The BEST CPR SEATTLE Team
Our senior instructors offer more than 75 years teaching experience.
We all love working with our amazing clients!
We all love working with our amazing clients!
Farley KautzFounder / Executive Director
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Whitney SmithHealthcare Provider R.N.
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David JohnsonEducation Director
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Lea HoffmanCertified Instructor
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Farley started BestCPRSeattle in 2007 with the goal of customizing every class to the individual needs of his clients. His unique entrepreneurial background includes operating leadership programs for private schools and creating wilderness education programs for high school and college aged students.
Farley has spent much of his life guiding three to four week expeditions across the western United States backpacking, climbing, and rafting the mountains, canyons, and rivers of Colorado, Utah, and Alaska. With 35 years experience teaching Wilderness First Aid, Backcountry Survival, and the essential basics of bystander First Aid and CPR, Farley loves building lasting relationships with BestCPRSeattle clients and still teaches almost daily. He will do his best to make your training educational, empowering, and FUN! |
Whitney's superhero status as an Trauma Room Nurse in the Harborview Emergency Department keeps her more than busy, but she loves teaching Healthcare Provider CPR as often as she can. Drawing from years of experience in the professional medical community as well as her military training, Whitney's classes are detailed, current and highly educational.
As an world traveler, with vast experience in different cultures, including extended time in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, Whitney's students consistently rate her the most encouraging and knowledgeable instructor they have ever met! In her few off moments, Whitney loves hiking with her dogs...and occasionally she takes her husband along too. |
We are proud to announce David's promotion to Education Director. Since 2002, David has taught classes to more than 15000 people in Seattle.
With a Masters degree in Education from Pacific Lutheran University, David has spent most of his life teaching and coaching including 12 years teaching adults in the medical field. An avid baseball fan, David has also coached high school baseball and been a conditioning specialist for more than 25 years. He's the #1 requested trainer in our lineup, with a comedic wit and complimentary nature, if you ask anyone in Seattle who taught them how to save lives, they probably remember David! Even his own kids call him "Coach". |
Lea is an experienced and dedicated teacher, currently finishing her Masters in Education. She teaches basic First Aid and CPR classes with a flair.
Also acting Medical Assistant Program Director at Renton Techical College, Lea brings wide experience to her teaching from the healthcare perspective. She'll bring plenty of enthusiasm and passion for teaching to your class, making sure your experience with BESTCPRSEATTLE is practical, engaging, and very FUN! |
