Advantage Risk Consulting AdvantageRisk Consulting
Vigilance · Preparedness · Courage · Resilience · Transparency

Prepare today, secure tomorrow.

Advantage Risk Consulting is a co-owned risk and security consulting firm working across the Wichita and Phoenix metros — helping houses of worship, schools, healthcare and care facilities, and businesses identify threats, build emergency plans, and train their people to respond with confidence.

Practical protection for the organizations that hold communities together.

We bridge the gap between large national consultancies and one-person shops — pairing deep, hands-on expertise in physical threat assessment with customized, actionable plans your team can actually use when it matters most.

Our Mission

"To empower organizations with the knowledge, plans, and preparedness to effectively mitigate risk, respond to threats, and remain resilient through crisis."

Our Vision

"To become a leading security risk consulting firm recognized for innovative, practical, and effective risk management solutions tailored to diverse organizational needs."

Our values

01

Vigilance

We stay alert to emerging threats, so small warning signs are caught before they become tragedies.

02

Preparedness

Readiness is a discipline, not an afterthought. We plan before the crisis arrives.

03

Courage

We help leaders identify and confront risk and act decisively to protect their people and organization.

04

Resilience

We build organizations that absorb a crisis, recover quickly, and come back stronger.

05

Transparency

Clear scope, honest findings, and open communication at every step.

A full suite of risk and safety services

All-Hazard Risk Assessments
Emergency Response Planning
Active Threat Training
Stop the Bleed Workshops
Crisis Leadership Development
Security Design (CPTED)
Tabletop & Live Drills
Retainer Consulting

Built by practitioners, for the people on the front line.

Advantage Risk Consulting is a co-owned Kansas Limited Liability Company, founded and run by two practitioners on a simple belief: every organization deserves access to expert, practical security guidance — not just the ones with enterprise budgets. Both founders carry client work directly, from the walk-through to the plan to the training. We partner with leadership and frontline staff to turn risk plans into genuine operational readiness.

Mark Filler

Mark Filler

Co-Founder & Principal Consultant

Mark Filler is a co-founder of Advantage Risk Consulting and a public safety and risk management professional with more than two decades of experience in law enforcement command, SWAT operations, and emergency management. He helps schools, universities, and organizations plan for high-risk public events, develop comprehensive safety plans, and train staff to prevent and respond to critical incidents — building safer campuses and communities through practical, proven risk management strategies.

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Rob Gabrych

Rob Gabrych

Co-Founder & Principal Consultant

Rob Gabrych is a co-founder of Advantage Risk Consulting and a security and risk management professional with more than three decades of experience in military, law enforcement, executive protection, and corporate security. He helps organizations identify vulnerabilities, strengthen emergency preparedness, reduce workplace violence risks, and build safer environments through practical assessments, customized training, and proven risk management strategies.

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Services

Every engagement is scoped to your organization's size, complexity, and risk profile. Click any service to see what's included. Pricing is tailored to each engagement — book a free consultation for a custom quote.

On-site evaluation identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and risks, delivered as a clear risk-score report.

What’s included
  • All-Hazard Threat & Risk Assessment
  • CPTED Analysis
  • Cultural & Regional Risk Reviews

Compliance-focused, customized plans built to national standards for all hazards and specific threats.

What’s included
  • NIMS/ICS-Compliant Emergency Response Plans (all hazards)
  • Threat-Specific Response Plans

Active shooter, lockdown, and evacuation procedures tailored to your facility and staff.

Active-shooter deterrence and response training for staff and leadership.

What’s included
  • Stop the Bleed & Casualty Triage
  • Tabletop Exercises
  • Role-Specific Training

Role-specific, hands-on training and drills built around your team and operations.

What’s included
  • De-escalation Techniques
  • Situational Awareness
  • Team Leader Development
  • Hostile Work Environment Training
  • Stop the Bleed & Casualty Triage
  • Workplace Violence Training
  • Threat Preparation & Mitigation Training

Tabletop exercises and live drills that pressure-test your plans against real scenarios.

Equipping leaders to lead through crisis, protect reputation, and build organizational resilience.

Surveillance, access control, and layout using CPTED principles aligned to your mission.

Retainer · Basic

Ongoing assessments, annual plan refresh, and email support for smaller organizations.

Custom pricing
Retainer · Advanced

Quarterly on-site reviews, training refreshers, and priority response.

Custom pricing
Retainer · Premium

Comprehensive continuous monitoring, full training calendar, and crisis on-call.

Custom pricing
Every new client begins with a complimentary 30-minute virtual consultation to assess preliminary needs. Referral clients receive a discount on their next engagement.

Same method every time. Never the same report.

Every organization we serve already has someone carrying safety — a facilities director, a volunteer safety lead, a school resource officer, an office manager who happens to be the one who thinks about it. We come alongside that person. We don’t take over. Below is what that looks like in each of the sectors we work in, and the funding or compliance deadline that usually makes now the right time.

Houses of worship

Openness is theological. Our job is to protect it, not to end it. Nearly everything we recommend is invisible from a pew.

Church & congregation security →

Educational organizations

Your staff will execute the plan, not us. That’s exactly why they help write it — and why we debrief every drill.

School emergency planning →

Senior living & care facilities

Your residents cannot evacuate themselves. A summer power failure is not a facilities problem — it’s a life-safety problem.

Care facility preparedness →

Hospitals & clinics

You already have to run the exercise. The only question is whether it produces anything you can use afterward.

Healthcare preparedness →

Small business

You don’t need a security department. You need about six decisions made in advance, in writing, with names on them.

Workplace violence & continuity →

Insurers, brokers & risk pools

Your loss-control team can’t be everywhere. We’re the local hands that close the recommendations you’ve already made.

Referral partnerships →

Why preparation isn’t optional.

The threats facing houses of worship, schools, health facilities, and businesses are real, rising, and well-documented — and most organizations are underprepared. Here is what the data shows, and why a plan and trained people change the outcome.

$200,000available per site through the FEMA Nonprofit Security Grant Program — and the application requires a documented vulnerability assessment (FEMA NSGP)
RequiredArizona schools must maintain an emergency operations plan meeting state minimum requirements, including a hazard assessment and annexes (A.R.S. § 15-341)
Twice a yearInpatient healthcare facilities must exercise their emergency plan annually — one full-scale, one of choice (CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule)
10–15 minActive-assailant events often end before law enforcement arrives. What your people do in that window is the plan (FBI)

Concern is not a plan

  • Almost nobody fails to prepare because they don’t care. They fail because safety is enormous, nobody tells them where to start, and the block of time it seems to require never arrives.
  • Ask three questions of the plan you already have. Does it name people who currently work here? Does it describe the building you currently occupy? Has anyone practiced any part of it in the last twelve months?
  • If any answer is no, that isn’t a failure. It’s the starting line — and now you know where it is.

Violence reaches every kind of organization

  • About 2 million American workers experience workplace violence each year; homicide is the leading cause of on-the-job death for women. (OSHA / BLS)
  • Domestic violence follows victims to work — roughly 1 in 4 workplace-violence events are domestic-related, and DV is tied to about half of U.S. mass shootings.
  • Churches, schools, day cares, and businesses are all workplaces — none are exempt.

Active-assailant attacks are a standing threat

  • The FBI logged 223 active-shooter incidents in 2020–2024 — a 70% jump over the prior five years. (FBI)
  • They struck commerce, schools, houses of worship, and government — the exact places we serve.
  • Most are over within minutes, long before police arrive — on-site readiness decides the outcome.

Medical emergencies don’t wait for EMS

  • About 10,000 sudden cardiac arrests happen at work each year — roughly 13% of all workplace deaths. (OSHA)
  • Survival drops about 10% every minute without CPR or an AED; EMS often takes 7–10 minutes.
  • Trained staff and a rehearsed plan are frequently the difference between life and death.

Preparation works — the evidence is clear

  • The U.S. Secret Service studied 67 school-attack plots stopped before anyone was harmed — in nearly every case, someone noticed a warning sign and reported it. (U.S. Secret Service NTAC)
  • The FBI credits alert bystanders and prepared citizens with ending a meaningful share of active-shooter incidents.
  • Threat assessment, planning, and training don’t just answer crises — they prevent them.

Resilience & reputation are on the line

  • One unmanaged incident can bring lawsuits, OSHA “General Duty Clause” liability, lost staff and customers, and lasting reputational harm.
  • Insurers, boards, and families increasingly judge organizations by how prepared they are — not just how they react.
  • Preparedness protects your people first — and your mission, continuity, and reputation right behind them.

You don’t have to build this alone.

A single assessment is the fastest way to see where you stand — and what to fix first.

Sources: OSHA · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · FEMA · FBI Active Shooter Incident Reports · U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center · CDC. Figures are the most recent available and provided for general awareness.

Safety Readiness Check

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