Gershon Ben Keren

Gershon Ben Keren instructs on a variety of topics, stemming from his professional background in the security industry, and academic background (a Master's Degree in Psychology and a second Master's Degree in Criminology/Criminal Psychology). He is a member of both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Society of Criminology (ASC).

Gershon holds a 5th Degree Black Belt in Krav Maga (the hand to hand combat system of the IDF). Gershon was inducted into the Israeli Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Herzliya, Israel in 2010. He is the Head of the Krav Maga Yashir System, and runs a full-time Krav Maga school in Woburn, MA.

Gershon is a co-founder of SEPS (Situations Effective Protection System), a system for predicting, preventing, and avoiding violence. The SEPS system was born out of a desire to bring operative-level security training to civilians, so that they can learn to make effective dynamic risk assessments, and formulate solutions, to a wide variety of situations. By teaching to a framework, the audience is left with strategies which can be applied to their lives, in a way that increases their personal safety and security on a daily basis, in the same way that a professional close protection operative, (or bodyguard), would run protocols to protect a client.