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Where we came from and who we are
Jess Ram Consulting Inc.
Jess Ram Consulting Incorporated, formerly known as Jess Ram Consulting, provides a myriad of consulting and training programs and workshops to meet today's diverse and comprehensive client demands. We pride ourselves in delivering customized workshops and training that is delivered with enthusiasm and founded in knowledge and based on solid foundations of experience and credibility. This helps to ensure that your experience with us will be totally satisfying.
We provide you a range of management training to appeal to both the front line supervisors as well as the experienced manager. Whether your company requires communications skills training, leadership,motivational skills or just how to have those difficult conversations with employees, we can assist you.
Our range of Psychological Services includes not only training for CISM Peer Team members but a comprehensive support package that assists your company in both establishing and maintaining your Critical Incident Stress Management program. We also provide individual counselling in trauma . We specialize in services for First Responders.
Who is Jess Ram
Jess Ram has a diverse and multi-faceted background.
With a B.Comm from University of British Columbia and a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, also from UBC, Jess brings a strong academic background to the practice. He is also the first Canadian to graduate from the Los Angeles Police Leadership Academy (formerly known as the West Point Leadership Academy).
Jess is also a professional member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and holds the designation as a Canadian Certified Counsellor. He has been trained in Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and Life Stress Reduction (LSR) as well as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). After completing the basic EMDR training, Jess also completed specialized training for using this protocol with First Responders, after their exposure to trauma. He is now an EMDR Certified Therapist, as deemed by EMDR International. He has most recently achieved his Approved Consultant Status with the EMDR International Association and coaches therapists in effective use of EMDR. He maintains this status through continued training and dedication to the field.
He has over 33 years of front-line Law Enforcement experience, retiring as an Inspector, and has fused that with 28 years of teaching experience at the post secondary level in Business Administration. Jess also had a Provincial Appointment to the Board of Governors for the Justice Institute of British Columbia for three years.
His practical experience includes significant leadership positions within specialized law enforcement units and national certification in Critical Incident Command. He is also an approved trainer as recognized by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF). In addition, he is certified in Critical Incident Stress Management by the ICISF in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus.
Jess has taught within BC, across Western Canada, nationally and internationally. He has been published nationally. Jess headed a team and provided on-site support in New York after the events of 9-11, providing counselling services for the men and women of the N.Y.P.D.
Jess provides services and on-going support for both private and public sector clients in both management and psychological services. Most recently Jess has had the Honour of being appointed to the Distinguished Advisory Board of the University of Virginia's Center for Public Safety and Justice.