Felix P. Nater, President and Owner of Nater Associates Ltd. is a workplace security advisor, security management consultant that helps manufacturing, processing, production, and utility companies implement and manage workplace security strategy with a focus on workplace violence prevention. He coaches leaders and train workforces on how best to combat the threat of workplace violence through high-level advice, assistance in the development of an organizational response involving intervention strategies including f policy, plans, and training solutions. He knows how to roll up his sleeves and collaborate with the company experts in coordinating the effort with your leadership team to create the right outcomes. This is something I have been doing over the last thirty years.
Mr. Nater is a nationally recognized highly skilled Workplace Violence Prevention Advisor & Consultant retired from federal law enforcement with 3 decades of federal law enforcement, investigative, program management and security experiences as a United States Postal Inspector, Special Investigator and Postal Police Officer and security management consultant.
Mr. Nater brings a deep understanding of the workplace violence threat and application of prevention strategy, expertise acquired from his experiences on a United States Postal Inspection Service’s New York Division, Workplace Violence Prevention Team between August 1992 and December 2000 and since then as the President and Owner of Nater Associates Ltd. as a security consultant incorporated October 2002. His Certified Security Consultant (CSC) certification was awarded in 2006 by the International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC). Felix brings a unique level of exposure as an independent security management consultant specializing as a workplace security advisor helping employers understand how best to manage and mitigate the threat of violence. Mr. Nater is also a retired Army Reserve Sergeant Major, serving as the Command Sergeant Major of a major Army Reserve Command in his last assignment rising through the ranks before retirement.
During his Postal Inspector career, Mr. Nater held diversified criminal, security, and training assignments and positions at the national, regional, and local levels as a program manager for training, recruitment and public information and task force leader of the Universal Postmaster Union’s Security Team. Mr. Nater held various assignments as a field inspector including task force leader, division training officer, firearms instructor, and threat management coordinator. His field assignments included mail theft, burglary, armed robbery, and violent crime investigations.
On the Postal Inspection Service’s Workplace Violence Prevention Team, Mr. Nater conducted numerous workplace violence incident assessments/investigations & threat assessments, consulted with senior U.S. Postal Service management leadership and advised them on implementation strategy & risk and abatement measures, and rendered formal reports. He testified in Arbitration, EEOC and Merit Systems Protection Board Proceedings & civil and criminal court cases related to workplace violence matters.
Over the past two decades as President/Owner of Nater Associates, Mr. Nater matured his consulting practice he calls The Violence Interdiction Methodology ™ and Organization Support Model, a Robust, Agile, Proactive (RAP) System designed as an organizational response top down (Board Level, C-Suite and Senior Management) based on Leadership, Integration, Collaboration, Coordination, Communication, and Execution (LI3CE) grounded on commitment to accountability, responsibility and consequences (ARC). It was designed as an internal cost-effective strategy delivering customized services that leveraged the client’s limitations and resources. The VIM model takes advantage of functional resources in creating a cultural organizational response. The objective is to manage violence prevention efforts and resources as part of a collective strategy called PREP (Proactive, Responsive, Engagement and Practical) to prevent, manage, and identify root causes and contributing factors leading to preventable incidents of workplace violence.
Mr. Nater has attended various specialized training courses on aspects of workplace violence, workplace violence prevention and conflict management. Felix relies on his proven experiences and expertise in the delivery of client-centered management consulting services and addressing a client’s unique needs. He accomplishes this unique consulting approach by developing worksite specific strategies that help manage and reduce the threat of violence by increasing organizational commitment, creating cross functional alignment, workplace security awareness, helping clients assess worksite specific situations, identifying potential contributing conditions and factors that place employees at risk, assisting in workplace violence assessments to identify gaps in program management, determine culpability and implementing get well strategies that supports the client’s plans.
In support of the client’s overall training needs, Mr. Nater has consulted with client firms to design workplace security, workplace violence and active shooter policy, plans and procedures, designed customized active shooter/hostile intruder video, designed a 6 module eLearning training program and presented worksite specific customized training programs that included workplace violence prevention, active shooter/hostile intruder violence response and safe harbor room procedures, visitor management, access control, risk mitigation, role of security officers in workplace violence prevention, and front desk reception security.
The following completed projects highlight Mr. Nater’s demonstrated diversified deliverables in a variety of projects:
- partnered with a South Carolina based-prime security contractor to review school security measures and conduct risk mitigation, visitor management & access control training.
- designed and delivered a turnkey eLearning workplace violence prevention solution for a services company in Atlanta, GA.
- delivering customized workplace violence prevention and violence response worksite specific training to a South Carolina based utility firm.
- delivered computer based and worksite specific workplace violence prevention and violence response training for a Carolinas based utility provider in over three states.
- helped a major New Jersey based pharmaceutical company develop & implement workplace violence response plans and procedures training for their senior security leaders.
- helped assess and review the physical security posture of a Virginia based certification firm resulting in the implementation of workplace security & violence prevention measures, new policy, procedures, and plans.
- delivered customized workplace violence prevention, violence response and safe harbor procedures.
- completed a comprehensive Critical Vulnerability Threat Assessment and Security Audit of 125 Post Offices and Plants for the U.S. Postal Service, Long Island, NY
- conducted a workplace violence prevention security assessment for New Jersey based pharmaceutical warehouse and production operations resulting in major enhancements.
- partnered with a South Carolina based-prime security contractor to review school security measures and conducted risk mitigation, visitor management & access control training.
- conducted a workplace security assessment and risk mitigation training for a New York City based healthcare insurance provider at 11 field offices.
- conducted a workplace security assessment of security operations and delivered customer service training for security officers and customer service employees at a New York City-based children’s museum
- designed and delivered a corporate mailroom security and mail handling operations training program for a major New York City based defense contractor.
- currently conduct ongoing incident threat assessments and risk management services for a midsize New Jersey based processing plant
- provided ongoing long-term project management and litigation support services for a midsize New York City based document reproduction firm.
- collaborated with a national video training production firm to design & develop course content and storyboard for a security officer.
- collaborating with a Pennsylvania based major prime contractor in the writing of Workplace Violence Prevention Guidelines for a New York State union organization.
Mr. Nater was an Adjunct Instructor at Hofstra University where he worked with the Continuing Education Department conducting instructions on relative Security in Business Topics. He has been a Guest Instructor at Long Island University, Farmingdale University and Briarcliff College. He has delivered workshops at the various National Student Safety & Security Conferences, around the United States, a keynote speaker and presenter at various law enforcement, safety and security groups and private organizations on workplace violence prevention and business continuity topics. He has led discussion groups, panel sessions and roundtables on workplace violence, business continuity and contingency management nationally and regionally.
He is the published author of Combating Workplace Violence: Creating and Maintaining Safe Work Environments and a contributing author of Tips and Tales from The Booth: Avoiding Trade Show Mistakes and has had related articles published in nationally recognized publications, which reach a global audience of security, facility, and human resources professionals.
He has appeared or aired on CNN, New York One, ABC Business News, Channel 9, Long Island News, History Channel (Scripted Security program that never aired), WLIE/540 AM, WSOC New, Charlotte, NC, WBTV, Charlotte, NC related to workplace violence, workplace security, active shooter and letter and bomb security.
He has been a member and held offices, and title in various organizations most recently on the ANSWER Board of Governance, Charlotte, NC. Formerly Carolinas Chapter President and Secretary of the Institute of Management Consultants, (IMC) Greensboro, North Carolina; and past Member of the Island Trees High School Business to School Partnership committee; Board of Advisor and Board Member to the Homeland Intelligence Technologies, Inc.; Hispanic American Police Command Officers HAPCO (New York); Franklin Medical Center Community Board; the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island; International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC); the Nassau County Police Explorer’s Council; Past President of the Greater New York – Statue of Liberty Chapter (AUSA); Past President of the North East Chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professional (ATAP); & Chair of the New York City Area Committee for the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) for the Department of Defense.
He is the recipient of several civilian awards and commendation certificates and letters including the Long Island Works Coalition 2005 Small Business Leadership Award; nominated by International Facility Management Association (IFMA) 2007 Best Small Business Category; and in 2009 and was awarded the school – Business Partnership of Long Island; and the Carolinas Chapter, Institute Management Consultants Chapter Meritorious Award and others. He served as a mentor at the Island Trees High School’s Business to School Partnership.
During his Army Reserve career, Mr. Nater served in positions of increasing leadership responsibilities including Battalion Command Sergeant Major to Regional Support Command Sergeant Major. While attending the Army Sergeant’s Major Academy, he was the Vice President of the Leadership Division. He earned various military awards including the Meritorious Service Medal.
Mr. Nater is married to the beautiful Elizabeth Jackson Nater, and they have six children among them (two from a previous marriage). His eldest daughter is an Assistant Principal in the NYC School System, and his youngest daughter is employed as certified child development specialist in North Carolina.
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