Michael Floyd

Mike Floyd provides training and consulting services for local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies; high net-worth families; and large corporations and firms throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on interviewing, detection of deception, and elicitation in cases involving criminal activity, personnel screening, and national security issues.

Mike is the founder of Advanced Polygraph Services, where he spent 10 years conducting high-profile interviews and interrogations for law enforcement agencies, law firms, and private industry. During this period, he also worked with Wicklander & Zulawski as a lead instructor on detection of deception, interviewing, and interrogation, training hundreds of law enforcement officers throughout the United States. He has most recently been involved in providing training and consulting services in the areas of detection of deception and information collection to firms in the financial services and audit communities.

Mike began his career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Military Police, serving in the U.S. and Asia. After spending six years on the staff of John E. Reid and Associates as a polygrapher and instructor on detection of deception, interviewing, and interrogation, he served in both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Throughout a career that has spanned more than 35 years, he has conducted over 8,000 interviews and interrogations worldwide.

Mike is co-author of The New York Times bestsellers Spy the Lie and Get the Truth. A graduate of the University of South Dakota with a B.S. in Education, Mike holds an M.S. Degree in Detection of Deception from Reid College, and a JD Degree from Seattle University School of Law.