Keith Bushey

Keith Bushey

Keith Bushey

Keith Bushey retired from the Los Angeles Police Department as a commander, from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy chief and from the United States Marine Corps Reserve as a colonel. Other law enforcement experience includes having served as a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff, a state of California deputy game warden and the marshal of San Bernardino County. He is an instructor emeritus for the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association and has lectured and written extensively in the areas of leadership, management and ethics. His entire eight-booklet Leadership Series is in the public domain and may be downloaded without cost from KeithBushey.com. He may be contacted at kdbs255@aol.com.

Leadership without the family factor is not leadership

Leadership without the family factor is not leadership

March 10, 2025

Editor’s note: This article, reprinted with permission, originally appeared in the winter 2003 edition of the FBI-LEEDA INSIGHTER magazine. Whether the head of the organization or the newest hire, those […] Read More

Prozac saved my career, and possibly my life

Prozac saved my career, and possibly my life

January 23, 2025

This article is not something that I enjoyed writing, and it’s something that I certainly would not have even considered when I was still in the professional arena, as it […] Read More

Identifying your <em>truly</em> defining experiences

Identifying your truly defining experiences

December 30, 2024

There are a great many factors that collectively — to one degree or another — shape the person we ultimately become: good, bad or otherwise. These obvious factors include, but […] Read More

Beware of crooks within your migrant communities

Beware of crooks within your migrant communities

November 25, 2024

Our country is a nation of immigrants, and unless you are a Native American, you are a product of people who came from other countries in search of a better […] Read More

Recognizing and addressing the issue of leaders in cognitive decline

Recognizing and addressing the issue of leaders in cognitive decline

October 21, 2024

I have long said that to the extent I have any wisdom, most of it is the consequence of my mistakes and my abundance of scar tissue. This article reflects […] Read More

Anticipating future consequences

Anticipating future consequences

September 27, 2024

Everybody has a favorite word that sums up their value system, and mine is consequences. Along with that, my favorite expression is “Look over the horizon and try to anticipate […] Read More