“Everything rises and falls on leadership”
- John Maxwell
“Leadership rises and falls on behavior”
- Ed Pallas
Dr. Edward Pallas is an expert in organizational leadership, communication, and emotional intelligence. He is a captain with the Montgomery County Department of Police (MCP), in Maryland, where he has served for 25 years. He is currently the Director of the Major Crimes Division for MCP. Captain Pallas is also a member of his department’s Emergency Response Team, where he has served as a Conflict/Hostage negotiator for the last 15 years.
Captain Pallas earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, his Master of Science in Management from Johns Hopkins University, and his Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership and Innovation from Wilmington University.
Ed is a certified speaker, trainer, and coach for the John Maxwell Team, a certified Human Behavior Consultant with Personality Insights Inc., and a certified International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Master Instructor in the Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO) program.
Having taught thousands of law enforcement and private-sector professionals from the United States, Canada, Iraq, the Saudi Arabia, and Armenia, Dr. Pallas is skilled in the Socratic method. He strives to keep his students engaged and eager to learn. His teaching experience includes many other courses he developed and taught to government agencies and academic institutions. He currently teaches leadership and psychology courses at the undergraduate and graduate/ Doctoral levels.
His beautiful wife and three daughters keep him busy, but Ed does publish the occasional article in Police Chief Magazine and PoliceOne.com. While not engaged in leadership learning or training Ed strives to be an average Crossfitter and to keep up with his wife and 16-year old daughter, both of whom are fierce Crossfit competitors.
To learn more about how Edward and his team can serve you, call 301-500-8528 or contact us today.
Testimonials
Ed Pallas is and has become an ever increasingly bulwark in our great region, and has helped many on the road to achieving their own success from which they all come to learn of this thing called leadership! The quest to understand leadership is not new, but ed has delved into the intrinsic and sublime of this wonderful study and emerged with an often unique and certainly elucidating perspective of this wonderful subject and has himself emerged victorious in his own personal quest to understand this subject and make us all better leaders in our own respective right! All those who have had the opportunity to sit under his tutelage emerge themselves from the void of understanding this subject to a newly found appreciation for the man and for this great and wonderful subject.
Many thanks to the man for his joy of learning, for his lifelong desire for a better understanding of this great subject and Aldo for his never-ending effort to share his findings with our region and with us all!
Ed was very personable and engaging and it was clear that he had a passion for sharing his leadership knowledge. Ed is a subject matter expert in leadership and police culture and I was honored to learn from him. I greatly enjoyed Ed's teaching style and his ability to relate the material to real life scenarios. I highly recommend Ed as a leadership expert. My biggest takeaway from Ed was that we must all be lifelong students of leadership.
