Lee Fjelstad is an international trainer with a professional background including twenty-five years of speaking and training experience interacting with audiences in a highly animated, humorous, thought provoking, and entertaining  presenter.  He has instructed audiences on Verbal Judo in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and in England.

Lee has been interviewed regarding Verbal Judo as the subject of magazine articles ranging in interest from Conde Nast Traveler and Broker Magazine to sports publications like Referee Magazine, and in newsprint articles from the USA Today and the Wall Street Journal to small town newspapers. He has been seen and heard internationally on CNN, nationally on NBC, ABC, and Fox, in Canada on the CBC, and on local television and radio across North America and in Europe.

Lee has a professional background that includes over five years as a Operations Shift Supervisor for a $130 million computer research and development facility working with classified materials, and an additional six years of work for the Federal Government protecting nuclear weapons systems and assets. He has also been a reserve police officer in New Mexico, has trained close quarter combat to the US military, and self-defense and defensive tactics to police, corrections, probation and parole, and military law enforcement officers, and close quarter combat to military forces in Europe. His continued instruction to federal and local government agencies in self-defense and protections filled a gap in defensive tactics programs as well as Lee creating civilian programs for corporations, women’s groups, and the airlines.

Lee has instructed martial arts classes and self defense seminars for over twenty-five years and retains 2nd degree black belt ratings in Shotokan (Japanese) and Tae Kwon Do (Korean) karate. He has also trained in Hapkido, Combat Judo, Arnis, and Aikido. His educational background includes degrees in English, Business, and Organizational Communication with additional work in Psychology and Behavioral Science. Lee, Dr. Thompson, and Mr. Andy Sanano, a noted master martial artist from Rapid City, South Dakota, Lee created and developed an instructional video on self-defense for adults and children called The Total Defense System,” combining protective personal defense techniques with the tactics and strategies of Verbal Judo which sold internationally.

In contrast to his physical training background Lee now spends over 250 days per year traveling and teaching audiences to communicate effectively using the techniques and strategies of Verbal Judo. His client list ranges from corporate and customer service industries, city and county government employees, to airlines, banking and real estate operations. His audiences now number several hundred thousand people attending his Verbal Judo lectures world-wide.  As an Associate of Verbal Defense and Influence a new battery of programs are on the horizon including what will be an internationally recognized program to reduce bullying and harassment.