Susan Lewis Simons is the President and Founder of Under the Shield, Inc. and is deemed to be one of the Nation’s leading subject matter experts in the area of Law Enforcement and Public Safety Stress and Critical Incident Response. Under the Shield is the only organization that has been providing resiliency based training for law enforcement, first responders, military and families of each for 25 years nationwide, Canada and Europe. They are also the only organization providing Stress Coaching to these populations. She has served as an Associate Professor at Herzing University in their Bachelor of Science in Homeland Security and Public Safety, guest instructor at the FBI Law Enforcement Academy in Quantico Virginia, US Marine Corps. 3rd Battalion, 23 Marines, Lima Company and the United States Air Force in Europe. She was a consulting clinician in New York City post September 11, 2001, working with the Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance.