Guy Bliesner began his career in education in 1994 as a high school teacher and coach. Moving into administration in 2006 as the Safety and Security Coordinator for the Bonneville School District. While serving in that position he was named to the Idaho’s Governor’s School Safety Task Force. Also, during his Bonneville tenure, he was named a finalist for the 2011 Campus Safety Magazine’s national Campus Safety Director of the Year Award. In 2013 he left the district to form with a partner, the School Safety, Security, Risk Management consulting firm of Educators Eyes. This firm developed and implemented Idaho’s first statewide school safety and security condition assessment. In 2016 he dissolved the firm to join, as a founding member, the newly created Idaho Office of School Safety and Security.

He currently serves as the School Safety and Security Analyst assigned to schools in Southeast Idaho. He also serves as a board member for the National School Safety Center Asso. (NSSA), as Immediate Past President for the National Council on School Facilities (NCSF), a member and sub-committee chair for ASIS International’s Technical committee for the development of School Safety Standards and a founding Board member of the National School Safety Directors Association (NSSDA) and chairs their standards and certification committee, as a member of the ZeroNow advisory committee, and as a member of the advisory committee for the National Center for School Infrastructure. He is the inaugural Emily Parker National School Safety Leadership Award honoree. He writes and speaks widely on school safety and security topics. His passion and mission are to advocate nationally on issues of school safety and security and to support the public schools of southeast Idaho to help to bolster school safety through assessment, training, and planning assistance.