This seminar discusses maximizing the Warriors' cerebral processes critical to success in a team environment and preparing them for peak performance during the fight. Throughout history, influential tactical leaders have honed their bodies to peak performance by focused exercise and constantly challenging their bodies to improve. No one argues the need for sustained, disciplined and concentrated effort at functional fitness combined with repetitive skill training to drive the utmost performance for SWAT officers. This seminar interweaves two key cognitive elements that tactical officers must develop to perform at their topmost levels. The presenter will briefly overview Emotional Intelligence and its necessity in the tactical response realm. Then, discuss how the EQi2 instrument measures emotional intelligence and provide specific techniques to improve each subcomponent.

Jeff Selleg worked in law enforcement from 1996 to 2022 and retired as a Commander from the Port of Seattle Police Department in Washington. He served as a member of Valley Regional SWAT from 2000 to 2022, starting on the entry team and further serving as an explosive breacher, sniper, sniper team leader, entry team leader, and team commander. Jeff served as a patrol and administrative services commander with collateral duty commands over the Explosive Detection Canine Unit, the Bomb Disposal Unit, and SWAT. Jeff volunteered as a member of the Washington State Tactical Officer's Association Board of Directors from 2007 to 2020, including several years as president. Jeff served as an advisor to the National Institute of Justice - Tactical Technology Working Group for the Department of Justice. He served twice as a National SWAT Standards Review Committee member. He assisted the NTOA as a committee member in designing the NTOA's Command College curriculum and currently serves as the Committee Chair of the NTOA's Tactical Leadership Committee. Jeff facilitates most of the NTOA's tactical leadership courses and many other specialty courses. He holds certifications as an instructor in most of the disciplines associated with tactical operations. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Saint Martin's University and a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University. Jeff has completed his coursework to earn his Doctorate of Education in Organizational Leadership through Northeastern University in Boston. Jeff holds graduate certificates in Executive Leadership from Cornell University and Project Management from Harvard University.