Adam Wilson, author of Tactical Reload: Strategy Shifts for Emerging Leaders in Law Enforcement.
Wilson is a highly decorated police veteran with more than 15 years on the job. He’s best known as the voice of the millennial generation of police.
Adam, a once homeless high-school dropout, is now a highly decorated 15-year law enforcement veteran who was recognized in 2018 by the National Association of Police Organizations that sponsors the annual TOP COP Awards® for producing the top investigation in North Carolina.
Adam has served as a SWAT senior operator and also collaborated with federal authorities in cases involving public corruption, sexual exploitation of minors and corrupt organizations. He received a masters degree from East Carolina and was selected as an emerging leader in North Carolina.
Adam Wilson, a once homeless high-school dropout, is now a highly decorated 14-year law enforcement veteran who was recognized in 2018 by the National Association of Police Organizations that sponsors the annual TOP COP Awards® for producing the top investigation in North Carolina. And in addition to all of that is he also the author of Tactical Reload: Strategy Shifts for Emerging Leaders in Law Enforcement.
-Being a high school drop-out
-Growing up with one kidney and how it was different for me
-Why I wrote the book
-Leaving home very young living in a trailer with no power, working sewage, or furniture.
-Getting into policing
-Finding success through failures-Don’t be afraid to be embarrassed
-Post-Ferguson effects on staffing
-Psychological tests and mental health in policing
-Millennials have generational differences, but which generation isn’t different than the ones before
-3 steps to leadership for someone young in their career
-Leadership should be from a place of servitude not authority
