WHAT CAN A SIMULATED COLD CASE INVESTIGATION TELL YOU ABOUT YOUR EMPLOYEES - AND YOURSELF?

 

Who will be the first in your group to solve the case and, just as importantly, how will they do it? Will it be a collaborative team effort or a partisan survival of the fittest? Who will naturally take charge and maximize the group's human resources in search for a solution and who will wait to be assigned a task? Who in your group will look at crime scene photographs and see what they want to see versus what's actually there? Where would you begin dissecting a ransom letter or objectively making sense of a strange clue left near a crime scene and determining its value? Can you calculate where an offender likely lives based on the location of the crime scene? (hint: you can) - better yet, who will be the first to determine how?

 

These are but a handful of the questions that corporate leaders may be curious to see answered in one-of-a-kind dynamic group exercises I've designed to accurately simulate the real-world steps of an ongoing investigation into a crime with equally real human and intellectual stakes. The interactive and multimedia scenarios I offer also simulate the work done by my Cold Case Society team members at Western University in partnership with the Murder Accountability Project in Metro DC, and where tasks that range from digging through and contextualizing big data to identifying indicators of deception in interviews can fundamentally improve non-linear thinking and approaches to everyday problems in the participants' own workplaces - and their own lives.

 

Each session consists of a full day workshop where groups are divided into teams and assigned a common case to investigate. New clues, changing priorities, and instructional tutorials on investigative techniques and analytical strategies are interwoven over the course of the session as teams work under pressure toward an accurate resolution. It is not intended to be a competition; however, bragging rights will obviously be bestowed upon the team that correctly solves the case first. That is, until the next time when the stakes are elevated and the difficulty level increased.

 

Take a look at the specific workshop genres below to see a sample of what each one has in store and contact my team for further details.