Detective Kevin Coffey

Travel Safety and Meeting Risk Expert

Nancy's Note:

“Each time I’ve booked Det. Coffey for various events, audiences have been blown away by the sheer amount of valuable information he provides, things they might never have considered. Any organization intent on keeping its employees and/or meeting attendees safe and secure, should heed my advice: Hire Kevin Coffey! Period.”

Detective Kevin Coffey

Travel Safety and Meeting Risk Expert

Nancy’s Note
“Each time I’ve booked Det. Coffey for various events, audiences have been blown away by the sheer amount of valuable information he provides, things they might never have considered. Any organization intent on keeping its employees and/or meeting attendees safe and secure, should heed my advice: Hire Kevin Coffey! Period.”

Detective Kevin Coffey

Travel Safety and Meeting Risk Expert

Nancy’s Note
“Each time I’ve booked Det. Coffey for various events, audiences have been blown away by the sheer amount of valuable information he provides, things they might never have considered. Any organization intent on keeping its employees and/or meeting attendees safe and secure, should heed my advice: Hire Kevin Coffey! Period.”

Expertise

Travel Safety, Risk Management, Meetings/Events, Hospitality, Safety, Security, Identify Theft, Law Enforcement

Travels From

Los Angeles, California

Speaking Style

Passionate, Highly Knowledgeable, Engrossing

About Kevin...

Detective Kevin Coffey is the premier expert on corporate travel safety, risk management for meetings and events, and students traveling abroad. 

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Presentation Topics

Everyone travels – whether for business or leisure, however, having more than basic “street-smart” awareness can make a huge difference to the outcome of your travelers’ domestic and international trips. Nowadays it takes more than the old adage “just use common sense” to avoid the many pitfalls of travel.

One of the best investments you can make in your travelers is to empower them to travel safe and smart!  As a personal safety coach, Kevin educates your sales force and executives using a fresh and motivational style. He shows where problems can occur during a trip, how to best avoid them, and should they occur what are the best practices in contingency planning. Kevin addresses lost or stolen property like business laptops and phones, victimization by pickpockets and scam artists, hotel safety concerns, using public transportation and identity theft vulnerabilities while on the road. Additionally, he also addresses the event of terrorist activities, even domestically, and recommended response protocols.

While each presentation is customized to the audience’s needs, each program provides your travelers with forethought and “what if planning” to help them reduce a variety of travel pitfalls and to minimize emergency situations. The following is a sampling of some of the travel safety topics that can be shared with your audience:

  • Important pre-departure considerations travelers don’t think about.
  • Top travel document and passport guidelines
  • Checked luggage and carry-on bag tips
  • Defensive strategies for protecting property (laptops, phones etc.)
  • Situational awareness while traveling.
  • The most common locations and methods where travelers are victimized, and how to avoid them
  • The street criminal mindset and how and why they select victims
  • How to prepare for a crisis abroad – before it occurs
  • Important websites and apps travelers should know and use

If you’re a travel manager or industry supplier partner, this is a must-attend program as it addresses traveler safety and your growing responsibility in ensuring it. We will learn to understand duty of care from both sides. This travel risk reduction presentation offers travel managers and supplier partners the latest advice regarding travel safety as it relates to your roles, duty of care standards, and discusses current best practices.

You’ll hear about actionable security strategies and low-cost solutions to include in your protocols for ensuring the safety of your travelers and customers. Additionally, this program provides tools that can help managers review and evaluate whether their in-house travel risk and duty of care procedures meet industry standards.

After this program, the attendees will understand:

  • Benchmarking your organization against other current best practices when it comes to addressing the safety and security of their travelers – as well as the duty of care obligations.
  • How and when to address travelers about travel safety.
  • Most cost-effective steps to accomplish this training.
  • Unique hotel site inspection considerations.
  • Practical advice on the most common security, safety, health and safety issues facing business travelers today.

The majority of meetings and events take place without incident – but it just takes one time for something to occur that you did not consider. That’s where being a prepared meeting or event planner, as well as supplier, comes into play. One of the main challenges facing the meeting industry is that unlike how the business travel industry addresses travel risk, the meeting industry does not have one set of duty of care standards for the meeting industry.

Typically, many large meeting companies utilize meeting risk resources into their daily operations with their clients, however, generally speaking, unless the meeting they are involved with is of large size, most meeting planners do not utilize any type of risk management plan or checklist for small to mid-sized meetings.  That’s where it comes to the education of meeting planners in this very important area.

Planners want to integrate risk management into their meetings, but many times do not know where to start. That’s where this presentation comes into play, by showing meeting planners, as well as supplier partners how to anticipate meeting risk issues – before they occur, which also shows their clients that they are proactive in this very important area. This interactive presentation is designed for meeting and event planning professionals to help them better understand duty of care considerations, as well as the importance of having a crisis management plan in place, prior to a meeting and event. Both planners and suppliers will take-away actionable ideas that are low to no cost to help them better prepare and respond to risk issues that keep meeting professionals up at night.

After this program, the attendees will understand:

  • Benchmarking your current meeting and event procedures against current best practices to prevent risk.
  • How to put together a meeting risk plan and checklists at little to no cost.
  • How and when to address meeting and event risk.
  • How to create security, emergency, and crisis response plans and checklists.
  • Unique hotel, meeting, and event location site inspection considerations.
  • Practical advice on safety, security, and health issues that may impact meetings and events.
  • Where to turn to for meeting risk resources and training.

How prepared are your CVB/DMO members and partners when asked to address meeting and event risk, RFP questions and site inspections during meetings, incentive, conference, and exhibition (MICE) events? If you’re unsure, this program is for you.

Meeting and Event Risk Management Training is now another way to make your members stand out in how they address risk when competing for MICE events. CVBs need to be prepared and show leadership regarding the everchanging safety and security concerns their members face when it comes to destination and site selection. Event industry organizations have been teaching meeting planners to look at destinations that proactively address risk more favorably.

If your CVB/DMC is not providing enhanced MICE risk management education to its membership, expand your membership’s professional skills by offering them tools to make them more competitive. As a bonus, your government partners will also benefit from this program as they too will gain new tools to provide meeting and event risk resources. This partnership will strengthen your membership’s overall ability to successfully address risk. Contact our office for more information about this program.

Study abroad and international travel are life-changing and positive experiences and can be one of the most rewarding aspects of the college experience. However, students and families must understand the risks associated with travel to a foreign country, learn how to best avoid them, and then, what to do should they occur. The “Street-Smart Travel Skills for College Students” presentation is designed to educate students on how to identify, minimize, and respond to the most common travel emergencies and mishaps that can occur while traveling.

This program is designed as a contingency planning program – before someone travels abroad. It’s designed not to scare, but to enlighten and guide travelers and their families on what to do before they travel. The “Street Smart Travel Skills for College Students” is presented by a police detective who specializes in the prevention of travel crime, founded the airport’s crimes detail for the nation’s second-largest airport, and is an expert the news media routinely consults when it comes to travel crime. This information is current and factual.

Detective Kevin Coffey jumps right into the “do’s and don’ts” of traveling, by providing tips, tools, and insights to reduce the traveler’s chances of becoming a victim of street crime, pickpockets, travel scams, and other mishaps that can turn a trip upside down. Students will learn by watching actual crime videos showing real travelers fall victim to the most common travel scams, followed by advice on how to best avoid them. The presentation ends with an interactive question-and-answer session. While every college, university, or high school group of travelers are different, the program is adapted to the client’s needs. The following are a listing of the modules offered in this eye-opening presentation include:

  • Pre-departure considerations
  • Travel document security
  • Money and credit card security issues
  • Keeping your gear safe while abroad – luggage, purse, travel bag, and phones
  • Transportation issues – avoiding scams on metros, trains, taxis, and buses
  • Street crimes, pickpockets, and other travel scams, and how to mitigate them
  • Situational awareness
  • Staying safe in dorms, hostels, and hotels
  • Assessment of potential local health and safety risks
  • Safety and security resources while abroad
  • Women’s travel safety tips
  • Contingency planning, should you become a victim of theft
  • Useful apps and websites for travel preparation and while you’re abroad