Michael has spent the last 21 years working with Campus Safety in various capacities such as staff sergeant, associate director and now director. He has distinguished himself as a leader with a focus on a collaborative, respectful, equitable, inclusive and solution-driven approach.
He has established an efficient communication process with senior administration members to ensure that Campus Safety is working to support the university’s mission and mandate.
Michael has achieved numerous certifications in critical incident management, crisis preparedness, assessing and managing violence, risk threat assessment, investigative interviewing, scientific content analysis, post-secondary violence threat risk assessment, trauma counselling for front-line workers, applied suicide intervention and is a certified complaint coordinator through the Ontario Police Services Act.
Michael is a graduate of the police leadership program at the Rotman School of Management and is a member of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, and the Ontario Association of College and University Administrators where he serves as vice-president, universities.