The Bending Steel Podcast: Conversations with Leaders Shaping the Future with Dr. Antonio Oftelie
This podcast looks at breakthrough ideas and innovations, and gets in the trenches with real life leaders to show how they think about and move forward innovation and change. These leaders and organizations are breaking from hardened ways of working and, as like bending steel, transforming their approaches to deliver breakthrough outcomes and value.
The Bending Steel Podcast: Conversations with Leaders Shaping the Future with Dr. Antonio Oftelie
Chief Scott Thomson and the Transformation of the Camden Police Department
Organizational transformation is a tall order in today’s turbulent world. In policing, it’s even more challenging. Yet, there are powerful examples of progress that show how leaders can create an environment for innovation and guide people and stakeholders through to successful transformation.
In this episode of the Chief Growth Officer Podcast, Scott Thomson, former police chief of Camden, New Jersey shares his unique perspective on what it takes to move a policing organization through phases of innovation and change, and how lessons learned can be applied to organizations of all types. His insights and experience will spark responses to the following questions:
- How do you balance responding to urgent daily needs, while creating a new organization?
- Are there ways to pace innovation so that people and teams can sustain progress?
- How can you build a new mindset and culture over time?
- What do leaders need to do to prepare themselves?