Investigator Training

Most investigators are taught what to do. Few are taught why it holds up — or why it doesn't.

Investigator training built on thirty years of operational experience across military, government, and corporate environments. Practical, methodology-driven, and designed to produce investigators who conduct defensible investigations consistently.

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Four disciplines that separate investigations that hold up from those that don't

01
Interview Technique

PEACE-based investigative interviewing — a structured, non-coercive methodology that produces reliable information and defensible records. Built for corporate environments where findings will be scrutinized.

02
Evidence Handling & Chain of Custody

How to collect, document, and preserve evidence so it holds up — regardless of whether the matter stays internal or escalates to litigation or regulatory review.

03
Documentation Standards

What to record, how to record it, and what the file needs to contain when someone outside your organization reviews it. The difference between a defensible investigation file and a liability.

04
Bias Mitigation

How cognitive bias enters investigations and how to design it out — at intake, during interviews, and through the analysis and reporting stages.

Any function that carries investigative responsibility — and needs consistent methodology to back it up

HR & Employee Relations

Professionals conducting workplace investigations who need defensible methodology and documentation standards that hold up in employment litigation.

Legal & Compliance

Teams managing internal matters who need investigative rigor that supports privilege, satisfies regulatory expectations, and delivers findings counsel can rely on.

Security

Operational security professionals who need investigative methodology that produces findings usable beyond the security function — including by legal, HR, and senior leadership.

Quality & Regulatory Affairs

Functions with investigative responsibilities in regulated environments where findings may be reviewed by FDA, ISO auditors, or other external bodies.

Rick Schumacher — Founder & Principal

Certified Fraud Examiner  ·  PEACE Investigative Interviewer  ·  30 Years in Investigations

Investigator training is only as good as the experience behind it. This curriculum was built from thirty years of leading real investigations — in military intelligence, government enforcement, and Fortune 500 corporate environments — where findings had consequences and methodology failures had costs.

That practitioner background shapes every module: not what investigations should look like in theory, but what makes them hold up when they're challenged.

CertificationCertified PEACE Investigative Interviewer
CertificationCertified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Advisory BoardISO/TS 370008 Internal Investigations Standard

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