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2026 Conference InformationWHERE: Clearwater Beach, FL
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Jason Armstrong
Chief (Retired) Ferguson MO Police & CEO Armstrong Consulting, LLC
Jason P. Armstrong is a retired police chief and nationally recognized leader with over two decades of experience driving organizational transformation in high-stakes environments. Known for his award-winning approach to leadership and community engagement, Jason has built a career guiding organizations to address some of their most pressing challenges: breaking down silos, strengthening trust, aligning culture with strategy, and preparing leaders to deliver measurable results. Jason gained national recognition when appointed Police Chief in Ferguson, Missouri, five years after the police killing of Michael Brown Jr., where he led reform efforts to repair community trust in one of the most scrutinized cities in America. His exemplary contributions earned him induction into the National Law Enforcement Officer Hall of Fame. Jason’s insights have been featured on MSNBC, BET, CNN, ABC News, and CBS News, where he speaks on leadership, resilience, and transformation.
Today, as CEO of Armstrong Consulting, Jason partners with corporations, associations, public agencies, and community groups to equip leaders at all levels to tackle real-world challenges. His high-impact keynotes, workshops, and consulting engagements are designed to help organizations:
• Build intentional leadership cultures that inspire accountability and innovation;
• Strengthen leadership pipelines and prepare teams for advancement;
• Repair trust and engagement in times of transition or crisis; and,
• Translate strategy into action with clarity and alignment.
Jason is also the #1 best-selling author of I’m Done Here!: Create Lasting Impact by Leading with Intentionality, which shares his leadership journey and offers lessons in resilience, purpose, and intentional decision-making. Whether speaking to corporate executives, association members, or community leaders, Jason empowers audiences to lead with intentionality, overcome barriers, and achieve sustainable success
Eric Daigle
Attorney, Daigle Law Group
Eric practices civil litigation in federal and state courts, with an emphasis on municipalities and public officials. His experience includes municipal clients in civil rights actions, including police misconduct litigation and employment actions, as well as premises and general tort liability. Eric acts as a legal advisor to police departments across the Country. He provides legal advice to law enforcement command staff and officers in the areas of legal liability, internal affairs, discipline, policy drafting, employment issues, use of force, laws of arrest, and search and seizure. His experience focuses on officers’ use of force, specifically in the training, investigation, and supervision of force, as well as deadly force incidents involving law enforcement. From 1992 to 2002, Eric worked for the Connecticut State Police, during which time he spent many years as a detective assigned to investigative units. His experience included leading investigations; processing crime scenes for the collection of forensic evidence; and preparing cases for prosecution. Eric is currently assigned as a reserve officer and maintains his Connecticut Police certification.
Matt Dolan
Attorney & Director Dolan Consulting Group
Matt Dolan is a licensed attorney who specializes in training and advising public safety agencies in matters of legal liability, risk management, and ethical leadership. His training focuses on helping agency leaders create ethically and legally sound policies and procedures as a proactive means of minimizing liability and maximizing agency effectiveness.
A member of a law enforcement family dating back three generations, Matt serves as both the Director and an instructor with Dolan Consulting Group. He has trained and advised thousands of law enforcement professionals throughout the United States over the course of the last decade.
Dr. Stephen James
Core Faculty, Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University
Dr. David Matsumoto
Founder/Director of Humintell
David is a world-renowned expert on emotion, nonverbal behavior, deception, culture, and threat assessment. He is Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University and founder of the Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory, where he served as director for over three decades. Dr. Matsumoto has authored more than 400 scholarly works, including numerous foundational books and APA, Oxford, and Cambridge handbooks, and is a Fellow of multiple international psychological societies.
His research has been funded by major U.S. government agencies including the Department of Defense, DHS, DARPA, NIMH, and the intelligence community. He is President and CEO of Humintell and has served as an instructor and advisor to the FBI, U.S. State Department, military, and law enforcement agencies worldwide. Dr. Matsumoto is internationally recognized for his work on behavioral indicators of deception, violent intent, and operational threat actors.
In addition to his academic and applied work, Dr. Matsumoto is an Olympic-level judo coach, 8th-degree black belt, and a member of the U.S. Judo Federation Hall of Fame, having served as head coach and performance director for U.S. Olympic teams.
Dr. Patrick Mead
Lecturer/Doctor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Patrick is a frequent lecturer for State Police agencies, the FBI National Academy, Homeland Security, and various military and local police departments. He has also been the highest rated instructor in The Ohio State University’s Executive Education program for nearly 20 years. His specialty is dealing with difficult subjects such as combat stress and recovery, the changes that occur in the brain during disease and aging, and how to manage fear/response. While these subjects are weighty, he brings his gentle Celtic humor into play to make difficult subjects approachable and fun. He holds two doctorates in psychology and neuroscience and works with a wide variety of health care professionals and facilities. He also serves as the Senior Pastor of the Fourth Avenue Church of Christ in historic downtown Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. Patrick’s family has served in the British and United States Armed Forces for over 300 years. He is married to Kami Taylor Mead, an interior designer. They have two grown children and five grandchildren.
Michele Stuart
Owner, JAG Investigations
Bringing forth more than three decades of investigative expertise, Michele boasts a commendable thirty year track record as the proprietor of her own investigative firm. She is a recognized authority in diverse investigative realms, spanning Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), counterintelligence, insurance fraud investigations, financial inquiries, threat assessments, due diligence, organized retail crime, corporate and competitive intelligence.
Michele actively engages in consulting and training activities, catering to a broad clientele that includes federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, military intelligence communities, Fortune 500 companies, and players in the financial and insurance sectors. Her primary focus lies in OSINT, social media analysis, and the formulation of threat assessments and mitigation strategies. Notably, she served as an Instructor at Quantico (FBI Academy), contributing to international training initiatives in OSINT.
Additionally, Michele collaborated with the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security to establish the "Keeping Kids Safe" program. This initiative delivers comprehensive training to administrators, principals, teachers, School Resource Officers (SROs), and parents, addressing the perils associated with online and social media activities, predator grooming, as well as the risks posed by various applications and cellular security.
HOTEL INFO
WYNDHAM GRAND CLEARWATER BEACH
100 Coronado Drive, Clearwater Beach FL
Conference Rate: $237/night
Phone: 727.281.9500