Speaking

Jeff Schlanger
on the Platform

Jeff Schlanger doesn't speak from theory. He speaks from forty years of experience inside the rooms where consequential decisions were made — and from the hard-won perspective of someone who tried to make those decisions right.

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Jeff Schlanger
The Speaker
What audiences get from Jeff Schlanger is not a polished presentation about justice and reform — it is a direct account of what those things actually look like from the inside, delivered by someone who has spent four decades finding out.
Speaking Topics

What Jeff Speaks About

I

Organized Crime and the Architecture of Justice

A firsthand account of major organized crime prosecution in New York — including the Westies and John Gotti cases — and what they reveal about the relationship between law, power, and consequence.

II

Police Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why

Drawing on eight years overseeing LAPD reform and three years as NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Risk Management, Jeff offers a candid, evidence-based account of what police reform actually requires — and where it most often breaks down.

III

Institutional Accountability Under Pressure

How large institutions — police departments, government agencies, financial institutions — respond when confronted with failure. What drives real change versus performative compliance, and what leaders can do about it.

IV

Leadership in Crisis: September 11th and Beyond

What the aftermath of September 11th and the death of George Floyd revealed about institutional resilience, leadership under pressure, and the capacity of public organizations to respond when the stakes are absolute.

V

Doing Right: Conscience and Judgment in Public Life

The central question of Jeff's memoir and his career — what it means to act with integrity when the systems around you are flawed, when loyalty and principle conflict, and when the personal cost is real.

VI

Building Programs of Continuous Improvement in Law Enforcement

Practical insights from designing and implementing risk management and quality assurance systems in police departments across the country — what sustainable reform looks like at the operational level.

Audiences Jeff Speaks To

Law Schools Police Leadership Conferences Police Reform Forums Corporate Risk & Compliance Government & Public Policy Journalism Schools Literary & Book Events True Crime Conferences Leadership Development Programs

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