Walking the Talk of Well Being: A Moral Imperative and an Atomic Mindset to Thrive rather than Survive our Stressful Work
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SESSION INFO

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Sponsored by NAPE: Community supervision staff and agencies have faced grueling personal and organizational stress in the 2020s. We have “survived” several once-in-a-generation events in a seemingly relentless sequence of stressors. We are still adapting to a global pandemic; the great resignation; a pervasive opiate crisis; a shift to virtual and hybrid work; extraordinary justice reform; a national social justice movement; rapid growth of artificial intelligence; and more dangerous crime and supervision trends in our work. All of this on top of the usual legislative, policy and practice changes that seem small in comparison. Although we have been called to action on well-being to cope with the impacts of such large-scale change, we often wonder how we get beyond the usual lip service of “work/life balance” into a lasting cultural transformation. This presentation will offer a provocative, emotional, and intellectually compelling vision and call-to-action for a well-being culture and mindset.

SESSION PRESENTERS
Glenn Tapia
Director of Leadership and Organizational Intelligence, The Alliance for Community & Justice Innovation


Glenn Tapia is the Director of Leadership and Organizational Intelligence with the Alliance for Community and Justice Innovation (ACJI). Glenn has over 37 years of leadership and criminal justice experience in the public sector in Colorado to include 28 years in community supervision. His career includes 25 consecutive years with the State of Colorado in strategic oversight and advancement of Colorado’s community corrections systems to include his full-time work as Director of Probation Services for Colorado’s Judicial Department. Glenn has over 13 years of executive leadership and management experience in both the executive and judicial branches of government. Glenn’s tenured experience with the state policy process, strategic implementation of evidence-based practices and programs, and multi-level collaboration is augmented with advanced education and experience with academic instruction. Glenn has an ardent commitment to excellence in criminal justice administration that is centered in the application of science to public safety policy.