EP201 | Executive Protection Essentials – Beyond the Basics
EP201 | Executive Protection Essentials – Beyond the Basics
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Event Description
Schedule
Event Description
Get ready to level up your executive protection skills with EP201 – Executive Protection Essentials: Beyond the Basics. Building on the foundation of EP101, this three day advanced training is designed for security professionals who are ready to refine their expertise and elevate their effectiveness in executive protection operations.
EP201 goes deeper into the strategies, techniques, and real world application of protective operations so you can handle high level security details with confidence and precision. Through a mix of classroom instruction, scenario based drills, and practical exercises, you will sharpen your decision making skills under pressure and strengthen your ability to protect principals in dynamic environments.
This is not a beginner course – EP201 is built for professionals with foundational knowledge and experience in executive protection. If you are serious about advancing in the industry and want training that reflects real world expectations, this course is for you.
Schedule
Day 1: ( Tuesday – 2/10 )
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Enhanced Advancement (Advance Work)
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Packing for an Assignment | Supply + Attire checklist
Day 2: ( Wednesday – 2/11 )
9:00 AM – 11:00PM
Appearance and Attire (with faulty info and scenario training)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Realistic Conversations: How to Get Through Sticky Situations | Maintain Your Cover | Eliciting Responses From Others
Overt Versus Covert Executive Protection
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Lunch – *No need to pack a lunch; it’s on us!
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Multi-Point Itineraries
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Mini Driving Drill
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Leap Frogging Details
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4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Wrap Up & Homework
Day 3: ( Thursday – 2/12 )
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Maintaining Timelines & Adjusting Advance Planning (Problem Solving)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Initial Advance Work & Real Life Customer Service Aspects to your Principal: Learning the Client | Client Survey
11:00 AM
Depart for Lunch Event: Dining in Executive Protection
About the Instructor
Garrett Thomas, CCP
Founder and COO, Guardian Protection Force
Garrett is especially proud of his certification as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP). This certification is considered the “Gold Standard” of the Private Security Industry, globally recognized as the standard of excellence for security management professionals and issued by ASIS International.
Garrett holds bachelors in intelligence with a minor in criminal intelligence from the American Military University, an accredited and international recognized institution for Global security studies.
Dale Seago
Director of Intelligence, Guardian Protection Force
Dale Seago has been with Guardian Protection Force for nearly nine years in a variety of roles and is currently its Director of Intelligence. He also is a Dai Shihan or “senior master instructor” in the martial arts of the Bujinkan or “Divine Warrior House” organization based in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He has trained in the Bujinkan for over 40 years and still trains in Japan with senior instructors there.
He became one of the first 20 Americans to be certified as a Bujinkan instructor in 1989 and currently heads the Bujinkan Yojimbo Dojo (“Yojimbo” 用心棒 is an old Japanese word for a bodyguard or protector), which trains weekly in GPF’s headquarters in Rancho Cordova, California.
A former military intelligence officer and civilian executive protection agent, Dale also helps teach GPF’s executive protection agent training courses. In his personal “down time” Dale loves to be out in nature when possible, and to hang out with his girlfriend and his three cats.
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