New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who played a key role in founding the School’s executive training program for the police department, discussed the importance of developing leadership for the public sector at a symposium celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (INM).
"For many years the domain of executive education was widely reserved for private corporations and considered largely irrelevant for the work of other types of organizations," Kelly said in his keynote address at the June 9 event.
In 1989, when Kelly was the commanding officer of the NYPD’s office of management analysis and planning, the School launched the Police Management Institute as a custom executive education program. Since then, the institute has served as a catalyst for organizational reform and trained promising leaders how to better manage the country’s largest law enforcement agency, whose responsibilities far exceed routine police work.
"We owed it to our people to provide management training that was commensurate with their jobs," said Kelly, who reorganized the police force to dedicate more than 1,000 officers to counterterrorism efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks. "The top-notch management training provided by INM to a generation of emerging leaders has reinforced the culture of good governance across the board."
In the last three decades, INM has worked with agencies at the national and local level, including the Department of Homeland Security, the New York Fire Department and the UJA-Federation of New York.