Webinar: Keys to Safety: 3 Day Safety Summit by Drift Net Securities

About This Summit

The purpose of this 3 day summit is to bring together industry experts in relevant fields such as mental health, school culture and community, violence prevention, and crisis response to address how schools can prepare for the challenges the new semester will bring.

Topics to be discussed: Mental Health, School Community and Culture, Threat Prevention and Intervention, Responding to Violence, District Preparedness, And More!

Meet The Speakers

Mike Walsh

Advisory Commissioner on Charter Schools at California State Board of Education

Mike Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of Beacon Results, an organizational growth and change management firm founded in 2005 that works primarily with school districts and nonprofits to help them develop and align their strategic plans. He has both a B.A. and M.A. degree in Organizational Management and Organizational Leadership, from Ashford University.

Since 2000, Walsh has served as a Leadership Facilitator for several student-based organizations including the California Association of Student Councils, and the National Student Leadership Conference at University of California, Berkeley, an annual Career Exploration Camp for students considering careers in medicine, engineering and communications.

In addition to his work through Beacon, in 2018 he served as the President of the California School Boards Association, a group representing nearly 1,000 California school districts and county offices of education. A 10-year veteran Trustee of the Butte County Office of Education, Walsh was elected to CSBA’s Delegate Assembly in 2010 and elected to the organization’s Board of Directors in 2011. During his time at CSBA, Walsh served ably on numerous committees, including chairing the Legislative Committee and on the Executive Committee as Vice President, President-elect, President, and Immediate Past-President. In January of 2020 he was appointed to serve as an Advisory Commissioner on Charter Schools to the California State Board of Education.

He also served as Executive Director of the Oroville Economic Development Corporation and completed a three-year term as a member of the Butte Community College Foundation Board of Directors. In addition to his service to state school boards, Walsh has also served on major committees of the National School Boards Association and has written and published multiple articles focused on equity and improving outcomes for underserved student groups.
Jim Feldkamp

Former FBI Agent

CDR James L. Feldkamp, USN Ret., is a former FBI Agent, with over 30 years of National security experience. Currently, he is the Lead Consultant on Intelligence & Counterterrorism at Complete Threat Preparedness (CPT), a company comprised of Emergency Management, Public Safety, Self-Defense, Survival, Construction, and Military Special Operations professionals who train and consult individuals and organization, both public and private, on safety, security and protection against natural and man-made hazards.

Feldkamp began his naval career as Naval Flight Officer, flying the EA-6B “Prowler” the navy’s carrier based electronic attack aircraft. He flew 34 combat missions off the USS Midway during operation Desert Storm and has over 300 carrier arrested landings on several aircraft carriers. He then became a Special Agent for the FBI and founding member of the Joint Counter Terrorism Task Force in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2004 he resigned to become a candidate for Oregon’s 4th Congressional seat. From 2007-2012, Feldkamp was recalled to active duty to establish the international outreach office, for the Office of Global Maritime Situational Awareness; coordinating non-classified information-sharing among Federal agencies, foreign governments, and the international shipping industry to increase maritime safety and security.

Feldkamp has an MA in International Affairs from Catholic University and is the author/editor of a university textbook Theory and Politics of Terrorism. He has been an adjunct professor at several universities in the Washington DC area, lecturer, and trainer with expertise in terrorism, international security, Middle East, world history, law enforcement, and military affairs, and has edited numerous books on same from Oxford, Routledge, and Lynne Rienner Publishers. He also has a “side hustle” as a copywrite editor for Reedsy, an online publishing firm from London, UK. He recently returned from a Clipper yacht race around the world.

Feldkamp has lived in Atsugi, Japan; “ran the bulls” in Pamplona, Spain; dove off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia; and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. He is an enrichment speaker on cruise ships, volunteers as a scientific research diver and enjoys his work as a sommel-ain’t (aka sommelier) at a local Virginia vineyard.

Sessions in this Summit

Day 1: Risks and Physical Security
Day 2: Preventative Security
Day 3: The Path to Safety