Andrew Scipione - Lessons for Leadership

Leadership on a bad day

Thu 15 Oct 2020

Bible reference(s): Micah 6.8

How do you lead a response to a terrorist incident? Andrew Scipione was the NSW Commissioner of Police during the Lindt Cafe siege of 2014. He shares big lessons of leadership learned on that fateful day and his surprising source of inspiration and strength.

The guest: Andrew Scipione. Andrew joined the NSW Police force in 1980. He was appointed NSW Commissioner of Police in 2007 where he served amidst some of the most challenging events in Australia’s history, including the Lindt Cafe siege in December 2014 before his retirement in 2017. Andrew has been awarded the Australian Police Medal and the National Medal. He loves his family and fishing.

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Andrew was the New South Wales Police Commissioner from 2007-2017. He worked for the NSW Police Force for more than four decades in a decorated career that included targeting global organised gangs and heading up campaigns to reduce alcohol-related and domestic violence.

Andrew was a recipient of the National Medal in 1996 and Australian Police Medal in 2003. In 2016 he was named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his service to law enforcement and “advancing the professionalism of policing and leadership of international investigations and counter terrorism activities”.