Nicholas A. Sensley, Bsc., MBA

Chief (Ret.) Nicholas Sensley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for American Police Reform. The Institute for American Police Reform (IAPR) is a non-partisan agency providing guidance on policing laws and policies, leadership coaching, organization consulting, and standards and training development to state and local governments and the policing services they authorize and oversee. The IAPR goal is to ensure immutable regard for human dignity, inculcate a culture of servant leadership, and fortify citizens’ trust in police service across the United States.

Nicholas Sensley is a 22-year veteran consultant and developer. He is also the founder of Cross Sector Solutions LLC, a consortium of strategists, facilitators, and consultants from throughout the world who convene, facilitate, and support local, regional, and national coalitions of leaders in response to significant problems. He is also a former California police chief.

International

In addition to 25 years of diverse policing services among three California municipalities, Nicholas has served as a consultant and developer in the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and the South Caribbean. He specializes in strategic planning and development, leadership development, the emphasis and practice of principled governance (e.g., trustworthy service, ethical service, delegate service, adaptive service) and countering human atrocities through the formation of collective impact teams.  

Acknowledgements

Nicholas has developed leaders in more than a dozen countries and has built and facilitated multidisciplinary work groups and task forces in several countries and throughout the United States. He has been acknowledged as an international expert at developing strategic responses to human atrocities by the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, and by other international governments and organizations. He is the primary author of the first edition of the US Department of Justice’s “Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force Strategy and Operations e-Guide”. Nicholas has served as a member of the OVC/TTAC consultants’ groups since 2008.  

Nicholas has served as an instructor of leadership for the US Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime National Victim Assistance Academy and volunteers as a Team Director for the Pointman Leadership Institute, a nonprofit institute focusing on ethics and anti-corruption in police forces and governments through the world. He is a visiting lecturer at universities around the world and frequently at The West University of Timișoara, at Vasile Goldiș University Arad, and at Emanuel University Oradea in Romania. Nicholas has served as an appointed regional Human Rights Commissioner, volunteered on various community and international Boards of Directors, and served in the United States Army. He currently serves on the Global Board of Directors of the International Justice Mission (IJM), the world’s largest nongovernmental organization defending the world’s poorest and most vulnerable peoples against various forms of injustice, corruption, and exploitation in 17 countries.  

Education

Nicholas earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management and a Master of Business Administration and various professional certifications. He is currently a PhD student in international business management at the International School of Management (ISM) in Paris, France with a dissertation on the potential of Blockchain technology to transform humanitarian services and reduce commercialized human exploitation.