Episodios

  • Chief Bisa French- Connecting, Engaging and Community Policing
    May 31 2024
    Join us today with guest Chief Bisa French for an in depth discussion on connecting, engaging, and the new era of community policing in Richmond, CA just 16 miles northeast of San Francisco. Richmond boasts a great diversity of backgrounds with over 180 different ethnic or cultural origins including- from largest to smallest populations, Chinese, Filipino, English, Hong Konger, Scottish, Indian, Canadian, Irish, Taiwanese, and German ( as of July 2023). 54% of the population identifies as Chinese, while 80.3% is visibly a minority which is only second to British Columbia. This population also includes Black, Arab, Latin American and Korean residents. With such a vast and diverse community the Richmond Police Department strives to balance the needs of both it’s service providers and those they serve in an evolving environment of rapid growth and rising crime. Chief French is an early adopter of resilience and wellness platforms like Rippleworx to support these needs. Thanks to their community partners, at RPD they just celebrated a successful police week and continue to be a leader in their industry reducing crime and suppressing violent crimes in particular while leveling up their leadership, team work and collaboration as a department. Chief French shares insights and a view of the future in law enforcement and public safety from the first female, Latino Chief in Richmond, CA with more than 23 years on the force in today’s episode.
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  • Leading Like A Coach: Sam Spiegel
    May 24 2024
    Chief Spiegel is recognized as a highly successful leader, trainer, executive coach and problem solver with visionary organizational and leadership development skills. His focus on wellness, cultural transformation and risk management surround the mantra of the National Command and Staff College, to Inspire, Educate, Impact and Transcend.
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  • Understaffed and Exhausted: Getting your team motivated
    May 17 2024
    Hi Nguyen is a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with 14 years of experience in patrol, close protection, counter-terrorism and undercover operations. He is currently the Director of Protection Services for a large Canadian university. In his 20 years of experience in this industry he’s witnessed the impact of poor leadership at all rank levels: Burnouts, depressions, suicides. This is why he now spend all of my energy coaching the next generation of leaders. Showing them how to successfully lead teams, be recognized for their work and get promoted fast.
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  • National Tactical Officer Association's Don Kester
    May 10 2024
    Don served more than 23 years with the Pima County (AZ) Sheriff’s Department, retiring in 2015. His assignments with the department included training director, patrol district commander, special operations, tactical response and staff services section commander, as well as the support operations and criminal investigations division commander. He now leads NTOA’s Training and Education Department, as well as their prestigious cadre of instructors. He also manages NTOA training courses, seminars and conferences, as well as develop strategic plans to keep the NTOA at the forefront of law enforcement training and practices.
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  • Encore Dr. Amir Kfir - Nonflict: The Art of Everyday Peacemaking
    May 3 2024
    Dr. Amir Kfir is an organizational consultant and management change leader. For over 30 years he has been helping companies worldwide in organizational transformation and has been a leader in the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) forum methodology process. His global experiences have led him to gain a deep understanding of cultural and business diversity. Amir is known for his methodology of Nonflict which he spoke about in a TED talk in 2017. He is also the author of Nonflict: The Art of Everyday Peacemaking in which he offers practical tools and exercises for dealing with conflict.
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  • Capt. Michelle Rhone - Leading in the Law Enforcement Industry
    Apr 26 2024
    Captain Rhone has been an officer with the Hampton Police Division since June 2002. She has over twenty years of critical problem solving, strategic planning, decision making, and leading others in the law enforcement industry. Specific expertise in training and education, leadership development and human resource functions. Documented record of success solving workplace effectiveness problems through the development of systems, policies, and cultivating relationships., Records, Personnel & Recruiting, and the Training Academy where she was the Director. Most recently, she is the Deputy Branch Commander for Police Operations. Capt. Rhone serves as the Commander of the Crisis Negotiations team and is a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management team where she is a peer supporter.
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  • Paul Zalucky - A Day in the Life of a CIA Operations Officer
    Apr 19 2024
    Join us to hear Paul Zalucky talk about his 28-year career as a CIA Operations Officer overseas before retiring from its Executive Ranks. He will share his experiences as an Operations Officer in Moscow, the Subcontinent, the Middle East, Kyiv and Warsaw. Mr. Zalucky served in Moscow from 84-86 and was involved in the operations highlighted in David Hoffman’s book “Billion Dollar Spy.” Mr. Zalucky continues to conduct business in the central Europe, travels to Ukraine to assist with security and humanitarian projects and maintains an office in Warsaw.
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  • The Biology of Good and Evil: Paul Zak
    Apr 12 2024
    Find out why over 1M people view his TED Talks. Join us, especially if you're in Public Safety for a rare look at how extraordinary experiences shape us, our happiness, wellbeing and performance. Paul J. Zak is a professor at Claremont Graduate University and is ranked in the top 0.3% of most cited scientists with over 180 published papers and more than 19,000 citations to his research. Zak’s two decades of research have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Along the way he helped start a number of interdisciplinary fields including neuroeconomics, neuromanagement, and neuromarketing. He has written three general audience books and is a regular TED speaker. His latest book, Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and Source of Happiness (2022), identifies the neurologic basis for extraordinary experiences and uses 50,000 brain measurements to show readers how to create high-impact training among other benefits.
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