Seizing the Opportunity: How Active Bystandership Saves Costs and Culture

Oct 8, 2026 | 12:00 pm ET
(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Duration: 60 min
Price: No Cost

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Across the entire spectrum in public service workforces, the organizational and human cost of inaction is staggering. Silence in the face of mistakes or misconduct damages community trust and carries massive financial liabilities.

Join us for a compelling session with Jonathan Aronie and Steve Hansen as they dissect their latest research on the critical value of active bystandership. Moving beyond traditional compliance models that simply tell employees to “speak up,” this webinar will explore how to build a culture where personnel are empowered to actively “step in.” Grounded in the premise that active bystandership is fundamentally about the opportunity for intervention, attendees will learn how to leverage these strategies to mitigate risk, avoid costs, and protect their peers.

Abigail Tucker

Abigail Tucker
Co-Founder, Heroes Active Bystandership Training
Abigail S. Tucker, Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist in Denver Colorado. In her current role as trainer, consultant and in private practice she works directly with emergency responders, veterans, victims of crime, criminal and juvenile justice entities and behavioral health providers. Dr. Tucker serves as Adjunct Faculty at Colorado State University Global in their Emergency Responder and Military Psychology Program and at her alma mater Nova Southeastern University in their College of Psychology and for the Fischer College of Education and Criminal Justice. Abigail is a certified instructor for Adult & Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and for the Public Safety module of Adult MHFA, and is a proud national training instructor for the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project.

Jonathan Aronie

Jonathan Aronie
Leader, Organizational Integrity Group
Jonathan Aronie’s entire career has been centered around integrity, and especially the idea that organizational integrity is good fiscal policy, for corporations and criminal justice agencies alike.
After graduating from Brandeis University in 1990 and Duke University School of Law in 1993, Jonathan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Patricia Wynn on the DC Superior Court. With 30+ years practicing law, Jonathan is the leader and founding member of the Sheppard Mullin Organizational Integrity Group, a cross-disciplinary team of litigators, regulatory specialists, federal monitors, and ex-prosecutors with extensive experience helping organizations prevent and defend against challenges to their organizational integrity.
In the early 2000s, Jonathan served as the Deputy Independent Monitor over the Memorandum of Agreement between the US Department of Justice and the DC Metropolitan Police Department. Subsequently, as an outgrowth of his internal investigation practice, Jonathan was appointed in 2013 by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana as the Monitor over the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). The Monitorship, which came to a successful conclusion in November 2025, involved former police chiefs, internationally-known professors, and other professionals who collectively were responsible for reviewing, assessing, and reporting publicly on the NOPD’s compliance with a far-reaching federal Consent Decree. As the lead monitor, Jonathan was integrally involved in overseeing the transformation of what was (but is no more) one of the nation’s most troubled law enforcement agencies. He spent his time in New Orleans meeting with citizens, business leaders, and civil rights attorneys, in addition to riding along with the police officers themselves in order to ensure that the consent decree was enforced fairly.
As a corollary to his work in New Orleans, Jonathan helped NOPD to create and guide the development of Ethical Policing is Courageous (EPIC), the country’s first department-wide peer intervention program for police officers. Subsequently, to make active bystandership available to police departments across the country, Jonathan co-founded the Georgetown/Sheppard Mullin Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project, for which he serves pro bono as chairperson of the Project’s Board of Advisors. Jonathan’s leadership has been instrumental in helping ABLE to change the culture in more than 440 police departments across North America, serving more than 100 million Americans.
Jonathan Aronie has written more than 150 articles, authored or co-authored three books, and speaks nationally on a wide range of topics, including procurement law, corporate ethics, and compliance programs, organizational integrity, and constitutional policing. He has taught at the FBI National Academy, the ATF National SAC Conference, multiple state police chief associations, the Darden School of Business, and the Walt Disney Company, among many other high functioning organizations.

Steve Hansen

Steve Hansen
CEO-CFO, Utah Local Governments Trust
Co-author of the Fall 2025 brief, The high price of silence: An analysis of the potential cost avoidance from a meaningful active bystandership program in municipalities, published by the Utah Local Governments Trust.