About
Our Mission: To develop and deliver training designed to transform behaviors.
Founded in 2007, Training Enhancement Center, (TEC III) offers comprehensive training to public and private organizations across the country. Based on nearly 30 years of public safety and high liability training experience, program content is specifically designed based on the target audience and the needs of the organization.
Survival Mindset
One of TEC III’s featured training seminars, Survival Mindset, is particularly illustrative of the dangers of inattention to potential threats in situations where people tend to be complacent or distracted and offers excellent opportunities to teach specific potentially life-saving behaviors in response to those threats. The course is intended for adults of all ages, including college-bound young adults and teens ages *15 and up. Course content includes self-defense demonstrations and techniques. Its primary focus is on recognition and avoidance of violent encounters.
De-escalation Techniques
"A successful outcome can be measured by your ability to control a situation through verbal skills rather than through use of your hands.”
– Donna Kinsey, founder, TEC III
In circumstances where people are acting aggressively and where fear and anxiety control the narrative, our ability to anticipate, avoid, or de-escalate a situation is more important than ever. Aggressive verbal assaults, threats, intimidation, and unprovoked physical attacks are occurring in public places. Restaurants, airports, and other modes of public transportation are just a few places where an unprovoked assault may occur. This course offers the target audience observation skills, communicative techniques, and de-escalation tactics to help calm a situation and to potentially avoid it before it escalates. Interactive role play scenarios examine both verbal and non-verbal communication tactics that can be applied in a wide range of settings.
Stop the threat…Stop the Bleed
Response to Active Shooter/Active Threat Training – For a split second, think about what you would do if you found yourself in the midst of a crisis situation. The time to think about how you would react is NOT during the crisis.
This course teaches emergency response options in the unlikely event that you find yourself in a fluid situation involving an active shooter or similar threat. Scenario based interactive training exercises demonstrate a variety of conventional and non-conventional personal safety, rescue, and life-saving options. Taught from a “seconds count if you are bleeding out mentality,” the course is designed to help mitigate serious injury or loss of life in advance of first responders’ arrival on the scene.
DONNA KINSEY
Meet Donna Kinsey, a retired Police Major and member of the FBI National Academy Speakers Bureau with more than 30 years of experience in training and program development. TEC III offers experienced high liability training instructors specializing in personal and workplace safety, de-escalation, leadership, and professional development. TEC III has trained thousands of law enforcement professionals, healthcare workers, college students, and business professionals in both public and private organizations.
Major Kinsey earned her Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Leadership at St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida, and Master's Degree in Public Administration at Barry University, graduating summa cum laude from both institutions.
ACCOLADES
Awarded the FBI Women in Law Enforcement Leadership Award.
Three-time recipient of the Administrative Excellence Award.
The first woman in the history of her department to attend the FBI National Academy (session # 222).
Developed and instituted the Department's Law Enforcement Response to Active Shooter protocol.
Published in FBI National Academy magazine "Extraordinary Members," Hispanic Executive, and Risk & Resilience Magazine among others.