Greg Williams

Greg is a decorated, veteran urban law enforcement professional and former soldier with over 30 years of combined experience and expertise.

Greg has worked with the Drug Enforcement Administrations (DEA) Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) and the 5th Judicial District’s Drug Task Force and Shooting Task Force in Colorado. Greg has held virtually every position within law enforcement from patrol officer, shift supervisor, SWAT Director, undercover narcotics operations supervisor, Undersheriff and Interim Chief of Police.

Greg has a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret security clearance and has worked as a subject matter expert, contractor or consultant for many U.S. DoD agencies including the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO), Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) and the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Training Group (SOTG), to name a few.

Greg has trained every Tier One military force in the United States and much of the world. Greg has trained the DEA, FBI, ATF, CIA, DIA, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue team (BORSTAR), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other agencies tasked with the protection of US Citizens domestically and abroad.

Greg created Combat Profiling and the Combat Profiling Program of Instruction (POI) and the USJFCOMs highly successful Border Hunter Program of Instruction (POI). He was the architect of the world-renowned US Marine Corps’ highly successful and lifesaving “Combat Hunter Program”. In addition to the Combat Hunter Program of instruction (POI); Greg was instrumental in designing and refining the USMCs’ Lioness and Law Enforcement Professionals programs for combat zones.

The programs that Greg created, namely [Combat Profiling, HBPR&A (Human Behavior Pattern Recognition & Analysis), ASAT® (Advanced Situational Awareness Training), MASAT® (Maritime Advanced Situational Awareness Training), SOFSAT® (Special Operational Forces Advanced Situational Awareness Training), ITSAT® Insider Threat Situation Awareness Training)] are scientifically and academically vetted and combat tested (Iraq, Afghanistan, HOA) and currently in use by DoD Agencies, US Forces, and Homeland Defense partners. The Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) General James Mattis referred to Greg as a “National treasure.”

Greg is the founder and President of Arcadia Cognerati, a world-renowned training and consulting firm that has developed programs for private security firms, several major Airlines, numerous school systems, first Responders and law enforcement agencies. Greg has lectured at Universities in Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Colorado and California, and was the co-author on two white papers for scientific journals.