NORTHLAND CUSTOM TRAINING SOLUTIONS

Custom Training Solutions - Delivered.

Executive protection, tactical, and active shooter response, led by a 23-year FBI veteran who built the Bureau's own dignitary protection curriculum.

  • FBI DPD
  • FBI AGPD
  • Department of War
  • San Francisco FBI SWAT
  • Kansas City SWAT
  • Calgary Police Service
  • Barbados Police Service
  • Kansas Bureau of Investigation
  • London Metropolitan Police
  • Drug Enforcement Administration
  • Naval Criminal Investigative Service

TRAINED WITH AGENCIES WORLDWIDE

Rob Gunderson working a protective detail during National Police Week in Washington, D.C., with mounted police and an American flag behind

National Police Week, Washington, D.C.

Rob Gunderson standing with Calgary Police Service personnel between the Canadian and police flags

Calgary Police Service

Rob Gunderson standing with FBI Director Kash Patel in front of the American flag and the FBI flag

FBI Director

Rob Gunderson with an FBI teammate on a Kansas City rooftop overlooking a parade

Kansas City SWAT at Chiefs Parade

Rob Gunderson with a protective detail standing in front of an aircraft with the FBI Deputy Director

FBI Director

Who We Serve

Private-Sector Security Teams

In-house executive and dignitary protection details at Fortune 50 corporations and high-visibility organizations.

Law Enforcement & Tactical Units

SWAT and tactical teams, and the command/legal staff who support them.

Law Enforcement and Military Protection Units

Protective details operating under agency mandate, at home and abroad.

Corporate, Campus & Facilities Security Teams

Active shooter readiness for organizations without a dedicated tactical function.

What We Offer

Nothing here is off the shelf.
Every course is custom. These are the areas we train in — not packages you buy.
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Executive & Dignitary Protection

Sharpening the tactics, techniques, and procedures of protective teams already in the field — built around how your principal actually lives and works.

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SWAT Selection and Training

Tactical training, use-of-force policy review, and operator selection support for law enforcement and tactical units.

Use-of-force policy reviewDecision-making under pressureOperator selection methodologyTeam culture assessment
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Active Shooter Response

Response training scaled to your facility, your people, and your existing coordination with local law enforcement.

Why Northland

Most training runs a fixed program of instruction. Northland builds the curriculum around your team.

We meet your team where it is, not where we think it should be — and make the most of the training time and budget you already have.

Professionals are predictable.
High-stress repetition builds a response your teammates and principals can count on.
Guardrails, not guidelines.
We develop judgment and speed of decision, not a rolodex of procedures to recall.
Failure in training is an asset.
You're supposed to fail in training, so you don't fail in the field. Simple scenarios, complicated problems — and we find out why.
Culture means never having to recruit.
Build a brand of trusted professionalism and the right people find you.

What Teams Say

“This training ranks up there is some of the best and most meaningful training I have ever had. Although it was like drinking from a firehose, I have no doubt the buildout of our program will be much more successful given the knowledge we now have.”
Municipal Police Department
Dignitary Protection Mission
“In 25 years of law enforcement, Rob is the best trainer I've had -- at all levels.”
Federal Dignitary Protection Agent
“I especially appreciated how you explained not only what should be done, but the “why”, while addressing the practical challenges that arise in an operational environment. That approach made the training directly applicable to our detail. I also greatly appreciate your commitment to remaining a resource as we develop and refine our SOPs.”
Federal Agency
Dignitary Protection Mission

Led by Rob Gunderson

Official portrait of Rob Gunderson in a dark suit, standing in front of an American flag
Rob Gunderson briefing a trainee in a doorway

Northland is led by Robert S. Gunderson, a 23-year FBI veteran who most recently served as Supervisory Special Agent in the Bureau's Protective Services Section — and who developed and led the FBI's own Dignitary Protection Basic and Sustainment Training.

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Ready to build training around your team?

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