Karen Collins Rice

Karen Collins Rice, M.S. is the co-founder of Heroes Active Bystandership Training, LLC. With over 30 years of experience in organizational development, curriculum design, and leadership development, she has played a pivotal role in shaping effective, values-driven approaches to public safety leadership.

Karen served as the curriculum designer for Georgetown Law’s Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project, and is the Chief Program Architect of Trust-Centered Leadership—an innovative police leadership development program focused on cultivating emotional intelligence, effective communication, and the ability to foster healthy organizational cultures. She has facilitated the program for hundreds of police leaders at all levels across the country.

Karen has also partnered with organizations such as the National Policing Institute and the Behind the Badge Foundation, guiding them through strategic planning processes designed to integrate values, vision, and strategic goals into day-to-day operations through sustainable, internally driven frameworks.  She is a member of the teaching faculty in the California Chiefs of Police Executive Leadership Program, in the University of Virginia’s National Criminal Justice Command College,  and a Fellow of the Future Policing Institute.

Karen holds a Master’s Degree from Florida State University in Instructional Systems Design and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida.