🚔 Police Chief (Ret.) 👮🏽‍♂️ Service, LION (Loyalty, Integrity, Optimism, Nobility.) - Ethics, Leadership 💡Regulator of Stress and Trauma. Laser-Focused on Micro-Behavior to mitigate Macro-Behavior. Employee Wellness, Developing Accountable Leaders with a H.E.A.R.T. of gold. I enter Clubhouse every so often as a sponge listening to phenomenal human beings sharing their wisdom and insight. I am an empathetic listener. EXPERIENCE 📌 Law Enforcement, 40 plus years 📌 City Manager 📌 Life & Leadership Coach 📌 U.S. DOJ Community Policing Divisions 📌 Community College adjunct professor 📌 Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 📌 Texas Police Chiefs Association Leadership Development and Training program consultant 📌 Texas Municipal League Leadership Consultant CURRENT 📌 Managing Principal, LION Organizational Development Institute 📌 Life & Leader Coach 📌 Board Member, The Narrative Enneagram 📌 Austin Community College Adjunct Professor What forces at work make us deny the significant threats that stare us in the face? And Why, after any major failure or calamity, do voices always emerge saying they’d seen the danger? Margaret Heffernan examines the intricate, pervasive cognitive and emotional mechanisms by which we choose, sometimes consciously but mostly not, to remain unseeing in situations where “we could know, and should know, but don’t know because it makes us feel better not to know.” Our blindness grows out of the small, daily decisions, which embed us more snugly inside our affirming thoughts and values. And what’s most frightening about this process is that as we see less and less, we feel more comfort and greater certainty. We think we see more — even as the landscape shrinks. Although some brain cognitive filtering is beneficial. An employee ethical compromise begins when leadership dismisses or condones minor infractions. LION can train your brain on WHEN NOT to be dismissive. The brain is a highly active and malleable learning machine. Neuroplasticity allows us to manage the nervous system in three critical areas within organizations: psychological safety, emotional well-being, and healthy work environments. The only way out is in! “KEEP YOUR BABY EYES (WHICH ARE THE EYES OF GENIUS) ON WHAT WE DON’T KNOW.” By Lincoln Steffens [email protected] www.thelion.institute