SELF DEFENCE GLOBAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Owner
- Conflict Communication Trainer
- Owner & Global Solutions Director With Personal Defense Industries
Dr Tammy McCracken is owner & global solutions director with Personal Defense Industries, LLC and Founder of 500 Rising in the United States. A Court established expert in Violence Dynamics, she is an active presenter in fields such as Conflict Management and human factors coaching. She is the program director for PDI's northern Virginia training center, Kore Self-Defense & Krav Maga, one of the founding directors with Chiron Training, and a member of the Violence Dynamics international teaching team.
She has authored numerous articles on violence, personal safety, and socio-psychological factors influencing conflict and self-defense. She also serves as an available adjunct consultant to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.
Tammy is a licensed Conflict Communication trainer, an instructor with Chiron Training, and originally certified as a Krav Maga instructor with Eyal Yanilov's Krav Maga Global. Tammy presents internationally, including an invitation to speak at the Airline Pilot's Association Safety & Security Forum in Washington, DC, Women in Federal Law Enforcement conference, & Northrup Grumman's women's health focus and most recently at the Virginia Probation/Parole Officer's Association Conference. She is SME for Silver Eagle Group's Active Shooter Response course, has served as professional consultant to legal counsel on human behavior/violence, and coaches individuals and business in human factors management, including changing the dysfunctional scripts driving conflict. She also supported Krav Maga Global's efforts to forward it's women's training division serving as the international women's division coordinator for 2 years as the program restructured, helping to develop division leads in regions across the globe.
Dr Tammy McCracken is owner & global solutions director with Personal Defense Industries, LLC & Founder of 500Rising. A Court established expert in Violence Dynamics, she is an active presenter in fields such as Conflict Management and human factors coaching. She is the program director for PDI's northern Virginia training center, Kore Self-Defense & Krav Maga, one of the founding directors with Chiron Training, and a member of the Violence Dynamics international teaching team. For the full story click here.
Rory Miller is a writer and teacher living peacefully in the Pacific northwest of the United States. The author of a series of books including "Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence" and a few other things.
He has served for seventeen years in corrections as an officer and sergeant working in maximum security facilities, booking and mental health. Leading a tactical team and teaching subjects ranging from Defensive Tactics and Use of Force to First Aid and Crisis Communications with the Mentally ill.
For fourteen months he was an advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System working in Baghdad and Kurdish Sulaymaniyah. Somewhere in the midst of that he received a BS degree in Psychology; served in the National Guard as a Combat Medic (91A/B); earned college varsities in judo and fencing and received a mokuroku in jujutsu. He has drunk chichu with reformed cannibals and 18-year-old scotch with generals and loves long sword fights on the beach.