Why I Brought In an Executive Coach
A city manager's question changed the direction of an entire career. It wasn't about command experience. It was about who was developing the leader everyone assumed already had it figured out.
Technically Excellent, Relationally Absent
An audit shows what happened — not what you missed. Explore the gap between technical competence and people leadership, and why it matters.
Retention Is a Culture Problem Wearing a Staffing Costume
Retention gets talked about as a hiring problem. In most organizations — mine included — it starts as a leadership one, long before it ever reaches HR.
Flock Safety and the Leadership Test No Police Chief Can Outsource
A Flock Safety camera helped catch a shooter. A misused database has ended careers. Both are true, and the difference between them is leadership, not technology.
The Job Changed Overnight — Did Your Leadership?
The profession changed overnight, but leadership didn’t. Issue 1 explores what it takes to lead people through rapid, external change.
What Would you do if you were in my shoes?
Why does a Chief of Police still lace up 'shiny shoes' every morning? A lesson in thinking one level up — and what it really takes to lead before you have the title.
Telling Your Story as a Leader: Lessons from Gettysburg and Modern Policing
What does a Civil War general at Gettysburg have to do with modern policing? A lesson in why leaders have an obligation to tell their own story — before someone else tells it for them.
Why I wear One Star
Why does a police chief wear only one star when others wear four or five? For me, the answer has nothing to do with tradition — and everything to do with how I believe leadership should work.