Leadership: Operations Commander, COVID19, QPS Part 1

Episode 5 of What Leaders Know is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with Assistant Commissioner, Queensland Police Service, Shane Chelepy. Shane is Operations Commander of the COVID-19 Command with QPS. In our two-part conversation, Shane takes us on his journey to becoming an accomplished and successful leader within the Queensland Police Service.

Episode 5 is Part 1 of this conversation. Shane talks about his early journey into the adventures of policing, quickly tempered by significant early learning experiences. Shane discusses his exposure to the courageous leadership of some senior police who led the critical cultural change in the wake of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. He shares that this led him to focus on excelling as he grew a leadership career across a diverse range of the organisation’s operations and Commands.

Shane shares stories, insights and leadership takeaways gained across the diverse roles including State Coordinator, Queensland Water Police and Superintendent, Counter Terrorism, Strategic Policy Unit. These became the platform for his later promotions into the executive roles as Assistant Commissioner.

And finally, in his wrap up of Part 1 of our conversation, Shane speaks candidly about some of his failures, and what he learnt about leadership from these experiences.

Across this Episode, Shane shares great takeaways from his own experiences that will resonate for those on their own journeys to leadership.