About Our Trainers
Meet The Off Leash K9 Team
Diana - Trainer
Diana is a graduate of North Carolina State University with dual degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. She has always loved dogs and started working with rescued German Shepherds in 2005. In 2010 she co-founded Southeast German Shepherd Rescue. Her newest addition is a Samoyed, Jojo, who she shows in conformation, takes hiking, and competes in a variety of activities such as barn hunt, fast cat, and therapy.
Alisa - Trainer
Alisa is a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in Business Management and a minor in Communications. Most of her professional background revolves around marketing. Alisa has always loved dogs and started working with rescued German Shepherds in 2006. In 2010, she helped co-found Southeast German Shepherd Rescue and remains on the board of the organization. Over the years she has worked with behavioral and medical cases of all types from high energy dogs to reactive dogs, to fearful dogs.
Kathryn - Trainer
Kathryn is a magna cum laude graduate of North Carolina State University with dual degrees in Animal Science and Zoology and a minor in Spanish. Kathryn spent much of her childhood riding horses, and although she did not grow up with dogs, she always enjoyed working and interacting with them. During her last 2 years of college she fostered and adopted out 24 pit bulls for the Wake County Animal Center. She continues to volunteer at the shelter in her free time. Kathryn has enjoyed incorporating dog psychology and obedience while working for Off Leash K9 Training and So Fetch K9 Adventure since December 2016.
Stefanie - Trainer
Stefanie has an extensive formal education in dog training and is a graduate of both Triple Crown Dog Academy and the Tom Rose School. After growing up on a farm on Wisconsin, she always knew she wanted to pursue a career with animals. Following graduation from Triple Crown Academy, Stefanie began her dog training career teaching group classes ranging from puppy obedience to agility, running a pet obedience program, and generalizing home obedience for personal protection dogs. Stefanie is passionate about bringing out the best in dogs and creating helping families create healthy relationships with their pets. In her spare time, she competes her dogs Ricco and Bolt in PSA.
Morgan - Trainer
Kaleigh - Trainer
Lesley - Trainer
Leslie grew up in Cary loving and working with animals. As an only child, she considered pets as her siblings and that’s where her love of animals began.
While studying at Meredith College, Leslie got the opportunity to work at the Wildlife Sydney Zoo in Sydney, Australia. There, Leslie had hands-on experience feeding and giving daily enrichment to a wide variety of animals as well as teaching patrons about them. After graduating in 2016 with a Bachelors in Psychology and a concentration in animal behavior, she has put her knowledge of animal behavior to use as vet assistant and dog trainer.
Leslie loves spending her free time checking out new restaurants and hanging out at the beach with her two German shepherds, Lyra and Vesper.
About Off Leash K9 Training
Dog Trainers that Are Recognized Around The World!
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Nick White is the Owner and Founder of Off Leash K9 Training. Nick is a former US Marine and former US Secret Service. He currently has over 130+ dog training locations throughout the United States.
Nick is globally recognized as being one of the top dog trainers in the world. He has 2 official world records in off leash obedience, named on Wikipedia as one of the top 20 dog trainers in the world, recently named top 10 trainer in the world by bestdogtrainers.org, has been featured in many magazines and shows, and he is regularly requested by the top celebrities and athletes! He has been called upon by people such as actor Ryan Reynolds, WWE’s John Cena, MLB All Star Max Scherzer, UFC World Champion Jon “Bones” Jones, and many more!
You can visit our YouTube Channel and watch over 1500+ before/after videos of Nick and his team’s work! Off Leash K9 Training has more documented videos than any dog training business in the entire world!