Innovation in policy and training solutions on security, use of force, active shooter, workplace violence strategies, and other risk assessment matters

Security consulting is about understanding what works and what is broken. Providing honest and practical advice to guide executive decision-making.

  • policies

  • training

The underlying issues may be out-of-date policies, procedures ignored, checkbox training, or the wrong people in charge. Sometimes it’s a combination.

Whether the needed support involves active shooter concerns, workplace violence, or a whole new set of security policies and procedures, trust Schweit Consulting. Corporate clients include hospital systems, churches, universities, and manufacturers. Government clients include federal agencies relying on Schweit Consulting to evaluate and develop security training for use worldwide.

Speaking/Lectures/Training - Frequent speaker to government, university, and corporate clients. Ms. Schweit and her team are experienced in designing scalable training tailored to your needs, whether online, in person, or digital.

Crisis communications experiences, both as a journalist and a public information officer for the FBI, gives owner Katherine Schweit unique experience managing real-time crisis communications and litigation assistance.

NEW RELEASE:

RUN.HIDE.FIGHT. ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING

Get the FBI and DHS-recommended training from the award-winning author, speaker, advocate, and FBI Special Agent who created and led the FBI’s Active Shooter Program, Katherine Schweit.

This course, ideal for any adult from event operators to parents, offers trauma-informed, practical advice for handling active shooter situations. Empower your community to prioritize safety and security!

About Katherine Schweit

  • Attorney

  • Former FBI Special Agent executive, Cook County prosecutor, journalist, and corporate security training director.

  • Policy and active shooter expert, corporate consultant, author, and university instructor.

Twitter: @KateSchweit

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Focus Areas

  • Corporate consultant guidance to develop new and revised policies on security, workplace violence, active shooter matters, training, use of force, and other high risk areas.

  • Evaluation and creation of security training programs.

  • Speaker/lecturer

  • Crisis communications, reputation management

Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis

I once focused on solutions for law enforcement but now I am laser focused on helping the public see they are the key to ending gun violence in their community. Everyone’s action make a difference. It starts with knowledge.

The Book for You

Stop the Killing offers the first broad perspective into what each of us can do - parents, business owners, law enforcement, religious leaders, security experts - to end the mass shooting crisis plaguing America. Katherine shares her insider look at what we’ve learned, and failed to learn, about protecting ourselves and those we love. The book busts myths, demystifies the language of active shooters, mass killings, threat assessment teams, and provides insight into the latest research and data, offers practical training tips, and takes readers from the latest prevention methods through the final steps of recovery.

We all want less gun violence.

Imagine if we could retool the way we think about guns in America so gun violence didn’t lead every newscast, and all our action heroes weren’t venerated for the violence and vengeance they extract.

 For 200 years, guns in America were primarily viewed as tools for recreation and livestock protection. Why have we lost that? How do we go back to thinking of guns that way?

For our first 200 years, gun owners and non-gun owners alike viewed guns as a dangerous but controllable tool. How did this culture change occur? I think we slid into it by mistake. This isn’t the choice we made like entering a war. This is like the depression or the pandemic. It crept up on us, and perhaps we ignored the warning signs. Whatever the reason, we can’t go back now. I know I can’t after talking to parents whose murdered kids could only be identified through DNA testing.

It begins with learning to talk about it.

 

Predict the unthinkable. Manage the inevitable.