Faculty

For 36 years, Dave has worked with more than 350 agencies worldwide, supporting public safety and the communities they serve. A former police commander, Dave has a Masters in Organizational Leadership and a Doctorate in Adult Education. Dave served as the Executive Director for RULETC (Rural Law Enforcement Technology Center), a U.S. Department of Justice project that provided technology research, testing, evaluation, and support to law enforcement agencies across the United States. He has embedded with major US public safety agencies as their resident leadership consultant. Blending research and behavioral science with real-world experience, Dave loves working with agencies to build and sustain healthy cultures. Dave is the Director of Authentic & Deliberate Leadership: The West Point Way and is a subject matter expert and contributor on leadership and cultivating healthy organizational cultures.

Facilitator

Rod Covey is the Chief of Police for the Port of Seattle having assumed that position after serving almost eight years as one of the department’s deputy chiefs.  He previously served 32 years with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS).  He worked his way up through the ranks serving in the Highway Patrol, Narcotics Investigations, and Training.  Once he reached the rank of Captain, he spent time in various leadership positions including assignments as the Commander of the Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy, the Chief of Staff for the Director of Public Safety, the Chief of the Highway Patrol, the Assistant Director of Operations and the Assistant Director overseeing the Agency Support Division.

He has served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training (AZ POST) Board and the Director of the AZ Regional Community Policing Institute.  He finished his time in Arizona as Director of the Center for Leadership Excellence at AZ POST.

Rod has brought his extensive experience and expertise in leadership and organizational development to classrooms, universities and organizations nationwide having trained and coached thousands of new and experienced leaders. He has worked with hundreds of federal, state, county and city agencies to include the Washington State Patrol, Pentagon Force Protection and the United States Capitol Police. Among the many courses he has developed and taught for over 38 years are lessons on performance management, leading change, coaching and mentoring, followership, transformational leadership and the leader’s role in creating and maintaining an ethical culture.  For the past 11 years, he has been a featured presenter at the FBI’s Command College for Washington State and at IACP’s annual conferences.   In 2019 he returned to the law enforcement speaking circuit with presentations around the country to include the FBI National Academy Associates Conference in Phoenix and the Vision 2029 Conference in Milwaukee.