Greg’s expertise has been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Newsmax, i24, Town & Country, SELF Magazine, Washington Post, Washington Times, Dallas Morning News, AP News, BBC, among others.

Experience is an Understatement

Greg is the author of the best-selling book, "Stay Safe - Security Secrets for Today‘s Dangerous World", and is the host of Investigation Discovery Channel’s police drama, "Body Cam - Behind the Badge". Greg served in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for twenty years before founding Shaffer Security Group. He has served as an Operator on their elite "Hostage Rescue Team" conducting tactical operations across the globe; as well as the Legal Attaché in Budapest, Hungary where he led the FBI’s international mission to defeat national security and criminal threats.

He is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts and authorities on the phenomenon of “active shooter” events and domestic terrorism prevention. His responsibilities have included the security of all major Special Events such as NFL Super Bowl; NBA Finals; NBA All Star Game; MLB World Series and many other high profile events which were considered targets of terrorism.

Today, Greg uses his advanced experience to improve national, corporate, and personal security. With bookings all over the globe, he tailors each speaking engagement to the needs of the event and creates a unique and valuable experience.

Stay Safe

Leading Your People Through Critical Incidents

This fast-paced, engaging presentation offers more than just daily safety tips, the objective is to help you, as a leader, protect your team, your firm, and the people you hold dear. Greg will share leadership techniques on how to mentally and physically prepare your people to survive critical incidents. Greg stresses the body cannot go where the mind has never been, and teaches the audience how to prepare and properly respond to critical incidents.

Survival is NOT a Skillset: it is a Mindset. In Greg’s best-selling book, Stay Safe: Security Secrets for Today’s Dangerous World, his life saving philosophy is: “To move is to live…to freeze is to die”… which will you choose?

Break-0ut Sessions

Survival for Active Shooter Events

After this keynote, Greg can also be booked to conduct “Break Out” sessions where he delves into specifics on how to survive critical incidents and acts of violence. In these break-out sessions he is able to address questions directly from those in attendance while sharing the essential tools needed for becoming personally responsible for the security and safety of yourself and your loved ones. In this fast paced, engaging, life-saving, break-out session, those in attendance will understand and accept the fact “Evil Exists” and how to best respond in any critical incident, to include Active Shooter Events. He will discuss the survival mindset, situational awareness, pre-incident indicators to violence, improvised weapons, and much more. They will come to understand that “Survival in any Critical Incident is based on your Mindset, not your Skill Set”.

As the author of the best-selling safety book, Stay Safe; Security Secrets for Today’s Dangerous World, Greg provides vital tips on how to recognize and survive crisis situations when minutes matter.