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Mr. Talley serves as the Faculty Advisor and Academic Coordinator of the Division’s Intelligence Analysis Programs. In addition to those administrative duties he also teaches courses in that program including the newly designed Art and Science of Decision Making. He teaches a full load in the Police Executive Leadership Programs where he anchors the quality management courses for both the undergraduate and graduate curricula. In addition he teaches two courses in the JHU/USSS Executive Leadership program: Leadership and Organizational Behavior focused on the development of the five Federal Executive Core Qualifications and the twenty-seven supporting competencies; and Leadership Through the Classics. He has taught numerous non-credit programs for the Division’s clients including training for the USSS mentors of SES candidates, and Supervisors as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Supervisory Institute. “Dit” serves as the Division’s point of contact for the on-going work with DEA in terms of the Gettysburg Staff Rides.

Education

DMin (candidate) Wesley Theological School of Theology, Wesley and the Poor Track (degree expected in 2010)

MA Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA, Philosophical and Religions Studies, 1978

STM Boston University School of Theology, Boston MA, Social Ethics, 1970

M.Div St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, MO, Social Ethics, 1969

BA University of the South, Sewanee, TN, Political Science, 1966

Professional Experience

Regional Director, American Management Associations, Mid-Atlantic Region, 1978-1982

President, Corporate and Government Consulting, 1982-present

Instructor, Division of Public Safety Leadership, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-present

Board member, The Sheridan School, Washington, DC 1990-1994 (President from 1992-1994)

Vice president, Columbia Road Land Company, Inc., 2009

Scholarly/Research Interests

For the doctoral project “Dit” is developing a study of returning service men and women from Iraq and Afghanistan in connection with the Reintegration programs of the Maryland National Guard. The component of this effort is to identify those who would be well suited to work in the Intelligence field and to assist them with the educational requirements and security requirements to acquire that self-sustaining employment.

Mr. Talley is researching the writings of Mary Parker Follett to determine why she is not better remembered for her significant contributions to the field of leadership and management theory and practice.

Current Activities - Grants/Sponsored Research/Partnership Activities

Governor’s Office on Crime Control and Prevention Grant to provide Training to MD Law Enforcement Agencies, support, report review, submission and compliance with grant requirements.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) requested study of the appropriate classification of trainers as essential personnel in conjunction with Dr. Phyllis McDonald and with CNA Corporation.

Design development and delivery of customized non-credit training for Drug Enforcement Agency Group Sup. Inst.

Design development and delivery of customized non-credit training of the US Secret Service mentors for the current class of Senior Executive Service (SES) candidates for the agency.

Selected Publications

Talley, Bascom D. and Dreisbach, Christopher (2009) “Lessons Learned from Using the Cohort Model to Teach Ethics in the Intelligence Community” Presented to the International Intelligence Ethics Association Meeting, Mt. Washington Campus, JHU, Baltimore, MD

Talley, Bascom D. (2008) “Professionalism from the Inside Out” Presented to the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, New Orleans, LA

Talley, Bascom D. (2008) “Leading Change” and “Action Planning for Executive Development” Presented at the CAOSA Executive Leadership and Management Seminar, U.S. Social Security Administration, Baltimore, MD

Talley, Bascom D. (2008). “SWOT Analysis Presentation for the Strategic Planning Initiative, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC

Talley, Bascom D. (2008). “Future Issues in Emergency Management” Presented at the Maryland Emergency Managers’ Association conference in Ocean City, Maryland