Our Founder

Mr. Grant's professional career can be defined as being rooted in Law Enforcement and Executive Leadership principles.   

During his time as a police officer, he served as a lead narcotics detective and as a Tactical Operations Team Leader. He spent 11 years as a police officer before leveraging that experience into a career in the private sector.    

Larry has proven success as a leader in the private sector ascending into the positions of 

• a corporate security consultant, 
• a security & compliance investigator, 
• an executive in physical security and safety and 
• a director of human resources and security operations.  

Mr Grant is paying forward what he learned through his career by helping others achieve success, offerring coaching services through Granting Avenues LLC. 

Through his research, experience, education and apprenticeship, Larry has established a three pillared approach to offer life coaching, career coaching and business strategy services: 

The first pillar, and primary mission, of Granting Avenues LLC is to guide clients in discovering their passions and providing tools to translate those passions into career goals utilizing its STEPS TO SUCCESS CAREER DISCOVERY PROGRAM.  

 The second pillar and is equally as important to Granting Avenues LLC is its dedication to the mission of assisting Law Enforcement Agencies in achieving the goal of connecting with the communities that they serve and focusing on being the trusted service provider to those communities.(See article published July 2016) Granting Avenues LLC utilizes its EIGHT ATES TO BEING A SUCCESSFUL AGENT OF CHANGE to guide law enforcement agencies in building community trust, tactful recruiting strategies and establishing a customer/service provider relationship.      

As its third pillar, Granting Avenues LLC also provides Life/Career/Business Coaching, utilizing its NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS (nguoyd) services. Clients in need of assistance in;  

                o Focusing 

                o Executing plans,  

                o Getting results 

                o Achieving success in their:  

                         personal life  

                         work life   

                         spiritual life 

                o Private setting 

                o Group setting  

                o Corporate setting   

Larry sits on the board of The Grant Career and Technical Education (GCTE) Center and offers the Granting Avenues-Steps to Success Career Discovery Program exclusively through GCTE. 

He has earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in Criminal Justice and a Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration. 

Mr. Grant was featured on Security Pro Insights Podcast  and was also featured on the "Stop Clowning Around" Video Series