Randy McAlister took over as Chief Executive Officer for Crisis Consulting International (CCI) in July 2024 after volunteering with the organization since 2015 and retiring from a career in law enforcement in March of 2024. CCI is a non-profit that provides crisis and hostage/kidnapping consulting services, management and training to the international faith-based humanitarian, aid, and missions community. He is also owner of McAlister Threat Management which provides threat assessment and management consulting and training.

In his twenty-six-year law enforcement career Randy McAlister held many assignments and retired as a Captain/Deputy Director of Public Safety for the Cottage Grove (MN) Police Department in charge of investigations and threat management. Throughout his career he served as a patrol officer/paramedic, investigator, detective sergeant, and fourteen year county-wide multijurisdictional SWAT team member where he retired as a team commander.

Mr. McAlister has been a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) since 2010 and focused the second half of his law enforcement career on targeted violence prevention and criminal investigations. He has conducted hundreds of hours of training around the country for multi-disciplinary audiences in the areas of stalking investigations & management, domestic violence management, workplace violence prevention, K-12 education and higher education violence prevention, and active and mass shooting prevention. Additionally, in 2015, he co-founded the first community-based multi-disciplinary threat assessment team in Minnesota and the Dakotas. In that same year, he became one of the first Certified Threat Managers in the country through ATAP. In 2017, Mr. McAlister started one of the first department-based threat management units in the state as well as one of the early police patrol crisis intervention units in the state with CIT trained officers.

During the last three and a half years of his law enforcement career, Mr. McAlister served as a task force officer (TFO) with FBI-Minneapolis’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). In this role, he served as the field office’s Threat Management Coordinator (TMC) Liaison implementing the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU-1)/Behavioral Threat Assessment Center’s (BTAC) Threat Assessment & Threat Management (TATM) program. The TATM program was designed to proactively identify potential cases of terrorism and targeted violence and interrupt the subject’s movement toward violence by leveraging local partnerships and local interventions. In addition, since 2021, he has been a Master Trainer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Threat Evaluation & Reporting (NTER) program.

Prior to starting in law enforcement in 1998, Mr. McAlister worked for eight years as an emergency medical technician and paramedic at Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s (Minneapolis, MN) emergency department and also with North Ambulance (Minneapolis, MN)—an urban, level 1 trauma center ambulance service.

Randy holds a Master of Arts degree from Concordia University (St. Paul, MN) in criminal justice leadership, a Bachelor of Arts in organizational studies from Bethel University (Arden Hills, MN) and an Intensive Care Paramedic certificate from Century College (White Bear Lake, MN).