About Me
Jeff Owens is Owner and President of Transcend Inc. a professional training, and advisory company focused on helping leaders, teams, and organizations to reduce the risk of workplace violence and negative conflict, improve communication, build stronger connections, and create more respectful workplace relationships.
Jeff calls on his real-world experience as Honolulu Police Department Hostage Negotiator, Division Commander, Business Executive, and Business Owner to train others to use The Power of Respect to increase leadership influence, improve workplace relationships, build strong customer relationships, and advance personal and organizational success.
Jeff is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), the speaking profession’s highest earned award. With only about 400 CSP’s worldwide, recipients are internationally recognized as being among the best speakers in the world. In 2021 Jeff was inducted into the Hawaii Speakers Hall of Fame and the international Virtual Speakers Hall of Fame in 2023.
In 2015 Jeff was one of the first 17 people in the world to be awarded the designation of Certified Threat Manager (CTM) by the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals; an internationally recognized designation awarded to practitioners who through real-world work, Board evaluation, and rigorous testing, have distinguished themselves as being “the best of the best” at identifying and managing potentially or active violent, disruptive, or problematic people, and for expertise at behavioral threat assessment and management. To date there are only about 220 CTM's worldwide.