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Frank Canavan
PACT Training Co-Director
 Francis P. Canavan is a founder and Co-Director of PACT Training. With more than twenty years of training experience, Canavan has led and designed training programs for corporate, human service, law enforcement, military and educational workplaces. His presentations focus on a broad array of topics, including leadership development, conflict resolution, change, diversity, performance management, communication skills and training the trainer.
Canavan holds an MA from New York University in Crisis Management Training Techniques and a BS in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has an extensive background in security management and technical training and holds a Certified Protection Professional certificate from the American Society for Industrial Security.
Says Canavan, "The Structured Improvisations™ PACT Training designs for each client have proven to be remarkable training tools. These exercises replicate the actual workplace so realistically that the trainee feels and responds as if the situation were real. This is critical, for the only way to be able to practice what you know and learn is to experiment and take risks in an environment that looks and feels like your own."
Co-founder of St. Vincent's Hospital Rape Crisis Counseling Training Group, Canavan was advocating and educating the public on the issue of violence against women, years before the problem permeated the nation's conscience. He has appeared on national television and has been extensively quoted in journals and magazines as an expert in rape crisis intervention, domestic violence, violence in the workplace and sexual harassment.
Canavan has also received an array of honors from the US Department of Defense. His work history with the US Government and Military is long-standing and impressive, and he continues to serve as a training consultant to the US Department of Justice. In 1992 he retired from the US Army Reserve after twenty-two years of service.
A former instructor at the New School for Social Research on conflict and crisis management, Canavan has a strong background in curriculum design and program development. He has conducted workshops on training and education and has been a guest lecturer on a variety of topics, including crisis management and interpersonal communications.
Canavan has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Training and Development Journal, Occupational Outlook, Theater News, Employment Relations Today, on PBS's Scientific American Frontiers, on CBS Radio's The Osgood Files and NPR's All Things Considered.
Canavan's warm, perceptive and witty demeanor coupled with his extraordinary bank of knowledge and experience in crisis and leadership training makes him one of the most sought after trainers in his field.
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