About Public Service Leadership Institute (PSLI)
Channel: PCA
Date: 2013-10-02

The business started out as PCA-Professional Consulting Associates, LLC and in 2010, we started really focusing on who we were working with and that was primarily a public sector or public service organizations, so in 2010 we launched the PSLI which is the Public Service Leadership Institute and we launched it because we recognized that the predominance of our clientele were in fact public service entities.  When I say public service entities, I mean public safety was a huge part of who we were working with and in Public Safety that included Police and Fire and Homeland Security, Sheriff's departments across the board, emergency management and emergency services.  So, that kind fell into the public safety arena but also kind of stemming from that, we got a lot of request to work with the actual governmental entities themselves, for example in working with the police department for example, the mayor would come and say, maybe we need some of these for of our department heads and so that what expand to actually with the municipality itself.  Probably at about early 1990s, we began working with the Federal Government, Department of Defense, DLA to be specific, the Defense Logistics Agency.  So, we started to look at our services and that had us working with government service agencies, everything from Federal Department of Defense to local and municipal to the cities and towns and townships.  So, that is where that segment of our PSLI came into play and government services.  As a result of working with the municipalities, often times the mayor would include school district officials, superintendents, assistant superintendents and principals and in the process and they began to ask for some professional development areas and things to be developed for them in professional development.  We actually came up with a very good professional development series, we call it the Clinic Series and we actually handled it like and it is structured like a clinic for educational professionals.  The teachers they have circumstances and situations that they deal with on a day-to-day basis that they may not have gotten specific training for and actually sought ideas and sought some help and some specific models in working with circumstances that they found in their day to day.  So, we actually set up as clinic series which was very successful and worked very well to give them cues and the last segment in Public Service Leadership Institute happens to be clergy and they always seem to have been involved in processes, in which we were engaged, either at the municipal level or even sometimes at the state wide level and what I mean by involved, they always seem to be kind of a bell whether or at least some aspect of their finger on the pulse of what was taking place within the communities and seemed to bring to the table a pretty realistic and in many cases controversial, sometimes view of what was taking place in the community and so as we began to work with municipalities and the law enforcement organizations within those municipalities and governmental bodies, clergy always seemed to be a part of it.  One of the things that began to happen as a result of those interactions was the need which was brought to our awareness for leadership within clergy as well and leadership training within clergy.  That seemed to be an extremely important issue for many of our clients.  So, we actually started to develop some subsets of the same leadership training that we were doing that was targeted specifically to clergy, which took us really to focus on servant leadership and that was one of the things that is the core of that particular aspect.  So, that is how PSLI actually evolved into what it is now and what it is moving forward.

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