On August 19, 2013, Antoinette Tuff was a
school bookkeeper, severely depressed that her husband of 33 years
had recently left and faced the daunting challenges of raising a
son with multiple disabilities and a daughter in law school as a
single Mom. Never did she think that she would become a hero saving
more than 1,000 lives, a best-selling author, an international
celebrity, an expert on community safety, the Founder and CEO of a
non-profit, Kids On the Move for Successor a guest of Michelle
Obama’s atthe State of the Union Address.The next day, her life
changed forever, Antoinette, an accidental hostage negotiator,
usedher experiences with challenging life issues to successfully
convince an armed gunman who entered the Ronal E. McNair Discovery
Learning Academy to give her his AK-47. This is the only school
active shooter situation in the US that ended without death or
injury to school students, faculty, parents or shooter himself.
Experience hostage negotiators, law enforcement and community
leaders praised her intuitive, yet textbook, hostage negotiations
on August 20, 2013.As a speaker, Antoinette shares how her everyday
crisis management techniques with Tuff Tactics apply to wide
variety situations, both large and small. Audience members will
learn how stressful incidents in their everyday life can be
leveraged as an asset when dealing with difficult interpersonal
relationships, heated customer interactions or if they find a gun
pointed in their direction. Her crisis management presentation with
Conversation in the Crosshairs is designed to complement structured
crisis situation and relationship training utilized by security,
human resource and legal teams.Seven-time Grammy®Award winner, Toni
Braxton, stars as Antoinette Tuff, in “Faith Under Fire”for
Lifetime TV.
Her story has been featured on CNN, Good
Morning America, USAToday, The View and many other places.
Her book: Prepared for a Purpose is
available on
Amazon.com