CTI Staff

Craig E. Geis

Co-Founder of California Training Institute, Craig E. Geis is a certified Force Science Analyst, with extensive background in error and risk management. Craig has been an instructor for California POST since 2003 on the subject of Human Factors Threat and Error Management. As a career military pilot, Lt. Col. Geis developed the military's Team Resource Management (TRM) training program to address human error. Numerous civilian and military organizations throughout the world have since adopted his program, and CTI has now adapted the Threat and Error Management Training specifically for the law enforcement community.

Mr. Geis is a former instructor for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Maryland, and the University of San Francisco. He has served as an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, providing instruction in numerous courses on Safety Management and Human Factors. Craig holds an M.A. in Psychology from Austin Peay State University, a B.A. in Management from C.W. Post College in New York, and an MBA in Management from Georgia Southern College.

Kathleen McCarthy

Kathleen McCarthy, is co-founder and managing partner of the California Training Institute. Ms. McCarthy has been administrating and directing the marketing plans for multiple law enforcement training programs throughout the United States and through California POST for the past 15 years. She holds a B.A. from San Francisco State University, has an extensive background in conference facilitation, business administration, and event coordination.

Blair Alexander

Certified Force Science Analyst, Blair Alexander, is currently a Lieutenant with the Oakland CA Police Department, where he has served for 18 years, holding positions as SWAT Tactical Commander and Entry Operator, Patrol Watch Commander and Supervisor, Violence Suppression Unit Commander, Internal Affairs Officer-Involved Shooting Investigator, Field Training Officer, and Departmental Range Master. Blair is also a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, with over 29 years of both active and reserve service. He deployed to Iraq in 2007/08 as a member of the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (Bachelor of Science - 81), Santa Clara University in CA (Masters of Business Administration - 92), and the US Army War College in PA (Masters of Strategic Studies – 05).