Clues of Leadership

Dr. Rhonda Glover Reese is a retired FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge, executive leadership coach, founder of Noble Youth, and one of the most direct leadership voices in public safety today. She joined the FBI as a switchboard operator, spent four years in pre-agent positions, and built a career that spanned counterintelligence, undercover drug investigations across the U.S. and abroad, and...

Larry L. Johnson is the Director of Public Safety for the Johns Hopkins Health System — one of the largest and most complex healthcare security operations on the East Coast. His career spans the Orlando Police Department, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, and the Defense Intelligence Agency OIG. In this episode of Clues of Leadershi...

Colonel Orlando Lilly — head of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police and 32-year law enforcement veteran — sits down with host Dominick Watters for a direct, detailed conversation on the realities of leadership in public safety. The episode begins where his career did: a 1979 hospital room, a box cutter wound that nearly killed a 10-year-old boy, and a police officer who showed up a...

Lt. Juan Morales has 17.5 years on the job with the Charles County Sheriff's Office in Southern Maryland. He is the first Latino lieutenant, a former traffic unit commander, and the current deputy director of the Southern Maryland Criminal Justice Academy. His father served 30 years in law enforcement. Leadership runs in the family — but it was tested hard. In this episode, Morales discusses what...

Sheriff John Carr served 26 years in the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office before being elected to lead it. In this episode, he delivers unfiltered insight into what most people get wrong about leadership: it's not about rank, politics, or paychecks. It's about developing those who come after you and serving citizens who don't care if you're exhausted. Carr shares why he hand-selects leaders...

Captain Deneisha Seaman is the first Black female captain in the history of the Baltimore County Police Department. In this conversation, she identifies humility as the most overlooked trait in law enforcement supervision—and the one constant across her 16-year career. Seaman discusses how humility allowed her to stay coachable, receive criticism, and grow under leaders who pushed her past her com...

Most leaders talk about servant leadership. Deputy Chief Tim White lives it. During a snowstorm, while officers and public works staff worked 18-hour shifts, White quietly stepped outside and emptied overflowing trash cans himself. No announcement. No speech. Just action. Staff later photographed it and saved it. That moment captures the difference between rank and leadership. Tim White serves as...

Join us for the premiere episode of Clues of Leadership, where we sit down with Dr. Michelle Milam, Chief of Police for Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration and a 37-year law enforcement veteran. Dr. Milam shares powerful insights from her journey through Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, where she retired as a lieutenant, and her continued impact as an associate professor train...

Leadership isn’t accidental. It leaves clues. In this official trailer for Clues of Leadership, host Dominick introduces the vision behind the podcast and the standard it represents. This is not surface-level conversation. This is not résumé recitation. Clues of Leadership is a platform for real dialogue with chiefs, commanders, executives, and high-stakes decision-makers who have led through pres...