Wise by Design | Law Enforcement Training
The Supervisor's obligation to officer wellness
FIT TO LEAD
A practical, research-informed training experience that challenges law enforcement supervisors to recognize risk, examine their own example, and lead healthier, more resilient teams.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2026 | 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Hebron New Life Church | 925 W. Main Street | Hebron, Ohio
Hosted by Hebron Police Department | Chief Tyler Welsh
APPROVED FOR 4 HOURS OF OPOTC CPT CREDIT
$249 per attendee | All course materials included
"Leadership doesn't require perfection. It requires the courage to examine yourself before asking others to change."
Officer Wellness is Personal. Leadership is Not.
Law enforcement supervisors cannot make health decisions for their officers. They can, however, influence the culture in which those decisions are made.
Supervisors are often the first to notice when a good officer begins to change—a shorter temper, declining performance, increased absences, withdrawal, exhaustion, or problems that begin following them home.
The question is whether you know what to do next.
Fit to Lead gives supervisors practical tools to recognize problems earlier, have better conversations, examine the example they personally set, and create an organizational culture where wellness is supported before a problem becomes a crisis.
RECOGNIZE
See it Earlier.
Identify early signs of stress, burnout, and declining performance. Understand when a difficult week may be becoming more serious and how a supervisor can appropriately respond.
MODEL
Leadership Starts With You.
Examine the example your own habits set for the people you lead. Learn practical, evidence-informed approaches to healthier habits and self-evaluation without believing good leadership requires perfect health.
LEAD
Build the Culture.
Learn how supervisor behavior, everyday conversations, policy and command expectations can create an environment that encourages wellness, resilience, accountability and sustainable performance.
You don't have to be perfect to make a difference.
WE'VE LIVED IT, TOO!
We've experienced firsthand how the demands of law enforcement can affect health, habits, marriage and family.
We've also learned that meaningful change requires awareness, accountability, and a willingness to start.
We teach Fit to Lead from a position of shared experience, decades of law enforcement leadership, medical expertise, and hard but extremely valuable lessons learned from making changes in our own lives.
We'll talk more about that when we meet.
Lived Experience. Leadership Perspective. Medical Expertise.
WILLIAM C. TOLLY, CLEE, MSCJ
Retired Deputy Chief of Police
William Tolly brings more than 33 years of law enforcement experience, including more than 15 years in command-level leadership. His career included service in patrol, investigations, SWAT leadership, supervision, command and executive administration.
His Fit to Lead instruction focuses on supervisory responsibility, self-leadership, organizational culture and the practical realities of leading people in the law enforcement profession.
DORA GONZALES-TOLLY, D.O.
Board-Certified Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine Physician
Dr. Gonzales-Tolly brings the clinical side of Fit to Lead, translating medical science into practical information supervisors can understand and use.
Her instruction addresses occupational physiology, cardiovascular and metabolic health, obesity, shift-work physiology, anxiety and depression, healthy habit formation and sustainable behavior change.
She also candidly speaks from the perspective of a law enforcement wife.
What You'll Work Through:
FOUR HOURS. PRACTICAL APPLICATION.
We cover more than telling officers to eat better, exercise more, and get more sleep.
The Leadership Case - the legal, ethical and organizational responsibility surrounding officer wellness
Occupational Health - cardiovascular risk, metabolic health, obesity and shift-work physiology
Anxiety & Depression - recognition, stigma reduction and appropriate supervisory response
Healthy Habits & Self-Evaluation - evidence-informed behavior change and practical self-assessment
Self-Leadership - why leading yourself well affects your ability to lead others
Culture & Conversations - recognizing organizational culture and having better wellness conversations
Fasting & Metabolic Health - examining fasting, nutrition, and other evidence-informed approaches to metabolic health and sustainable behavioral change
Policy & Scenarios - applying the principles to realistic supervisory situations
Who should attend
BUILT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS
Fit to Lead is designed for:
First-Line Supervisors | Sergeants | Lieutenants | Captains | Command Staff | Chiefs & Sheriffs | Training Officers & FTOs
If you are responsible for leading people, you deserve a spot in this conversation.
WHAT WE'RE HEARING
As we've discussed Fit to Lead with law enforcement leaders, instructors, and others familiar with the profession, several themes keep coming up:
A husband-and-wife team—a retired deputy chief and physician—who have both experienced the law enforcement life and can speak from their individual and shared perspectives. What an opportunity.
Having a practicing physician specialist involved sets this class apart from traditional officer wellness training.
These conversations are needed from the top down, along with real-world tools supervisors can actually use to make a difference.
*Paraphrased from feedback received during the development of Fit to Lead.
INVEST IN THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE.
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