With over 15 years of professional training, behavior modification, and teaching experience, Emily Dombrowski is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant (CDBC) through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC), a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT), and holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

Emily Dombrowski is the Director of Training for the Service Dog Department at Southeastern Guide Dogs in Palmetto, FL. In her current role, Emily oversees all components of the Service Dog Program, including all aspects of dog training and placement, client coaching, and graduate services. 

Southeastern Guide Dogs transforms lives by creating extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs, training guide dogs and service dogs for people who are blind and for veterans, providing these exceptional dogs at no cost for qualified applicants.

Emily also serves as an Accreditation Assessor for Assistance Dogs International (ADI). ADI accredits not-for-profit programs that place assistance dogs to ensure that they adhere to the highest standards in all aspects of their operations, including ethical treatment and training of dogs, ethical treatment of clients, solid service dog training and follow-up care.

Some of Emily’s past professional experience with animal behavior includes working extensively as a trainer and behavior consultant for individuals, families, and rescue organizations, a role as the Animal Behavior Director at a large open-admission animal shelter, facilitating and overseeing a prison dog training program, and working for 7 years as a marine mammal trainer and educator at the Milwaukee County Zoo in Milwaukee, WI and at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, LA.

Emily has a true passion for the positive impact that behavior modification and the skilled application of training can have on the lives of animals and the people who love them.

She currently resides near the beach in St. Petersburg, FL with her husband and their three uniquely wonderful dogs.