Eric is a decorated military and law enforcement veteran with 35 years of professional public safety experience. He has served in the U.S. Army Infantry, a municipal police department and the past 31 years with the Connecticut State Police. He recently retired after serving as the commanding officer of the state police training academy. Eric holds a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Hartford; M.S., Organizational Leadership; B.A., Communication, and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Session 273. He is a life-long learner and his research focused on "Psychological Capital: Public Safety Leadership Strategies to Mitigate Traumatic Incident Stress Among Police Officers."

During his career, Eric has held numerous administrative and operational assignments which has provided the necessary leadership framework for his training programs. Eric has taught leadership and human performance management to hundreds of organizations and thousands of private and public employees across the United States and abroad. He is a co-author/creator of the Performance Leadership Model. He is a diamond level distributor/trainer in Everything DiSC and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. He has authored and published several instructional law enforcement training videos.