Dr. Lestrange is the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for METIS Intelligence, North America. METIS is a leading provider of AI driven intelligence solutions to law enforcement, public safety, and security agencies. He is also a founding Research Fellow at the newly launched Future Policing Institute, Center on Policing and Artificial Intelligence (COP-AI).
Dr. Joseph J. Lestrange served over three decades as a commissioned federal law enforcement officer, serving in multiple international, national, regional, and local leadership roles. In his last year of government service, Dr. Lestrange was appointed as Senior Agency Official to the U.S. Council on Transnational Organized Crime - Strategic Division, created by President Biden via Executive Order to develop “whole of government” solutions to complex public safety and national security challenges.
He retired in June 2022 as the Division Chief of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) National Headquarters, Public Safety & National Security Division, where he provided executive oversight over all budget formulation, stakeholder engagement, resource development, strategic planning, and case coordination for multiple law enforcement interdiction, investigation and intelligence units, agency programs, federal task forces and inter-agency operations initiatives.
To prepare future leaders, Dr. Lestrange is a Course Developer and Adjunct Professor in Leadership, Organizational Theory and Design for Tiffin University’s Ph.D. program in Global Leadership and Change; an Adjunct Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology’s, College of Business and Continuing Professional Studies for MBA and undergraduate courses in Leading Strategy, Sustainability, Homeland Security, and Emergency Management. He has supervised PhD dissertations in the areas of police recruitment and retention, adaptive leadership and leading multi-generational workforces.
