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After 25+ years of service, Chris recently retired as an Assistant Chief of Police from the Fayetteville (NC) Police Department. In his last assignment, he served as the Investigative Bureau Commander and supervised over 150 employees. Chris has worked in patrol, investigations, internal affairs and the training division. Prior to law enforcement, he served 3+ years as a U.S. Army officer and served in Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield.

In addition to his law enforcement career, Chris has worked as an adjunct criminal justice professor at Methodist University, Fayetteville State University, and at North Carolina Central University.

He is a certified yoga instructor and has a passion for improving resilience and operational performance via yoga. In May of 2019, Chris started Yoga911 to enhance the delivery of Yoga / Mindfulness practices. The first Yoga911 Yoga Teacher Training was taught in November 2020.

Over the last 5-years, Chris has taught yoga at the following agencies / organizations:

• Fayetteville Police Department (NC)
• Fayetteville Fire Department (NC)
• NC State Bureau of Investigation
• NC Justice Academy
• Inner Armour
• The Station Foundation (Bozeman, MT)
• Fraternal Order of Police (National Wellness Summit 2021 & 2022)
• The Mindful Badge (Portland, OR)
• Raleigh Police Department (NC)
• Lone Survivor Foundation (April 2021)
• Harnett County Sheriff’s Office (NC) (SWAT Team)
• North Carolina Police Executives Association Conference (2021)
• North Carolina Field Liaison Officer Conference (2021)
• Defense Criminal Investigative Service (2022)
• NC Division of Insurance Investigations Division (2022)
• VALOR Program - Department of Justice (2022)
• North Carolina Women’s Law Enforcement Association Conference (2022 & 2023)
• Charlotte Police Department (NC) – Train the Trainer
• COPS Conference (2022)
• North Carolina Law Enforcement Executive Program (2022 & 2023)
• International Conference of Police Chaplains – Region 8 (2023)
• NC Justice Academy (Weathering the Storm Retreat (2023)

Chris has a master’s degree in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Dayton. He is also a graduate of the 118th Session of the Officer’s Administrative Course (Southern Police Institute / University of Louisville) and the Senior Management Institute for Police (Police Executive Research Forum).

Currently, Chris works at FirstHealth of the Carolinas teaching yoga and HIIT classes and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) as a contractor for the VALOR Program, which focuses on police officer safety, wellness, and resilience.