Meet our trainers
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Meet our trainers
A team page for dog training schools, grooming salons, vets and any pet business where owners want to know who will handle their animal. It opens with a full-width image hero, introduces the lead trainer with a longer story, shows the rest of the team as photo cards with specialties, sets out shared credentials and promises about training methods, and closes with a client quote and an invitation to book. The sample is a Raleigh dog training school. Swap in your own team photos, bios and certifications.
Meet the Good Dog Academy team
The people behind the treats
Certified, insured, endlessly patient and slightly obsessed with dogs. Every trainer on our team uses kind, reward-based methods, and only those.
Chris Nakamura
Founder and lead trainer. Certified professional dog trainer.
Founder and lead trainer
Chris Nakamura
Chris started training dogs as a volunteer at a Wake County shelter, where he spent six years helping hard-to-place dogs find homes. The dogs that came back were almost never bad dogs. They were dogs nobody had taught how to live with people.
He founded Good Dog Academy in 2015 to teach owners as much as their dogs. Today he leads our behavior program, teaches the advanced classes and records most of the lessons in our online Training Club.
Certified professional dog trainer, knowledge assessed
Certified in canine fear and reactivity
Pet first aid and CPR certified
Lives in Raleigh with Mochi, a 9-year-old black Lab who loves the mail carrier
The rest of the team
Each trainer leads classes and takes private clients in the areas they know best.
Tasha Reed
Behavior and reactivity specialist. Tasha works with fearful, reactive and newly adopted dogs, usually one-on-one. Before joining us in 2019 she was a veterinary technician for eight years. Certified behavior consultant.
Owen Fairbanks
Group class lead and sport trainer. Owen runs our Saturday group classes and the trick and agility workshops. He has trained and competed with his own shepherds for twenty years. Certified professional dog trainer.
Priya Shah
Puppy program coordinator. Priya teaches Puppy Foundations and our socialization field trips, and answers most of the puppy questions in the member forum.
Marcus Lee
Assistant trainer. Marcus helps in group classes and runs the Thursday evening drop-in. He is working toward his own certification this year.
Dana Whitaker
Client care. Dana handles bookings, vaccination records and the occasional escaped puppy at the front door. Call her on (555) 017-4410.
Our promises to you and your dog
Kind methods only
We use rewards, management and patience. We never use pain, fear or intimidation.
Always learning
Every trainer completes at least 20 hours of continuing education a year.
Honest advice
If your dog needs a vet or veterinary behaviorist, we will tell you and help you find one.
Fully insured
All trainers are insured, background checked and certified in pet first aid.
Tasha worked with our rescue, Biscuit, for four months. She never once made us feel like failures, even on the bad days. Biscuit now naps on the porch while kids walk by, which we never thought we would see.
Find the right trainer for your dog
Start with a free behavior assessment and we will match you with the trainer who fits best.
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