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Ekman Group Trainers
Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper received his doctorate
in Forensic Psychology from the University of British Columbia
where he is currently a Research Associate in Dr. John Yuille’s
Forensic Psychology Research Laboratory.
 He
performed the duties of an Institutional Psychologist and a Community
Corrections Psychologist for six years in various contexts governed
by the Correctional Service of Canada (e.g., maximum and medium
security institutions, parole offices), most recently as a Senior
Psychologist at Matsqui Institution. Such responsibilities included
conducting risk for recidivism assessments for the National Parole
Board, conducting suicide/self-harm assessments, performing crisis
intervention, supervising institutional psychologists, and training
staff (e.g., regarding the anatomy of set ups by inmates; crisis
prevention; suicide awareness).
Dr. Cooper was also the Clinical
Supervisor for the Critical Incident Stress Management Team (CISM),
a member of the Employee Assistance Program, and the chair of
the Mental Health Team. Further, he was a member of various committees
(e.g., research, CISM Senior Management, psychopathy, behavioral
management).
His research and clinical-forensic
expertise includes investigative interviewing, credibility assessment,
forensic assessment, psychopathy, deviant sexual fantasies/behaviors,
and variables associated with eyewitness memory in victims and
offenders of crime and trauma.
Dr. Cooper is currently employed
as a Licensed Psychologist for the Forensic Psychiatric Services
Commission in British Columbia. He is in the process of developing
a private practice specializing on areas related to his research
and clinical-forensic expertise.
Judith Daylen
Judith Daylen received her MA
in cognitive psychology in 1985, and her PhD in clinical psychology
in 1994 from the University of British Columbia.
 She
has wide-ranging training and experience in conducting interviews
and providing credibility assessments and forensic consultation
pertaining to both victims and offenders in criminal and civil
cases.
She has conducted and published
research related to victims' and witnesses' responses to criminal
events, including studies on both children's and adults’
memory.
For eight years, she assessed
federally sentenced female offenders incarcerated in British
Columbia. She also has provided consultation in over 2,000 cases
to lawyers adjudicating individual’s claims for compensation
for psychological injuries suffered as the result of alleged
criminal victimization. She has provided training regarding
credibility assessment, memory functioning, psychological assessment,
the impact of trauma, and victimization abuse dynamics to a
wide range of professionals, including mental health professionals,
police, judges, lawyers, and arbitrators.
.
Currently, in private practice with Dr. John Yuille, she works
as a clinical and consulting psychologist, providing training,
consultation to lawyers, and psychological assessments in civil
litigation and class action lawsuits.
Dr. Daylen lives on one of the
beautiful Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
 Mr.
Ennett is a 34 year law enforcement veteran. He is a retired
Senior Special Agent from the United States Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Mr. Ennett also served as a local
city Police Officer and as an Investigator in the United States
Army. He has extensive experience in conducting and managing
complex criminal investigations.
Mr. Ennett has 14 years experience
as an instructor. He has instructed at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center (FLETC), conducted training for Federal, State
and Local governments, as well as provided training for the
Private Sector. His teaching expertise is in the fields of Interviewing,
Communication and Work Place Violence. Mr. Ennett is also a
trained and experienced Critical Incident Stress Responder.
Mark Frank
Mark Frank received his Ph.D.
in Social Psychology from Cornell University in 1989. He then
did postdoctoral research with Dr. Paul Ekman.
 In
1992 he joined the School of Psychology at the University of
New South Wales in Sydney, and 4 years later joined the Communication
Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
In 2005 he returned to his hometown
by accepting a position in the School of Informatics at the
University of Buffalo. He has published numerous research papers
on facial expressions and interpersonal deception. He has consulted
and trained various law enforcement groups in the USA. He has
also taught through the National Counterintelligence Executive
and the US Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
He has also provided consultation
and training overseas (e.g., British Australian, Canadian, Dutch,
Belgian, and Singaporean authorities). He has also given workshops
the judiciary (e.g., the US Federal Judiciary, US District Court,
Pennsylvania State Trial Judges, New Jersey Judicial College,
New South Wales magistrates, and Belgian Magistrates).
He is recognized as a world leading
expert in the study of facial expressions and in detection of
deception. His work has been the focus of many print, radio,
and television appearances.
Clark Freshman received his B.A.
from Harvard College, his B.A. from University College, Oxford
(where he was a Marshall Scholar), and his J.D. from Stanford
Law School.
 He
clerked for Judge William Norris of the United States Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced litigation with
a major Los Angeles for several years.
He is currently a professor of
law at the University of Miami (where he has taught full-time
since 1995) and becomes a professor of law at University of
California, Hastings College of Law in June, 2007.
He has been an invited speaker
on negotiation at many schools, including Harvard Law School,
Harvard Business School, Yale, and UCLA, and his work has appeared
in law reviews at Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, and elsewhere.
His articles on negotiation have
been reproduced in three major textbooks on negotiation. Based
on work with Paul Ekman, he trains lawyers and negotiators in
emotional awareness and lie detection. He also conducts research
on emotional truthfulness, lie detection and negotiation with
Mike Wheeler, the Harvard Business School Professor and editor
of Negotiation Journal.
Gretchen Fretter
Gretchen Fretter is a graduate
of the 1970 Teachers of Teacher Trainers Program from the University
of Pittsburgh which was in the forefront of the adult learning
methodology. She received her first Master’s degree was
in Teacher Training and Counselor Education/Psychology from
that program. She added that to her California Standard Teaching
Credential which she obtained at UC Berkeley through another
innovative program called the Internship Program in 1966. She
had specialized in teaching French from her childhood years
in France and her college years studying art in Paris.
 Gretchen’s
father, a professor of Physics at Cal and her other mentor,
August Vollmer an early professor of Criminology at Cal, Chief
of Police in Berkeley and inventor/collaborator on the polygraph
machine were formative in her decision to enter the East Bay
Regional Police Department in the 1970s.
She graduated with honors from
the Police Academy and served as Patrol Officer, Sergeant, Acting
Lieutenant and Homicide Detective prior to taking the position
as Police Academy Manager at the Contra Costa Regional Training
Center at Los Medanos College.
She received her second Master’s
Degree in Public Administration in 1991 as she began her tenure
at the College. She was named Director of the Training Center
responsible for not only the Police Academy but all of the Advanced
Officer courses, the Paramedic Academy, Fire Academy, EMT and
an extensive curriculum of the college level courses associated
with law enforcement, fire and pre-hospital care.
Gretchen met Paul Ekman when
she instituted the Analytic Interviewing course that Paul Ekman
and JJ Newberry created for advanced interviewing training.
She continued her training and teaching with Paul Ekman after
she retired from the Training Center. She has taught for 5 years,
currently for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and
the South Bay Regional Training Center as well as for the Paul
Ekman Group. Gretchen teamed up with Sue Oliviera and Mark Peterson
to deliver one of the first Emotions Revealed courses in Pacific
Grove.
Gretchen lives in the California
foothills. She raises grass-fed beef on her ranch, serves in
the El Dorado County Mounted Search and Rescue Unit and enjoys
a new endeavor in Real Estate helping people find the wonderful
style of life she knows.
Bob Harms
 Bob
Harms is a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sergeant assigned
to the Department’s Narcotic Bureau.
He has been in law enforcement
for more than twenty-six years. Bob has instructed at the Los
Angeles County Sheriff’s Training Academy, the Federal
Law Enforcement Training Center, and before other Federal, State,
and Local Law Enforcement personnel, civilian groups and organizations
on various subjects.
He is a national instructor in
Analytic Interviewing, Hate and Bias Crimes, Undercover Investigative
Techniques, and Case Management. Bob has trained personnel from
U.S. State Department (Foreign Service Institute), National
Counter Intelligence Executive (NCIX), Ft. Meade (U.S. Army),
Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), The Department of Defense
(DOD), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. Secret Service
(USSS), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(ATF), to name a few.
Hughes Hervé
Hugues Hervé is a registered
psychologist in British Columbia, Canada.
 He
graduated from the University of British Columbia, where he studied
Clinical and Forensic Psychology. He has worked for the Correctional
Service of Canada, conducting assessments on all types of offenders,
serving as a member of the Regional Research Committee, and providing
consulting services, and currently holds a position at the Forensic
Psychiatric Hospital in British Columbia, conducting assessments
on remand cases (pre-trial), assessing and treating persons who
have been found unfit to stand trial and/or not criminally responsible
for their actions, consulting on new initiatives, and training
staff.
His private practice focuses on
conducting assessments within the forensic and medico-legal arenas
and on providing training to various professional groups on mental
illness, personality, evaluating truthfulness, and interviewing.
Finally, he remains active in the
research community by engaging in collaborative investigations
on applied topics within the areas of credibility, eyewitness
memory, and criminal conduct, with special emphasis being placed
on the mediating/moderating roles of mental illness and personality
(including psychopathy).
Paul Kelly
Paul F. Kelly has over thirty-five
years of experience in criminal investigations, emergency planning,
counterterrorism, and dignitary protection.
As a Special Agent of the U.S.
Secret Service, his assignments included the Washington, D.C.
and New York City field offices, and the White House. He also
was a Senior Instructor at the U.S. Secret Service Training Academy
in areas such as Interviewing Techniques, Protective Intelligence,
and Operations Security.
 He
received his B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and
his M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii, where
his studies included Chinese Mandarin.
A decorated Marine Corp officer and Vietnam veteran, his military
duties included training as an interrogator of prisoners of war.
Since his retirement as Assistant
Special Agent In Charge of the White House Division, he has served
as a security consultant in both the government and corporate
sectors. His assignments have taken him to Israel, Afghanistan,
China, and Bosnia, as well as to major events such as the World
Cup and the Olympic Games.
He is a member of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police, the International Association
of Financial Crimes Investigators, the International Association
of Asian Crime Investigators, and the American Society of Industrial
Se
Matt Logan
 Matt
Logan is a Staff Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
He was working as a Psychologist
with Correctional Services Canada (CSC) from May, 1999 to November,
2001 where he did Psychological Risk Assessments for the National
Parole Board and worked in therapy with predatory sex offenders.
As Psychologist in Major Crime,
he is involved as a consultant to Serious Crime Sections, Undercover
Unit, Interview Team, and Crisis Negotiation Teams. Psychological
Risk and Threat Assessments are provided on suspects in serious
crime investigations and Expert Evidence is given in Court on
violent and deviant sexual behaviour.
He provides training in conjunction
with Dr. Robert Hare in the area of Psychopathy and Dr. Paul Ekman
in Detecting Deception and Evaluating Truthfulness.
Randy Mackoff
Randy Mackoff is a psychologist,
registered with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia
since 1993.
He completed his Doctoral Degree
at the University of British Columbia. He has provided psychological
opinions in approximately two thousand cases to lawyers adjudicating
criminal victimization cases with the Criminal Injury Compensation
Program of British Columbia.
 He
has conducted in-depth psychological assessments in the area of
criminal victimization. He is frequently retained to conduct psycho-legal
assessments for a wide range of issues. Many of the assessment
conducted address issues of credibility.
He provides psychological consultation
to the RCMP and municipal police forces around the province. He
is a designated psychologist providing critical incident intervention
for the RCMP. He also provides critical incident intervention
for a number of municipal police services.
He is a College Professor in the
Criminology Department at Douglas College and is the past Chairperson
of the Criminology Department. As a contract psychologist for
a large Employees’ Assistance Program, he provides telephone
crisis intervention for survivors of the World Trade Center terrorist
attack of September 11, 2001.
He is a Clinical Associate in the
Clinical Psychology Department at Simon Fraser University. He
is involved in the area of performance enhancement in the areas
of business and sport. He was a police officer for twelve years
before starting his career in psychology.
David Matsumoto
David Matsumoto is an internationally
acclaimed author and psychologist. He received his B.A. from the
University of Michigan in 1981 with High Honors in Psychology
and Japanese. He subsequently earned his M.A. (1983) and Ph.D.
(1986) in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.
He is currently Professor of Psychology
and Director of the Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory at
San Francisco State University, where he has been since 1989.
 He
has studied culture, emotion, social interaction and communication
for 20 years, and has approximately 400 works in these areas.
His books include well-known titles such as Culture and Psychology:
People Around the World (Wadsworth; translated into Dutch and
Japanese), The Intercultural Adjustment Potential of Japanese
The Handbook of Culture and Psychology (Oxford University Press;
translated into Russian), and The New Japan (Intercultural Press;
translated into Chinese).
He is the recipient of many awards
and honors in the field of psychology, including being named a
G. Stanley Hall lecturer by the American Psychological Association.
He is the series editor for Oxford University Press’ series
on Culture, Cognition, and Behavior. He is also an Associate Editor
for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and is on the editorial
boards of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Asian Psychologist,
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Motivation and Emotion, Cognition
and Emotion, and Human Communication.
Matsumoto is also a judo coach and official. He holds a 6th degree
black belt in judo, a Class A Coaching Certificate from the US
Judo Federation, Teaching Certificates in seven katas of judo,
and a Class A International Referee License from the International
Judo Federation. He is the head instructor of the East Bay Judo
Institute, located in El Cerrito, California. He received the
U.S. Olympic Committee’s Developmental Coach of the Year
Award in Judo in 1999, the U.S. Judo Federation’s Senior
and Junior Female Coach of the Year Award in 2001, the U.S. Judo
Federation’s Senior Female Coach of the Year Award in 2002
and 2003, the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Coach of the Year
Award in 2003, and an acclamation
Susan Oliviera
Susan Oliviera, Ph.D. has over
30 years of experience teaching, counseling and leading law
enforcement and other public safety personnel. As Executive
Director of the South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium,
she lead a large staff of managers and instructors to deliver
training and education to public safety personnel in a five-county
area as well as throughout the state of California.
 Since
her retirement from South Bay, she serves as a Special Consultant
to The Commission on Peace officer Standards and Training for
the State of California to ensure instructor competency in state
police academies and agencies. She also facilitates instruction
in interviewing techniques for law enforcement officers and
a leadership and supervision course for new first-line supervisors.
As a recognized consultant in
stress management for law enforcement, Dr. Oliviera is often
called upon to consult and speak to public safety organizations
statewide.
Trained by Dr. Paul Ekman, she
has delivered training in evaluating truthfulness and in evaluating
emotional skills in several venues.
She currently resides in Monterey,
California
John Pearse
John Pearse (BSc (Hons), PhD, C.
Psychol, AFBPsS, FRSM) is a chartered psychologist, a member of
the British Psychological Society, an associate member of the
Division of Forensic Psychology and a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Medicine. He holds a current practising certificate issued
by the British Psychological Society [2007/8]. 
As a psychologist he has been conducting and publishing research
in the area of police interviewing and related issues since 1991.
His most recent publications include ‘The Identification
and Measurement of ‘Oppressive’ Police Interviewing
Tactics in Britain’ in Gudjonsson, (2003) The Psychology
of Interrogations and Confessions, Wiley, chapter 4; and ‘The
Interrogation of Terrorist Suspects: the banality of torture’,
in Williamson (2006) Investigative Interviewing: rights, research
regulation, chapter 4, Willan Publishing. A number of other articles
are in press.
For more than three decades John served as a detective in London
and was engaged in the fight against organised crime at a senior
level. His work in specialist roles included armed robbery, criminal
intelligence, hostage and kidnap negotiation, and he concluded
his service as a senior officer in the terrorist arena with a
number of high profile and innovative terrorist prosecutions.
At a more discreet level John has been responsible for the planning
and management of national and international undercover operations
that have led to the recovery of high value commodities (e.g.,
works of art, drugs) or to the disruption of criminal and terrorist
hierarchies.
He has provided counter terrorist advice around the world on behalf
of the Foreign Office and New Scotland Yard and he has been responsible
for the design and delivery of a number of acclaimed international
mutli - agency counter terrorism seminars.
John has been associated with The
Ekman Group Training Division since the mid-nineties in an educational,
research and training capacity. He is currently Director of EU
Operations.
Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan is a professor
of psychology at the University of San Francisco where she has
served as dean for humanities and social sciences and chairman
of the psychology department.
She has studied people’s
ability to understand others for more than 30 years. One aspect
of this social-emotional intelligence is the ability to detect
deception. Her research articles and book chapters on these topics
have received media attention in science TV programs in Germany,
Australia, and Great Britain.
 She
has also been interviewed for many national and local TV and radio
shows as well as newspapers, such as the NY Times and magazines
such as The New Yorker. She is particularly interested in lie
detection geniuses (“Truth wizards”), the top two
percent of people who are accurate in telling whether others are
truthful. Dr. O’Sullivan has identified and is studying
a group of such individuals to determine the behavioral clues
and cognitive techniques they use in achieving their unusual accuracy.
Dr. O'Sullivan’s other research
areas include cross-cultural aspects of romantic love, as well
as deception and self deception in romantic relationships and
methods of improving teaching about interviewing and other psychological
topics.
She has won awards for teaching
excellence, scientific creativity and service to the media.
Mark Peterson
 Mark
is a retired psychologist who has a passionate interest in the
issues of human communication.
He began his career with a Doctoral
Dissertation studying the effect of emotions on cognitive behavior.
Now he is attracted to the issues of working with adults around
how to effectively recognize human emotions both in themselves
and in others using the materials that Paul Ekman has developed.
He loves to teach!
Wayne Porter
is a retired Special Agent with
the Florida Department of Law Enforcement where he worked as
a police profiler for the state agency.
 He
is one of 75 FBI sponsored Police Fellow profilers worldwide.
For the past twenty-four years Mr. Porter has been administering
polygraph examinations for Local, State, and Federal Law Enforcement
agencies on criminal and internal matters.
He has conducted over 4,000 polygraph
examinations in his career.
Educational accomplishments include
a Bachelor of Science in Criminology from Florida State University
and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Rollins College
in Winter Park, Florida.
Wayne Porter has lectured to
law enforcement and civilians all over North America, in London,
England at New Scotland Yard, as well as throughout Europe.
His criminal investigative analysis course offerings can be
found on alphagroupcenter.com.
Mr. Porter has authored Workplace
Violence in Healthcare Toolkit: A Guide to Establishing a Prevention
& Training Program. Published by McGraw Hill Publishing.
1999.
Ian Prescott
 Ian
has been a Police Officer for 25 years and a Detective at Scotland
Yard for 22 of them - predominantly in an Intelligence role.
He has trained uniform and detective officers of all ranks both
in the UK and abroad in; Interviewing, Sexual Offences, Forensics,
Community and Diversity issues, Intelligence and Investigation.
He has also conducted Training Needs Analyses and designed training
programmes.
Currently on secondment at the
internationally renowned Police College at Bramshill. He designs
exercises for officers in decision making using the Hydra immersive
learning environment, and also delivers the Ekman Training Groups
‘Evaluating Truthfulness’ Workshops at New Scotland
Yard.
He possesses a Masters Degree in Education (Training and Evaluation)
from the University of Hull, and a Post Graduate Certificate
of Education from the University of Greenwich.
John Yuille
John Yuille was born in Montreal
and received his university education at McGill University
and the University of Western Ontario.
Following completion of his
Ph.D. in 1967 he spent a year at McGill as a National Research
Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined the faculty
of the University of British Columbia in 1968. He spent a
year as a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg,
Austria (1974-75) and a year at the Family Life Development
Division of Cornell University (1990-91). As of January 1,
2007 he will be Professor Emeritus at the University of British
Columbia.
 His
area of specialization is forensic psychology, the application
of psychology to the criminal-justice system. His particular
interest is in the memory of victims, witnesses and suspects
and on interviewing techniques. His work has focused on child
abuse, trauma and memory, and on the assessment of the witness’
credibility.
For more than twenty-five years
he has collaborated with psychologists, social workers, prosecutors
and police in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom
and Germany to develop standardized procedures for investigative
interviews and for credibility assessment.
He has conducted over 160 workshops
on these techniques for police, social workers, psychologists,
prosecutors and judges. He regularly serves as a consultant
to police, law enforcement, prosecutors and defense attorneys
in cases of child abuse, sexual assault and murder. He has
provided expert evidence in scores of trials in criminal,
civil and family court in both Canada and the United States.
He has been an active researcher
for over 35 years. He has authored or co-authored more than
100 journal articles and chapters in edited volumes and seven
books and monographs. He presented or co-authored more than
250 presentations to professional meetings.
He is a co-founder and the
director of The Ekman Group – Training Division (TEG-TD).
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