For more than two decades, Quindlen Krovatin has trained federal law enforcement agents, corporate threat assessment teams, and school security personnel in information elicitation techniques. Using live behavioral simulations wherein he portrays potential threats, disgruntled employees, and students of concern, Quin provides clients with the most realistic subject interview training available within the artificial confines of the classroom environment.
Quin first got involved in the field of threat assessment in 2002 as part of the Safe School Initiative, a landmark partnership between the National Threat Assessment Center of the US Secret Service and the Department of Education in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre. Quin played a student of concern in trainings across the country, working with teachers, administrators, mental health professionals, and local law enforcement from Boston to Houston, Atlanta to Seattle.
After spending four years working as a journalist in Beijing for Newsweek magazine, Quin returned to school violence prevention in 2008 as part of a series of trainings for colleges and universities following the Virginia Tech shooting carried out by Seung-Hui Cho. Over the years, Quin has trained threat assessment teams from the University of North Carolina school system, Emory University, the College of William & Mary, and Colgate University, to name a few.
In 2010, the relationship begun with the Secret Service through the Safe School Initiative led Quin to begin teaching Special Agents and Secret Service Police Officers at the James J. Rowley Training Center. Since then, Quin has taught hundreds of incoming recruits how to interview subjects suffering from specific mental illnesses as part of their Protective Intelligence curriculum so that they can gather the information needed to separate the few who pose threats from the many who make threats.
Training the Secret Service has yielded opportunities to teach agents from other federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the US Marshals, and the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. Quin continues to work with the US Capitol Police, NCIS, and the Secret Service to this day.
A reputation for providing cutting edge interactive training for American law enforcement personnel brought Quin to the attention of the private sector in 2015. In the intervening years, he has collaborated with an array of corporate clients such as BMW, Lockheed Martin, Verisign, and Millipore.
When Quin creates an interactive behavioral simulation for a client, it isn’t just fright wigs and false teeth (though costuming plays an important role in achieving a believable simulation experience). Rather, Quin works with representatives from every client to find out what unique challenges they are encountering in the field so that he can tailor the roles to the unique obstacles clients hope to overcome.
In that regard, Quin provides a bespoke training experience unlike anything available in threat assessment today, drawing on more than 500 hours of psychodrama training from an American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama board-certified Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner.
It is this attention to detail, dedication to craft, and wealth of experience that has made Quin a valued partner of clients across the fields of law enforcement, education, and industry for 24 years and counting. He lives in New York City and speaks fluent Mandarin.