About Leadership Development Solutions

Our expert training is your investment in developing the necessary supervision, management and leadership skills for you to best engage, perform and advance within your organization and the community of which you serve.

Whether in Law Enforcement or the Private Sector, the success of all organizations is measured by the ability of its leaders to properly and proactively identify, mitigate and resolve both internal and external interactions.

We believe every interaction is a transaction in what we call the “Bank of Community Trust” and with every positive interaction a deposit, and every negative interaction a withdrawal.

At the end of the day, to build your consumer and the public’s trust and maintain your department’s legitimacy, your balance in the “Bank of Community Trust” must always be positive and growing.

Real World Instruction

Joe Hoffman

Joe Hoffman is Founder and Lead Instructor of Leadership Development Solutions.

He is a professional leadership trainer for over a decade and retired Police Captain with 25 years of experience in Patrol, Homicide and Sex Crimes Investigations and has commanded Homicide and Internal Affairs Units. 

He received his Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland in1989 and immediately prior to joining the Prince George’s County Police Department as well as receiving extensive investigative training from the F.B.I., Department of Justice, and many local agencies in the Washington D.C. area.

Leadership Development Solutions training workshops are tailored to the specific testing consultants that your agency uses to administer your promotion processes. Our workshops are specific to not only the testing consultant but to your specific exercises and dimensions being measured. This is the very real world training that Joe Hoffman received to earn his promotions to Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain on the very first attempt.

Dr. Wayne Burroughs, Ph.D was the founder of Promotion Test Training Inc.  Dr. Burroughs with over 30 years experience established himself as the father of Public Safety Assessment Center training.  Dr. Burroughs partnered with Captain Hoffman in 2012 and formed The Burroughs Group. The Burroughs Group quickly established itself as the most relevant and successful Assessment Center trainers in the country. This success lead to additional training opportunities in the private sector and in Law Enforcement. 

The partnership between Dr. Burroughs and Captain Hoffman is the perfect combination of Science and real world Law enforcement experience. Dr. Burroughs trained Captain Hoffman in the science of assessment as well as scenario building.