement officers' perspectives on the sex offender registry at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. Her dissertation topic is "A Case Study of Ineffective Legislation: Moral Panic and the Sex Offender Registry." When she concludes her Ph.D., she hopes to influence new sex offender legislation in monitoring registered and non-registered sex offenders, thus assisting law enforcement in tracing and tracking sex offenders. Melissa is the recipient of many honors and awards.

Michael Halbleib is currently a Detective with the Bardstown Police Department Narcotics Unit.  Michael began his career with the Louisville Police Department in 1992.  He was soon promoted to Detective with the Metro Narcotics Major Case Unit.  He investigated numerous major cases of narcotic trafficking organizations and assisted in the prosecution and conviction of several criminal syndicates / conspiracies.  Michael was awarded the Louisville Police Officer of the Year in 2000 while in the major case narcotics unit.   He was a Field Training Officer and spent 5 years with the Homicide Unit and SWAT.  Michael has been teaching in the field of narcotics for the community, police in-service classes and recruit classes for 16 years.

Michael was also awarded the Executive Merit Award, the Jefferson County Judge Executive’s Merit Award and nominated for the 2009 & 2010 Bluecoat’s Officer of the Year.  Currently Michael is a narcotic detective that focuses on mid-level and major case cartel investigations.  He has also been a certified police instructor with the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council for 24 years and is an expert witness for the Jefferson and Bullitt County Commonwealth Attorney’s Offices.

Michael was also awarded the Executive Merit Award, the Jefferson County Judge Executive’s Merit Award and nominated for the 2009 & 2010 Bluecoat’s Officer of the Year. Currently Michael is a Lt Colonel and manages a narcotics unit that focuses on mid level and major case cartel investigations. He is also a certified police instructor with the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and an expert witness for the Jefferson and Bullitt County Commonwealth Attorney’s Offices.

My name is Michael Heisinger, I started my career in Law Enforcement with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana.  I worked with the department for 15 years holding the positions of Deputy, Narcotics Detective, Motorcycle Officer, FTO and SWAT. During my time with this department, I was able to enjoy teaching the reserve program academy as well as instructing several different disciplines within the SWAT program. At 15 years, I retired from the department and gained employment with the University of Indianapolis Police Department where I was a Detective, SWAT Team Leader and FTO Coordinator. While with the University I assisted in the Cadet Academy as an Adjunct Professor with the Criminal Justice Department instructing the CJ students in Law Enforcement. I then received the opportunity to come to my hometown Alamogordo, NM to work at the same department my dad worked at, and where I grew. I worked at this department for two years as a patrol Officer and SWAT Team Leader before accepting the position of Chief of Police for the Village of Tularosa, NM. During my time with the Village of Tularosa I developed the FTO program due to the department not having one. I enjoyed my time as the Chief of Police with the department and have now retired completely from Law Enforcement. I have enjoyed my time in Law Enforcement and am now enjoying teaching across the country.

Michael T. Morrison is the Director and Founder of MTM Enterprises, an organization dedicated to building communication between local law enforcement and the communities they serve.

Morrison began his career in law enforcement in 1987 at Essex County College as police officer, and in 1988 worked for the N.J. Transit Police in Penn Station Newark until 1990.  In 1990 he was hired as the second African American police officer in the history of the Maplewood, New Jersey township.

Through hard work and dedication creating programs to improve fractured relationships within the community in 1999 Morrison became the first African American detective in Maplewood, NJ and as a youth aid detective was assigned to Columbia High School as the District’s first school resource officer.

In this role he realized the disenfranchised and marginalized students in the high school needed intervention to ensure academic success and graduation, and in 2002 he developed the South Orange Maplewood Mentor Program, a 501c (3) organization dedicated to providing mentors for at-risk youth.  Over 200 students participated with a graduation success rate of 98%.

In 2005 Morrison became the first African American promoted to the supervisory position of Sergeant in the Maplewood, NJ township Police Department. In response to a major incident between local police officers and a group of at-risk youth in the community in 2016, Morrison created the inaugural Community Policing Program to repair and improve the relationship between the police and the community, called Officer Mike’s Open Gym.

For Officer Mike’s Open Gym, Morrison recruited over 30 police officers to partner with teachers, preachers and at-risk students after school daily, for basketball, boxing, jump rope, and dialogue to build understanding, trust and relationships.   And, because physical activity and building relationships can work up an appetite, he recruited local restaurants to generously provide food and refreshments.  This program was adopted by the police department and is now a part of their community policing division.

As a consultant for police departments on community policing, Morrison is proficient in evaluating and identifying causes of breaches in community trust and assisting in the design of restorative programs with quantitative and qualitative results.

In 2018 Morrison was recruited to serve on the Newark Anti-Violence Committee (NAVC) Advisory Board. NAVC is committed to supporting victims of violent crimes in Newark, NJ.

Morrison is the recipient of the “Beloved Community” Award from South Orange, NJ, the NAACP of the Oranges and Maplewood, NJ., and they named him “warrior for youth".

A graduate of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Ministry and Community Leadership, Morrison was ordained as a reverend in January 2021.  He serves as Assistant Pastor at First Baptist Church of South Orange, NJ.

Morrison is the author of “Black Cop” the story of one officer’s struggle to stay committed to his community while fighting systemic racism in the police department.  Morrison sold the rights to his book to Blanchard House of London, and it was developed into an 8-episode podcast “Black and Blue” due out in the fall of 2023.

Lieutenant Michael Rodriguez has served with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department (LVMPD) since 2008. Throughout his tenure, he has held various
leadership roles and contributed significantly to the department's progressive approach
to urban policing.

Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Lt. Rodriguez’ educational background includes two
bachelor's degrees from Michigan State University, and a master's degree from the
University of San Diego.

Lt. Rodriguez’ journey in law enforcement parallels the dynamic nature of Las Vegas
itself. Beginning as a patrol officer and later becoming a field training officer, he gained
invaluable experience in the fundamentals of policing and conducting preliminary
investigations. Transitioning into the role of a Public Information Officer, Lt. Rodriguez
was deeply involved in LVMPD’s pioneering efforts to ensure transparency in
communicating with the public following incidents involving officers’ use of deadly force.

As a first-line supervisor, Rodriguez led patrol squads in some of the valley's most
challenging, crime-ridden areas, mentored field training officers and trainees, and
supervised investigative squads. Additionally, he served on LVMPD's Use of Force
Tactical Review Board as a peer sergeant, contributing insights and expertise.

Now, as a lieutenant, Rodriguez oversees a patrol shift at a station of nearly 200 officers
within a geographical area that responds to over 90,000 calls for service annually. His
extensive firsthand experience within a large police agency has provided him with a
deep understanding of the challenges and controversies facing modern policing. As
such, Lt. Rodriguez is well-equipped to offer valuable insights to organizations
navigating the complexities of the American law enforcement model.

Since 2008, Lieutenant Michael Rodriguez has been an integral part of the Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), holding various leadership roles and
contributing significantly to its progressive urban policing approach. Originally from Ann
Arbor, Michigan, Lt. Rodriguez holds two bachelor's degrees from Michigan State
University and a master's degree from the University of San Diego.

His law enforcement journey mirrors Las Vegas's dynamic nature, starting as a patrol
officer and progressing to roles like field training officer and Public Information Officer.
As a first-line supervisor, he led patrols in high-crime areas, mentored officers,
supervised investigations, and served on LVMPD's Use of Force Tactical Review Board.

Currently a lieutenant, Rodriguez oversees a patrol shift at a station of nearly 200
officers handling over 90,000 calls annually. His extensive experience equips him to
offer valuable insights into modern policing challenges, making him an asset to
organizations navigating the complexities of American law enforcement.

Mike Ruggiero was in law enforcement for 35 years and worked for the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orlando, Florida from 1991-2022. He has over 25 years of experience investigating major crimes, such as: narcotics, sex crimes, internal investigations, robbery, and homicide. Sergeant Ruggiero has completed numerous hours of training in the fields of graphology, kinesics, and statement analysis. He has provided thousands of hours of advanced training in the fields of investigations, interviewing, and detecting deception through identifying aspects of handwriting, body language, and statement analysis.

Sergeant Ruggiero has been involved in the investigation of several hundred homicides as both an investigator and the sergeant of the Homicide Squad. He was involved in the high-profile investigations of Caylee Anthony and Markeith Lloyd. Mike earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from Columbia College in 2012 and has provided instruction for central Florida Law Enforcement and Corrections Officers, the US Peace Corps, the International Chiefs of Police Association, the Florida Homicide Investigators Association, and various other police departments and security professionals across the US.

In 2022, Mike authored a book, “Uncover the Truth” on body language and statement analysis.  He is a member of the teaching staff at P.A.T.C. (the Public Agency Training Council) and continues to provide training for officers throughout the state of Florida on the topics of Death Investigation, Interview and Interrogation, and Detecting Deception.

Michael A. Tobia, Ed.D is an independent Security Consultant for several large entertainment venues in the New York region. Prior to this position, he was an Associate Research Professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey for the Department of  Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence. The Center conducted extensive research in stadium security for major league sports and entertainment industry including NFL, MLB, and NASCAR. This work is published on the DHS SAFETY Act website and provides venue operators with best practices, performance metrics, and training guidance to include in their security program. The Center is currently researching simple randomization designs to enhance security, and economic benefits and costs of security at stadiums.

In 2008, Dr. Tobia received an appointment to the DHS Office of University Programs to advance research knowledge products, tools, and methods to the first responder community in Federal, State and Local governmental agencies. He remained in this position for nine (9)years.

Dr. Tobia has a distinguished 26-year career at the Port Authority Police Department of  New York and New Jersey retiring at the rank of Full Inspector, Commanding Officer of the Bus Terminal in New York City. During his service at the PAPD, he progressed through several positions of increased scope and responsibility culminating in several key leadership roles that included; Office of Counter-Terrorism unit- specializing in risk assessment, threat analysis and mitigation; Office of Emergency Management(OEM)- conducting preparedness exercises,  drills, coordination; and Training Director of the Police Academy -overseeing recruit, basic supervision, middle management and executive development curricula.

Education includes a Bachelor Degree of Science from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Master Degree in Education, and Doctorate from Seton Hall University, a member Community Policing Institute, Certified Protection Professional (CPP) from the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), and recognized Security expert by the National Football League.

Dr. Tobia is a September 11, 2001 first responder to the World Trade Center and worked for an extended period in the emergency response and recovery efforts at ground zero. He is an accomplished field Commander in Incident Management and emergency operations as well as intelligence sharing, resource coordination, and risk assessment.

Published work includes; “Best Practices in Anti-Terrorism Security for Sporting and Entertainment Venues”, CICCADA Research Team, 2016; “Experimental Designs for Testing Metal Detectors at a Large Sports Stadium” 2015; “Public Safety Crowd Management.”2012 National and Educational Training Division.