Dave Lewis

Executive Leader - Leadership and Strategic Management - Government - Investigations - Risk Management - Performance Coaching/Talent Acquisition - Resilience and Wellbeing Consulting and Management.

Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

About

22 years of Policing experience and over ten years of Executive Leadership experience, managing and developing staff comprising of police officers and public sector act employees, across various Law Enforcement & Government Agencies. • Specialist in Investigations, Intelligence, Stakeholder Engagement, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, Regulatory Compliance and Frameworks, HR management, Recruitment, Procurement, Budgets, Wellbeing/WHS, Disciplinary, Misconduct and Complaints Investigation, Crisis Management, Safeguarding, Conflict Resolution, Performance Management and Service Delivery. • Managed and led 300 Police and Public Sector Employees. Applied organisational and intelligence led vision and executive level strategy to achieve organisational goals. • Managed and led 90 Police and Public Sector Employees, in a specialist State-wide Policing Section with multiple portfolios. Planning and collaborating with stakeholders and external agencies to enhance compliance and enforcement activities while fostering industry-wide behavioural shifts. • Managed and led 50 specialist staff. Responsible for the Crime Management Section, Intelligence Section, Human Source Management Section, and the Strategic and Operational Intelligence assessments and advice to Executive Management. • Managed and led geographically dispersed teams in both State and Commonwealth Government. • Specialist in Strategic and Operational Leadership and Management. Providing direction and guidance, promoting a data driven, intelligence-led, risk management-based approach to achieving operational and strategic objectives in Government/Non-Government and Sports industry. • Strong stakeholder engagement abilities. Establishing and nurturing strategic partnerships with key government and non-government entities, Ministers, and government agencies at both State and Federal levels. • Managed and led hundreds of Integrity/Misconduct, Diversity and Inclusion, Criminal Associations, Public and Ministerial Complaint Investigations ranging from minor to complex. • Managed and led Recruitment Campaign for Large Government Organisation. Portfolios included but not limited to Media, Marketing, Procurement, HR Management, High Profile Promotional Events, Research and Review, Organisational change to Recruitment Process, Financial Management and Tender/Procurement Processes. • Performance Coach and Talent Identification Specialist (Leadership/Sport) - empowering emerging talent with the tools for success. • Resilience and Wellbeing consultant. • Government Security Clearance to Negative Vet 1.

Experience

  • Training Facilitator at Investigation Compliance and Enforcement Training Systems
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Assistant Director - Serious Non-Compliance at NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
    Oct 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Senior Sergeant at South Australia Police
    Jul 2002 - Oct 2023 · 21 yrs 4 mos

  • Operations Manager at Law Enforcement Agency/Government
    Feb 2023