"If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it." John Lewis

TNG Consulting LLC is the risk management touchstone for thousands of schools, colleges, universities, and workplaces across the country. Since 2000, TNG, along with membership organizations the National Association for Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment (NABITA) and the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA), has been dedicated to empowering schools, colleges, workplaces, and organizations to create safer and healthier communities. We leverage hundreds of years of combined expertise in education-sector risk management to support clients in mitigating risk, advancing compliance, avoiding litigation, enhancing reputations, and preventing crises.

Brett A. Sokolow is recognized for his national leadership on systems-level solutions for safer schools and campuses and is widely considered one of the foremost Title IX experts in the nation. TNG Consulting, LLC (“TNG”) is a national multidisciplinary risk management consulting and law firm with more than 5,000 education-sector clients, 50 executive and support employees, and a roster of 25 attorneys and consultants who are at the forefront of the field in their areas of expertise.

With more than 25 years in the field, Brett has consistently innovated in his roles at TNG and its two industry associations, the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) and the National Association for Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment (NABITA).

Equity is more than a professional interest for Brett; it is a passionately held value system to which he has dedicated his career. In 2000, Brett founded TNG, then known as The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM), with the mission of impacting civil rights law to enact a positive change in the industry.

He currently chairs the boards of TNG and ATIXA. Brett ATIXA has more than 132,000 members and has provided more than 65,000 certifications to Title IX professionals across the US since 2012. Since June 2017, Sokolow has also led TNG’s west coast practice group in Los Angeles, California. Sokolow supports the Resolution Services Group at TNG by helping to oversees investigations and firm work as an external decision-maker for school and campus hearings. In addition to consulting for schools and colleges, Brett has served as an expert witness in more than 80 significant federal and state lawsuits affecting college, university, and school liability. Brett also leads the firm’s efforts to shape and address federal and state policy related to school and campus safety, violence prevention, and non-discrimination. Brett has served as both an interim Title IX Coordinator and an interim Title IX Case Manager for college clients.
In addition to his work on sex discrimination, civil rights, and the promotion of campus safety, he has deep expertise in campus conduct training and authoring codes of conduct. He has trained conduct administrators from over one thousand college campuses and created an Academy for advanced conduct training.

In 2009, he founded NABITA and served as Executive Director until 2015. He served as Board Chair until 2022. With TNG Managing Partner W. Scott Lewis, Brett pioneered the NABITA model for campus Behavioral Intervention Teams. He co-authored the validated NABITA Threat Assessment Tool, currently the most widely used campus risk assessment rubric.

Brett has been interviewed on CNN and featured in numerous media outlets, including Newsweek, TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, EdDive, District Administration, USA Today, and The Boston Globe. He has applied his expertise in various student affairs, preventative law, and risk management topics to hundreds of published articles, peer-reviewed journal publications, and 25 books.

Brett earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the College of William and Mary and a J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law.

Brett lives in Southern California, though he was born and raised in Philadelphia and New Jersey. His wife and two children have long-suffered with Title IX tales at the dinner table. In accordance with California law, Brett attempted to become a vegan, but has only unlocked Seagan status so far. He compensates for this weakness with regular Yoga and diligent compliance with the statewide Necktie Abolition Act. He enjoys tennis, hiking, pickleball, and escape rooms. His colleagues think that the ATIXA listserv is his third child, but he considers the listserv to be far needier than his biological offspring.