About Us

The People Behind the Programs

Shielded Training Solutions was built by career law enforcement professionals who have spent decades in the field. The programs we deliver are not adapted from academic frameworks. They are built from experience.

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Our Team

Instructors Who Have Stood Where Your People Stand.

Ryan Leef

Ryan Leef

Co-Founder & President of Training

Ryan Leef brings more than 30 years of frontline law enforcement, corrections, and RCMP experience to Shielded Training Solutions. He is the creator and sole author of Situation Mastery, a registered trademark curriculum used by corrections services, territorial agencies, hospital security, and government institutional teams across Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

Ryan has served as a corrections officer, RCMP officer, and professional trainer. He has delivered training programs to agencies across Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and federally. Every one of them inbound, on the strength of his reputation and the outcomes his programs produce.

His programs are recognized for their flexible application and an instruction style that keeps staff and students genuinely engaged. An accomplished athlete who still competes on the international stage, Ryan brings a competitor's focus and persistence to every room he enters. He also designs and delivers agency-specific programs including recruit courses, Correctional Officer Development Training, Hospital Behavioural Health Worker, and Community Safety Officer programs.

He is a certified Situation Mastery Instructor Trainer, allowing the program to scale beyond his direct delivery. Shielded Training Solutions is Ryan's decision to formalize what he has been building for three decades and make it available to more agencies, more teams, and more of the people who need it.

Certifications

  • Certified Situation Mastery Instructor Trainer
  • Jim Wagner Reality Based Personal Protection Instructor
  • Certified Use of Force and Arrest and Control Instructor
Greg McHale

Greg McHale

Co-Founder & President

RCMP Officer Parks Officer SCAN Investigator Conservation Officer

Greg McHale is the President of Shielded Training Solutions and a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer with extensive experience in law enforcement, investigations, regulatory enforcement, and public safety.

Throughout his career, Greg has served as an RCMP officer, Parks Officer, Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) Investigator, and Conservation Officer. His diverse enforcement background has provided him with specialized expertise in investigations, intelligence gathering, compliance enforcement, risk management, and operational leadership.

Greg is a registered member of Batchewana First Nation. His Indigenous heritage shapes his approach to community-based training and informs the work Shielded Training Solutions does with First Nations enforcement agencies and Indigenous-serving institutions across Canada.

Drawing on decades of frontline and investigative experience, Greg delivers practical, reality based training for law enforcement agencies, security professionals, Indigenous communities, regulatory organizations, and public sector clients. His training focuses on officer safety, legal authorities, investigative techniques, professional conduct, and effective decision making in dynamic environments.

Under Greg's leadership, Shielded Training Solutions is committed to providing professional, experience driven training that prepares personnel to meet the complex challenges of today's enforcement and security landscape.

Background

  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Officer
  • Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) Investigator
  • Parks Officer
  • Conservation Officer

Certified Instructors

Expanding Delivery Capacity Across Canada

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Ian Ellsworth

Certified Instructor — NWT

Ian Ellsworth is a certified Situation Mastery instructor and founder of Trinity Tactical in the Northwest Territories. Ian brings strength to the instructor team, expanding delivery capacity for the company's largest and most consistent client base.

His law enforcement background and NWT operational experience position him as a trusted extension of the programs Shielded Training Solutions delivers to northern clients.

"Real training. Real results. Real partnership."

Our Approach

We measure success by what happens in your workplace after the program ends. That is what it means to be a partner in service rather than a proprietor of a product. We are not here to deliver a program, collect a fee, and move on. We are here to understand your environment, your people, and your specific challenges — and build something that performs in your context.

That mindset comes from where we are from. Shielded Training Solutions is a northern company, built by people with deep ties to the communities and institutions they have served. We bring a grass-roots, community-minded approach to every engagement — personally invested in the outcomes your team achieves. We see the challenges you face as opportunities to find better ways forward. And we are on a continuous course of learning alongside the organizations we work with.

What Clients Say

Trusted by the People Doing the Work

"The best course I have taken in my career as an officer. Found the instructor to be knowledgeable on the content. Very professional and effective in his delivery."

Course Participant Student Evaluation

"All staff should be trained in this course. This should be the cornerstone of future recruit training."

Course Participant Student Evaluation

"I have been in this field for fifteen years and this is the first course that changed the way I think about the job. Grounded in real experience, not theory. You walk away with things you will actually use."

Course Participant Student Evaluation

Formal reference letters available upon request. Housing NWT letter of support in progress.

Indigenous Ownership

A Company Built from Northern Roots

Shielded Training Solutions is a majority Indigenous-owned Canadian company. Our President and majority owner, Greg McHale, is a registered member of Batchewana First Nation. We are registered with the federal Indigenous Business Directory and eligible for PSIB set-aside procurement. We are not a company that added an Indigenous partner to access procurement preferences. We are a company built by northern Canadians with deep ties to the communities and institutions we serve.

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Bring Shielded Training Solutions to Your Team

We work with government agencies, healthcare institutions, corrections services, private aviation and transportation companies, and any organization whose people face difficult situations on the job. Tell us what your team needs.

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