Kristine Kienlen Psy. D., Licensed Psychologist 

Dr. Kristine Kienlen is a forensic psychologist and the President of Minnesota Threat Assessment & Forensic Professionals, Inc., a private practice providing threat management consultation services and forensic psychological evaluations.  Dr. Kienlen has over 17 years of experience conducting forensic psychological evaluations and serving as an expert witness for a range of criminal and civil litigation matters.  Her work in both the public and private sectors has involved comprehensive and objective forensic psychological assessments of thousands of individuals for Minnesota District Courts, attorneys, employers, and others.  Dr. Kienlen has extensive experience and expertise conducting psychological evaluations and risk assessments of individuals who have engaged in threats, harassment/stalking, sexual offenses, and other serious violence.  She has conducted and published research on stalking and is a frequent presenter to professional groups on stalking, forensic evaluation, and threat assessment.  As a consultant for college campuses and employers, Dr. Kienlen provides case assessments, training for multidisciplinary threat assessment teams, and assists with policy development, awareness building, and protocols for violence prevention.  She is a trained professional user of the WAVR-21 (Workplace Assessment of Violence Risk instrument) and she collaborates with Work Trauma Services, Inc. on regional risk assessments and training programs. Dr. Kienlen is available on call to colleges and employers for threat management consultation, violence risk assessments, and fitness for duty evaluations.  Dr. Kienlen also continues to conduct a range of forensic psychological evaluations addressing violence risk, competence to stand trial, criminal responsibility (insanity defense), pre-sentencing issues, civil commitment, and emotional distress in personal injury or employment litigation.  

Stephen G. White, Ph.D.

Dr. Stephen White is a psychologist and the President of Work Trauma Services Inc., a consulting group he founded in 1982 to assist employers with serious workplace crises.  His extensive work in organizational trauma reduction led to his specializing, since 1989, in the assessment and management of workplace violence risk.  Dr. White has consulted throughout the United States on over 4,000 threat cases for numerous Fortune 500 companies, private and public organizations, law firms and their clients, colleges and universities, and law enforcement and governmental agencies.  He has designed and provided detailed employer and campus threat management team training for responding to a wide range of potential risk scenarios.  Dr. White has testified before the California State Legislature on behalf of workplace violence prevention legislation, and has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications in the areas of stalking, workplace mass murder, violence risk assessment, and workplace trauma management.  Dr. White, in collaboration with Dr. Reid Meloy, developed and published in 2007 The WAVR-21, the first scientifically based structured professional guide for assessing workplace violence risk.  He was among invited experts of both the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and the American Society of Industrial Security to participate in their development of online and published guidelines for the prevention of workplace violence.  In recent years his consultation and training has expanded internationally to meet the growing global needs of corporations, universities, and law enforcement agencies.  Dr. White is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, where he has co-facilitated professional development groups for medical students.  He is a frequent guest lecturer at local, regional, and national forums for human resource, security, and mental health professionals, campus administrators, law enforcement agencies, and employment law attorneys.  He collaborates on risk assessments and training with Minnesota Threat Assessment and Forensic Professionals.

Michael Gordon Farnsworth, M.D.

Dr. Michael Farnsworth is a forensic psychiatrist with more than 20 years experience conducting high-risk evaluations in criminal and civil settings. Dr. Farnsworth is the former medical director of the Minnesota Security Hospital and Minnesota Sex Offender Program at St. Peter and Moose Lake. He is currently in private practice and serves as a consultant to Blue Earth County Human Services (Mankato), Medical Director of South Central Crisis Center (Mankato) and consultant to Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Farnsworth holds clinical appointments to the University of Minnesota Medical School and Mayo Medical School departments of psychiatry.  Dr. Farnsworth is a sought after expert in Civil Litigation matters and conducts forensic evaluations regarding various employment issues, personal injury, and medical malpractice.  He has years of experience conducting criminal evaluations regarding Competence to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility (Insanity defense) and continues to conduct these and other criminal evaluations in private practice.  Dr. Farnsworth is also a frequent presenter on professional topics including psychotropic medications, psychiatric diagnostic issues, violence risk, and other forensic psychiatry topics.

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Randy J. McAlister, M.A.

McAlister Threat Management, LLC

Randy McAlister is a detective sergeant in the Twin Cities area and the Principal at McAlister Threat Management, LLC. He has extensive experience both conducting criminal investigations and managing an investigative division. He has been in law enforcement since 1998 and holds a Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice Leadership.  Additionally, he has participated in numerous high-risk events and operations as a SWAT team member and currently serves as a team commander. He has specialized training in high-risk event planning, crowd control, covert surveillance, hostage rescue, and protective services operations.  Sgt. McAlister is a recognized expert in domestic violence response, homicide prevention and case management in the Twin Cities area. In recent years, his professional interests have focused around targeted violence threat assessment and violence prevention. He is a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and is noted for proactively managing cases of domestic violence, stalking, workplace violence, and threats to schools. As a threat assessment professional and Principal at McAlister Threat Management, Sgt. McAlister specializes in working with victims, employers, and schools to identify high-risk situations and provides hands-on case management services. He collaborates on case management and training with Minnesota Threat Assessment and Forensic Professionals.