Mike Butler

Mike Butler was the public safety chief in Longmont, Colorado for 26 years. He reinvented public safety within the context of partnerships and leveraged social capital. During his tenure, Longmont public safety instilled a philosophy that included the utilization of many alternative options to the criminal justice system. Those options embraced restorative principles and practices in Longmont public safety’s response to numerous social and health issues in their community. Mike is sought by communities throughout the country who want to learn how to rethink and reset their own public safety response to the human condition that resides in their communities. 

Mike is, more recently, a co-founder of the School of Statesmanship, Stewardship, and Service, an organization, through its 45 courses, teaches leaders and those who want to become leaders the tenants of servant-leadership, civil discourse, how to harmonize contrasts, and to create evolved civility.