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Incident Management Team

Kenneth Wolf PhD.

Dr. Kenneth L. Wolf consults on Threat Management, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and Crisis Response Strategies. He is a fully licensed clinical psychologist and is the Vice President of the Incident Management Team operating worldwide.

Dr. Wolf assisted US Army Infantry Units at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills Land Fill site after the World Trade Center Terrorist attack and is training mass casualty crisis recovery teams for two Army military commands, the Detroit Police and Fire Departments, and private sector clients. He has been a Violence Management and Crisis Response Consultant to the United States Postal Service and assisted with site management and critical incident debriefing logistics following the mass shootings at the United States Post Office in Royal Oak (1991) and Dearborn, Michigan (1993).  He also assisted with Crisis Management Response after the Northwest air disasters of Flight #255 (1987) and Northwest Flights #299 and #1482 (1990). Dr. Wolf assisted Ryder System and UAW- General Motors after the Oklahoma City Terrorist bombing.

 Dr. Wolf was given the USASOC Medallion for Excellence by Lieutenant General Philip Kensinger, Jr., Commander, for his training on Violence Prevention, Threat Assessment and Crisis Recovery After Mass Casualty Events at Military Installations, on May 7, 2003, conducted at Ft. Bragg Special Operations Command (USASOC), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

 Director of the Department’s EAP and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team. He has conducted CISM activities for police departments including Dearborn, Livonia, Pontiac, Redford, Sterling Heights, Taylor, Royal Oak, Madison Heights, Southfield, Ferndale, Plymouth, Clinton Township, Roseville, Romulus, East Detroit, and Romulus. He has trained police, security, fire and emergency service CISM teams throughout North America and Southeast Asia. He is a member of the Michigan Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and a Certified Trainer of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) in Peer Support Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM).

 Dr. Wolf assisted in writing the National Critical Incident Crisis Programs for UAW-General Motors, UAW-DaimlerChrysler, Pinkerton, and American Natural Resources (ANR) and trained their Crisis Response Team members at their North American facilities, respectively.  He also helped develop the Violence Prevention/Threat Management Programs for Intel and trained their threat assessment teams in North America, the Philippines, Malaysia and Southeast Asia, and for BASF, Pinkerton, Nortel (Northern Telephone) and EATON. 

Dr. Wolf has consulted in litigation strategies regarding potentially violent incidents with law firms including Morgan Lewis & Bachius; Gardner, Carton & Douglas; Dykema Gosset; Dickinson Wright; Kella Thoma; Foster Swift Collins & Smith; Varnum Rittering Schmidt & Howlett and the City of Detroit Law Department. As a consultant for the United States Attorney General’s Office and the United States Marshals Service, Dr. Wolf was qualified as an Expert Witness in Violence Assessment and Post-Traumatic Stress by Chief Federal Judge James C. Turk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

 Dr. Wolf is Co-Director of Violence Prevention and Crisis Management Programs, Michigan Sate University, School of Criminal Justice, where he reaches seminars. He is a disaster consultant for the Detroit affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS television.  Dr. Wolf received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University in 1976.