Fred Leland

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fred T. Leland, Jr. is the Founder and Principal Trainer of LESC: Law Enforcement & Security Consulting (www.lesc.net). In addition to his work with LESC, Fred Leland is an active Lieutenant with the Walpole (Mass.) Police Department. He previously worked as a deputy with the Charlotte County (Fla.) Sheriff's Department and before that spent six years with the United States Marines, including as a squad leader in Beirut, Lebanon.

Leland is an accomplished trainer with more than 28 years experience teaching law enforcement, military, and security professionals. His programs of instruction include handling dynamic encounters; threat assessment; non-verbal communications; decision making under pressure; evolving threats; violence prevention; firearms; use of force; officer created jeopardy and adaptive leadership. He is also a 2004 graduate of the FBI National Academy Class 216, and a current instructor for the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee. Outcomes based training and education (OBTE) is his approach to creating and nurturing decision makers to observe, orient, decide, and act while considering consequences.

Fred is a highly respected leader, facilitator, and initiator. Aligning twenty-eight years of executive-level leadership, education, and training with the enforcement, administration, and influential qualities necessary to produce a cohesive task force. The quintessential representation of whom, what, and how a senior level official disseminates their own devotion and passion to continuous learning across all skill levels. These qualities and organizational achievements have been refined in both the public and private sector.