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John Giduck
John Giduck has a Bachelor's Degree from Penn State and
a law degree from the University of Denver. He also earned a
Master's Degree in International Affairs, specializing in
Russian studies, from the University of Colorado, which
included completion of the Russian Culture and Language
Program at St. Petersburg State University in Russia. He has
traveled extensively throughout Russia and the former Soviet
Union, training with Russia's elite Special Forces units for
more than 10 years. He is certified through the VITYAZ
Special Forces Anti-Terror School to conduct anti-terror
training and operations, and is a certified instructor in
Russian Special Forces hand-to-hand combat.
Mr. Giduck has trained state and federal law
enforcement officers and agents, including DEA, FBI, US
Marshal's Service, and SWAT teams throughout the United
States. He has served as a consultant on various
international and terrorism subjects, as well as a defensive
tactics and Russian Organized Crime instructor, for numerous
federal agencies, and in the FBI National Academy continued
training programs. He currently devotes his professional
time to the Archangel Group, a non-profit agency providing
anti-terrorism consulting and training to U.S. law
enforcement, government and military, part of which includes
Mr. Giduck serving as a Special Forces hand-to-hand combat
and firearms instructor. As well, he holds several black
belts, has been inducted into two international martial arts
halls of fame, and is a former U.S. national weightlifting
champion.
Mr. Giduck maintains membership in the
American Society for Industrial Security, is active in
assisting the Special Operations Association through
Archangel, and is a lifetime executive member of the British
SAS Professional Bodyguard Association. He is a graduate of
the FBI Citizen's Academy and holds the highest level expert
certification in Homeland Security through the American
College of Forensic Examiners International, and is a member
of the Executive Advisory Board of the American College of
Homeland Security. In addition to other published materials
and articles on terrorism, Russian organized crime and close
quarters tactics, he has recently finished his book, Terror
at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy With Lessons for America’s
Schools. Currently, Mr. Giduck is traveling the United
States speaking and training America’s law enforcement and
military on the Beslan School siege.
Col. Thomas Kolditz
Col. Thomas Kolditz is the professor and head of the
department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. A native of New Athens,
Ill., he has served in an array of military tactical command
and technical staff assignments worldwide, commanding troops
through battalion level and as a leadership and human
resources policy analyst in the Pentagon.
Since 2001, Colonel Kolditz has served as an
instructor and mentor to the U.S. Military Academy Sport
Parachute Team. He weaves his personal experiences and
abilities as a soldier, skydiver and scholar into the
first-hand study, analysis and practice of leadership in
dangerous circumstances — in extremis leadership — and how
such leadership can inform the teaching and practice of
leadership across the private, public, and social sectors.
His book, In Extremis Leadership: Leading as if Your Life
Depended on It, was published in 2007. He is listed as a
Thought Leader by the Leader to Leader Institute, and in
2008 was recognized as among the top 42 Leader Developer
Practitioners by Leadership Excellence magazine.
As a professor, he has led academic seminars
or given lectures to students from Babson, Wellesley and
Olin Colleges, Columbia University, Duke University, Yale
University, Peking University, the University of Missouri,
the Beijing International MBA program and Harvard
University’s Center for Public Leadership. A frequently
requested speaker, his audiences have included the World
Business Forum and executive audiences from jetBlue, Goldman
Sachs, Anheuser Busch, Citigroup and EDS.
He holds numerous degrees, including a
bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from
Vanderbilt University, as well a master’s of military arts
and science, a master’s in strategic studies and a master’s
and Ph.D. in social psychology.
Kolditz has published across a diverse array
of academic, military and leadership trade journals and
serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several
academic journals. He is Fellow in the American
Psychological Association and the Interuniversity Seminar on
Armed Forces and Society, and is a member of the Academy of
Management and the Society of Psychologists in Management.
He has also served as a research consultant in major U.S.
Army studies.
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