Rebecca Hall Gruyter
Rebecca Hall Gruyter is a Global Influencer, #1 International Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author and Compiler, in-demand Publisher, Empowering Radio Show Host (reaching over 1 million listeners on 8 networks), and an Empowerment leader who wants to help you reach more people. She has built multiple platforms to help experts reach more people. These platforms include: Radio, TV, books, magazines, the Speaker Talent Search, and Live Events …Creating a powerful promotional reach of over 10 million!
Andy Young
Dr. Andy Young has been a Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Lubbock Christian University since 1996 and a negotiator and psychological consultant with the Lubbock Police Department’s SWAT team since 2000. He also heads LPD's Victim Services Unit and is the director of the department’s Critical Incident Stress Management Team. He has been on the negotiating team at the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office since 2008, is on the team at the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas Rangers, region 5), and has recently been asked to serve as the psychological consultant on the Amarillo Police Department’s negotiating team. He has written books, mostly stories about his work as a crisis counselor and hostage negotiator at LPD called “Fight or Flight: Negotiating Crisis on the Frontline” and “When Every Word Counts: An Insider’s View of Crisis Negotiations”. He has also published research on the callout experience, personality and decision-making styles of negotiators and SWAT operators. He is the new, third author for the sixth edition of “Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections.” Since 2014 he has spoken internationally at numerous hostage negotiator conferences, as well as other professional and academic conferences on crisis intervention and hostage negotiating.