Dr. Lestrange is currently a Senior Advisor to Cardinal Point Strategies, a global strategic advisory and public policy consulting firm specializing in homeland security, intelligence, law enforcement and public safety matters. His most recent efforts have been advising technology clients in the responsible development of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning products for law enforcement and public safety organizations that are in alignment with legal and privacy regulations, as well as internal agency policies and procedures and rules of criminal evidence.

He was recently recognized for these efforts and his distinguished federal career at the prestigious Global Law 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas where he was awarded the Outstanding Leadership Award – July 2023. 

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) DC Headquarters, Public Safety & National Security Division, where he provided global executive oversight, stakeholder engagement, resource planning, strategic development, case coordination, and budget formulation for multiple criminal investigation, law enforcement and intelligence units, agency programs, federal task forces and inter-agency operational initiatives.

These included HSI’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Regional Coordinators and Department of Defense National Intelligence Liaisons; National Gangs, Violent Crime, Human Smuggling & Trafficking, Fentanyl & Opioid Task Forces and the agency’s Narcotics, Border Security, Firearms & Contraband Smuggling, Commercial Trade / Maritime Security, Indigenous “Shadow Wolves” Patrol Officers, and Trade Based Money Laundering programs.  

Additionally, Dr. Lestrange oversaw the national training, equipping, and integration of all State and Local Police Task Force Officers into HSI operations and directed HSI participation in four HQ based inter-agency intelligence, targeting and operational support centers serving 35+ partner agencies.  

In 2015, Dr. Lestrange earned his PhD in Global Leadership and Organizational Management from Indiana Tech where he created and tested a “Values Based” leadership framework identifying 10 universal “best practices” for leadership spanning 29 countries and all continents around the globe. He also holds a Master of Public Administration in Operations Management from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Hofstra University.  Dr. Lestrange is also a graduate of the PERF Senior Management Institute of Policing, IACP Leading Police Organizations, and SPI Chief Executive Leadership programs.

To prepare future leaders, Dr. Lestrange is a part time Course Developer and Adjunct Professor in Leadership, Organizational Theory and Design for Tiffin University's PhD program in Global Leadership and Change Management, an Adjunct Professor at Indiana Institute of Technology, College of Business and Continuing Professional Studies for MBA and undergraduate courses in Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Strategy and Sustainability.  He has supervised PhD dissertations in the areas of: Police Recruitment & Retention, Adaptive Leadership, & Leading Multi-generational work forces.  Dr. Lestrange also serves as a Council Member at Seton Hall University's Transformative Leadership in Disruptive Times Advisory Council, and Police Advisor at Rutgers University Center on Policing and Community Resilience.