Conversation Tracks
We have always used education tracks as guardrails to organize the conversations we have so that we can then synthesize them into our national forums. We will continue to expand these pillars to meet the needs of new topics and industries. But we will anchor everything through the lens of the first pillar:
LEADERSHIP: STRATEGY, INNOVATION, AND CHANGE
Are you fully present, conscious, and composed under pressure? Do you have the tools to create a leadership mindset in you and your people? Are you pursuing a highly engaged, innovative culture through a transparent, honest, and courageous conversation platform?
Explore the impact of changing the focus from risk to risk and opportunity management with your organizational leader
Discover the innovations that change the value proposition for you and your business
Engage your emerging leaders in the business and help prepare them for the future of risk and opportunity management
Create a road map to help drive employee engagement, empowerment, and your program performance
business resilience
Learn who owns the risk within your organization
Align your team and programs with successful risk and resilience strategies
Be a part of the discussion around the convergence of previously siloed systems to enable outcomes with data-driven analytics
Learn the importance of adaptation for your business and processes to stay current
ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTH
It always starts with a person. Learn how to find your purpose and make work a missional aspect of your life
Leaders then leverage that purpose by discovering strategies for leadership and organizational change. Engagement is critical to a self-correcting, innovative culture.
Learn how to optimize the people performing roles and executing processes
Hear how others are embedding risk and opportunity goals into the larger organizational mission
Learn how to identify, recruit, and retain the talent you need to create a self-correcting, diverse, leadership and innovation culture
INTELLIGENCE
Learn how to ingest dynamic indicators and leverage risk models that lead to enterprise longevity and stakeholder confidence
Understand, define, and prepare for the risk and the actions needed to address the risk before the incidents occur
Hear how others are managing their vulnerabilities around geographic, market, and economic changes
Create the technology infrastructure to collect, manage, and mine data; the oil of your program effectiveness
TECHNOLOGY
Learn how to collaborate with the right internal stakeholders to evaluate their wants and needs
Define a strategy and plan to create evaluation criteria that will help you pick the right technology and service partners
Learn to scale, maintain, and create solutions for your organization
Discover how technology can disrupt our industry assumptions around risk mitigation and value generation models
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We Seek Leadership Where They Live, Act, and Thrive
The following are some of the leaders who have joined us in a great conversation. Follow the links to their episodes.
Dr. Rob McKenna, WiLD Leaders, The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Your Are Not Measuring…but Should
Zach Kosturos, Upsyde Ventures, Upgrade: The Birth of an Investor
Dennis Hamon, PHCC, Saving our Children from the Presumption of College
Dr. Gav Schneider, Risk 2 Solutions, The Gentle Art of Navigating Risk and Opportunity
Sean Stormes, The Demand Creation Institute, Why No Demand for Your Product or Service?
Chris Hare, The Storied Future, Story can Save You and Your Company
Michael Gips, Access is Privilege
Michael McQueen, Mindstuck: Mastering the Art of Changing Minds (Yours and Others)
Brian Evergreen, The Greatest Threat to Humans: It is not AI
Dr. Rob McKenna, Accepting the Paradox of Leadership
Chris Westfall, Leadership Language
Kim Seeling Smith, Desperate to Lead
Travis Lishok, The Challenge of Industry: Creating a Bridge between the Old and New
Allan Church, The Great5: The Language of Leadership
Ron Worman, The Path to Value
Sally Clarke, Burn Out or Burn In?
Doug Melville, You are not Invisible
Daniel Hallak, PhD, The Holy Grail: Aligning your Business with your People
Mark L. Vincent, Learning, Seeing, and the Three Turns of a Leader
Robin Horsfall, Who Dares Shares
Benjamin Martin, The -Between-
Four Branches Bourbon, The Water of Life
Skip Miller, M3 Learning, Yes’s are Good. No’s are Good. Maybe’s will Kill You!
Steve Caton, Altezza, Hungry for Service
Dr. Rob Mckenna, WiLD Leaders, The Manifesto of Whole Leadership
Mark Ledlow, The Ledlow Security Group, The Future of Security is the Future of Leadership and Business
Cyndi Coon, Time Traveler (Lab Founder of Threatcasting Lab, Applied Futures Lab): What does it mean to be a Time Traveler?
Chris and Denida Grow, NannyGuards: Sacrificial Leaders Galvanize an Industry Supporting Children and Families
Kirill Zubovsky, SmartyNames: Augmenting the Machine: AI and the Future of Work
Dr. Jade Singleton, The Sarah Jane Academy: The Power of Business=The Power of Diversity. The Power of Equity. And the Power of Inclusion
Michelle Stacey, Editor in Chief of Centennial Media: Time Held Me Green and Dying
James Bosworth is the founder of Hxagon: Sourcing Intelligence to Navigate Risk and Opportunity
Ron Worman, The Great Conversation: Thanksgiving 2022 Blog: Amor Fati
Marcelo Carvalho, Vice President of Cybersecurity, Capital One: A Single Source of Truth in Security, Business, and Life
Dr. Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense (under two administrations): Blog on his speech at ISF: Is the United States of America "Indispensable"? — The Great Conversation (the-great-conversation.com)
Mike Zegadlo, Chief of Police at Lewis University: The New Value Proposition of Policing
Gianluca Bisceglie, Founder & CEO at Visyond: The Future Belongs to the Data Driven Organization
Peter Warren Singer, Strategist at New America, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and Founder & Managing Partner at Useful Fiction LLC: The Stories that Influence Leaders
Mitchell Levy, international bestselling author of over 60 books, and an executive coach at Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches: Learning the Art of Credibility
Michael Gips, Principal of Global Insights in Professional Security: Security Executives Defined by their Value, Not by their Title
Bob Tiede, prolific author, blogger, and trainer on how to develop leaders through questions. He is the author of Leading with Questions: Great Leaders Ask Great Questions
Tony Davis is the Founder and Chairman of Dovetail Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd and Next Level Insights Group: Living Life on Purpose: The End of TGIF
Dr. Thom Mayer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BestPractices, Inc., Executive Vice President of EmCare, and the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association: Leading is a Verb. Learn it then Teach it.
Melissa Muir, Director of Human Resources and Organizational Development at the City of Shoreline in Washington State: Bringing to the Surface what is below the Surface
Scott Lindahl, VP Corporate Services & Chief Security Officer, at Kellogg Company: Beyond the Fenceline: The Mindset of the Next Generation Executive
Paul Cobaugh, Vice President of Strategy, Narrative Strategies: The Urgency to Understand the Larger Story of Another
Marisa Randazzo, Ph.D, Executive Director for the Ontic Center of Excellence: A Cry for Help: The Pathway of Violence
Monica Duperon Rodriquez, Senior Manager of Global Security and Risk Management (Executive Protection) at LinkedIn: The Path to Creating a Team
Debbie Maples, Vice President of Global Safety & Security: Security Operations, Investigations & Protection at Salesforce: Leveraging Security and Safety for Competitive Advantage
Hans Nyamie, International Hybrid Workplace Consultant: We are in Tomorrow
Mark Ledlow, President of Ledlow Consulting: His Job is to Help Others Fear Less
Scott Stewart, VP of Intelligence, TorchStone Global-Security: The Great Enabler of Organizational Strength
Lukas Quanstrom, co-Founder and CEO, Ontic
Tom Kopecky, co-Founder of Ontic
Tyson Aiken, Global Safety and Security, Wildlife Foundation, former Senior Director of Global Safety and Security, Nike
Read Hayes, Director of the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC)-
Vitaly Geyman, CEO and Board Advisor Quantum Leaders
Dr. Gene Deisinger, President, Deisinger Consulting
Patrick Daly, Principal Deputy Director and COO, Security Community Network (SCN): Protecting at the Speed of Risk
Christian Connors, CEO, Milcom Security Solutions, Board Advisor to Fusus: People with Passion will Change the World
Michael Mason, former CSO for Verizon
Adam Cambridge, Enterprise Risk Intelligence, Mitre: To Protect and Enable
Chris Story, Director of Risk intelligence & Security Consulting, Triumph Protection Group: Are you a Hitchhiker, a Driver, or the Car?
Jack Carr, NY Times Best Selling Author (Terminal List, True Believer, Savage Son, The Devil’s Hand, In the Blood): "Here I Am. Send Me"
Wendy Bashnan is the CSO of Nielsen: "I Can Only Solve What I Can See"
Manish Mehta, Chief Product Officer, Ontic: On the Intelligence Autobahn: Riding Toward the Future of Security
Emilio Galli Zugaro, President, The Orvieto Academy for Communicative Leadership: The Listening Leader
Angela Scalpello, the founder of the Scalpello Group-Moving the Aspirational and Relational Dial of Leadership
Waltraud Glaeser, VUCA Expert, VUCA World-Redefining VUCA to Inspire and Foster Confidence in the Future
Jon Polly, Chief Solutions Officer - CSO, ProTecht Solutions Partners, LLC-Supporting the Security Ecosystem at the Edge
Brian Tuskan, CSO of Physical Security, Microsoft
Robin Dreeke, former FBI Special Agent and Head of CI Behavioral Analysis Program (RET), Author of The People Formula-What if "Seeing and Knowing" was a Practice?
Sam Queeno, Director of Digital Identity and Physical Security, American Electric Power
Dale Buckner, CEO, Global Guardian-Leadership and the Risk Advisor
Nathan Mills, Head of Physical Security (Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Resiliency) Zoom-Protect to Enable
Scott Shepherd, Chief Legal Officer (CLO), Ontic-The Chief Legal Officer's Strategic Partner: Security
Steven Antoine, Vice President of Global Security for North America, Pepsico-Security's Strategic Seat at the Table
Nick Brossoit, Ed.D, former Superintendent, Edmonds School District- Learning How to Live
Mark Oakes, Founder and CEO of Concentric Security
Michael Trott, Security Thought leader, author (The Protected), and security executive leader for Discovery Land Company-The Art of Protecting the Leader
Dr. Dan Libby, Executive Director of the Veterans Yoga Project (VYP)-What Leaders can Learn from PTSD
Stephen Pineau, the CEO of Gloocel -"Siri: Can you please open the door?"
Chuck Randolph, former senior director of threat intelligence and executive protection at Microsoft, former Senior Director of Operations for AT-RISK International and now Executive Director of Strategic Intelligence for Ontic
Bobby Herrara, President, Populist Group, Author of The Gift of Struggle - The Gift of Struggle
Greg Williams, founder and President, Arcadia Cognerati - From Myth to Learning: The Art of the Cognerati
Brian Marren, Senior VP of Operations of Arcadia Cognerati - From Myth to Learning: The Art of the Cognerati
Elizabeth Parks, President of Parks Associates, - Understanding the Transactions of Value: Business Intelligence as a Service
Daniel Forest, CEO, Eyeforce - Virtual Guarding
Levi Huffman, Professional Musician - The Breath of Life
Ronny Saether, Norges Bank - ISO 31030: The Global Community Addresses Travel Risk Management
Patrick Kane, Senior Director of Security, Atlas Air - ISO 31030: The Global Community Addresses Travel Risk Management
Mac Segal of AHNA
David Nicastro of Secure Source International - Standing in the Gap in Afghanistan
Paul Dipeso, President of SAFR, former Vice President of Feenics - Unbound Intelligent Security
John Coovert, the VP and Global Head of Security, SAP - Anyone, Everywhere
Dylan Hayes, Cyber-Physical IT Security Manager, Seattle Children’s Hospital - In the Face of the Threat: Security on the Front Line
Elvin Turner, Award-winning innovation expert and associate professor of innovation, entrepreneurship and marketing for MBA and executive education programs - Be Less Zombie: How great organizations create dynamic innovation, fearless leadership, and passionate people
Guy Beveridge, CEO, Beveridge and Associates - Leadership and Security
Justin Gant, co-Fouinder, TrueFire - A Smart Gun Promising to Change
Erik Larson, co-Founder, TrueFire - A Smart Gun Promising to Change
Mark Weatherford, Global Information Security Strategist, Booking Holdings - Serving the Emerging Leaders in Security
Ron Worman, CEO of The Sage Group and The Great Conversation
Brian Cooke, Corporate Security Manager, International Security Operations for Marathon Petroleum - Government Myths on the Journey to Becoming a Security Executive (Blog Only)
Fred Burton, Executive Director, Center for Protective Intelligence, Ontic
Miranda Coppoolse, Founder of MC Global Security - The Science and Heart of Knowing Another
Steven Bowler, Global Director of Corporate Security, Gallagher - Born for Impact
Rob McKenna, PhD, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WiLD Leaders
Daniel Hallak, PhD, Chief Commercial Officer, WiLD Leaders
Scot Walker, CEO, Walker and Associates - A Conversation with a Protection Futurist
Robert Dodge, CEO of Global Risk Services, Prosegur - A Window of Opportunity for the Next Generation Risk Operations Center
Lisa Oliveri, Director of Global Safety and Security, EDC (Education Development Center) - The Scorecard for Managing the Fragility of our Ecosystem
Eric McNulty, Associate Director, The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) - The Moment for Meta-Leadership
Bill Marcisz, President of Strategic Security Management Consulting - Augmenting the Protector with new Eyes and Ears
Michael Levenberg, Partner in LLR Partners - Creating the Value Creation Team: An Inside Look at a Private Equity Group
Michele Gay, Co-Founder, Safe and Sound Schools - The Ecosystem of a School’s Security and Safety
Mike Howard, President of Howard Consulting, LLC, and author of The Art of Ronin Leadership, former CSO of Microsoft
Chris Crosby, founder and CEO, Compass Datacenters - Supply Chain Innovation for the Digital Age
Mark Reed, CHPA, Director of Support Services, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital - Security Matters to the Customer, the Stakeholder, and the Business
Doug Greenwald, Advanced Solutions Group, Convergint Technologies - Business Process Optimization and Digital Transformation start with ‘Who’
Matthew Dimmick, CPP, PSP, CPD, Senior consultant, STV - Why We Need a Great Conversation and Playbook
Tim Wenzel, Head of Global Security, Privacy Protection, Facebook. Founding Partner of Getting Security Done (GSD). Founding Partner of The Kindness Games
Jonathon Harris, Senior Product Manager, HiveWatch; former Vice President of Group337
Paul Metzheiser, Managing Partner, Tamco - A New Model for Purchasing: Appreciating Outcomes vs. Purchasing Depreciating Assets
Kip Boyle, President and vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities, LLC - Cybersecurity is not a Technology Problem: It's a Management Opportunity
Mark Reid, Director of Safety and Security at Seattle Pacific University -
The Battle for Time (When Seconds Matter)
Martin Gasulla, Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Director of Civil Defense at Municipalidad de Vicente López - Why Cities and Buildings Need to Get Smarter to be Safer
Michael Gelles, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLC - The Tipping Point of Insider Threat
Mark McCourt, Author, Consultant, and Board Advisor - Snow Day: A Profile of the Best Leaders in a Crisis
Carlos Francisco, Security Translator Podcast - The Magic Keys of Leadership
Steve Hunt, Executive Coach and Trainer, Rave Strategy Studios - Piercing the Veil to get to the Truth
Mark Demos, Author, The DNA Code: The Forensics of Purpose, Passion and Performance - Uniquely Designed for Impact
Morgan Hertel, Vice President of Technology, and Innovation, Rapid Response Monitoring Services - Everything is Becoming Smart: We Need to Engage Technology so Technology can Engage Us
Michael Zalle, CEO & founder, Yellowbird - Entering the Mind of an Entrepreneur
Cheryl Steele, Vice President of Global Security & Resilience, Starbucks - Resilient in the Face of Disruption
Brine Hamilton, Host, The Healthcare Security Cast - Capturing the Voice of Healthcare in Security
Christopher Stitt, Supervisory Special Agent, Diplomatic Security Service
Lee Odess, Founder & CEO, Group337
Erik Shluntz, Co-Founder & CTO, Cobalt Robotics
Kent Howard, Security Risk Management Consultant, Verizon - Security by Design
Inge Huijbrecthts, Global Senior VP Responsible Business Safety & Security, Radisson Hotel Group - Security, Safety, and Sustainability: The Three-Legged Chair
Siobahn Executive General Manager of People, Culture, and Change, DuluxGroup - The Stories and Patterns of Your Culture are Key to Your Success
Fred Cary, the CEO, IdeaPros - Turning an Idea into a Valuable Company
Paul Moxness, former VP of Corporate Safety and Security of the Radisson Hotel Group and the current Managing Partner of NorthPoint International - The Customer Experience
Jeff Friedman, CEO, Building Intelligence - The Bridge to the Business
Shawn Galloway, President of the global consultancy, ProAct Safety - Knowing the ‘Why’ of Your Performance
Wanda Townsend, Leadership Consultant - Finding Your Voice: The Leadership Journey
Bridget Truxillo, partner in Herrscher and Truxillo and the founder of The Law Enforcement Legal and Wellness Program® - The Greatest Investment
Maxinne Leighton, PhD, Assoc. AIA, Director of Marketing/Communications & Business Development for JB&B - Buildings, Humans, and the Sustainable Organization
Shelley Benoliel, Head of Physical Security & Business Resilience, Zoom Communications - To Protect is to Enable
John Hartman, the founder, and former leader of CEOtoCEO - Creating a Community of Leaders
Cameron Javdani, President, SoundSecure -
Alon Blankstein, Chairman of Insight Acoustics - Hear with Your Eyes
Kami Dukes, Director of Business Development for North America, AMAG - Unifying the Business through Technology and People
Tom Mars, former Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Walmart - The Measure of a Company
Dan Witters, Research Director of the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index - Is Your Company Healthy?
Nabih Numair, Sr. Manager for GSOC, Palo Alto Networks - The Digital Transformation of Protective Intelligence within a GSOC
Tammi Morton, Vice President & CSO, Raytheon Technologies - The Exhilarating Ride of a Security Leader
Kristina Anderson, Executive Director & Founder, Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools - Are Schools Safer?
Zachary Driskell, Executive Protection & Global Security Operations, Marathon Petroleum Corporation - Data at your Service: How a GSOC transformed our Value Proposition to the Business
Jason Veiock, Security Resilience & Workforce Enablement, GoDaddy - Changing the Narrative: An Outcomes Based Approach to Risk Management
Annette Klososky, founding Partner at Future Point of View - New Language and Tools for Leaders
Jeffrey Leinaweaver, consultant, practitioner and co-founder of Find Mino - From ‘Me’ to ‘We’
Firdaus Pohowalla, Managing Director, Cascadia Capital - The Market Forces Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Regan Robertson, President and CEO, Productive Dentist Academy - The Authentic and Productive Business Owner
Ujima Donalson, Assistant Vice President of Total Talent Management, University of Washington - The Measure of an Organization Rests on a Covenant called Relationship
Daniel Edds, Author, "The Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Excellence“- Cracking the Genetic Code of Leadership
Laura Berland, Founder/CEO of the Center for Compassionate Leadership - The Art of Becoming
Evan Harrel, Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Compassionate Leadership - The Art of Becoming
Christopher Stitt, U.S. Department of State, Deputy Regional Director - Diplomatic Security/International Programs/Western Hemisphere Affairs - Framing the Future of Risk and Emergency Management
Jim Sawyer, Director of Security Services, Seattle Children’s - A Winning Formula for Security
Eric Yunag, Vice President of Technology and Innovation, Convergint Technologies - The Digital Transformation of the Security Integrator
Lee Oughton, Co-Founder, Legent Risk Management, LLC & Fortress-Risk Management
Andrew Lanning, Co-Founder, Integrated Security Technologies - The InfraGard Advisory
Steve Laskey, Group Publisher and Editorial Director, Endeavor Business Media - The Power of Story
Dan Rothrock, President Americas, Zenitel
Nigel Waterton, Chief Revenue Officer, Arcules
Mark Duato, Executive Vice President, ASSA ABLOY
Tim Palmquist, Vice President Americas, Milestone Systems
David Drew, Sales Director, IPConfigure
James Marcella, Director of Industry Relations, Axis Communications
Michael Affronti, Senior Vice President, Dataminr
Paul Baratta, Healthcare Segment Development Manager, Axis Communications
Steve Caroselli, President & CEO, Orion Entrance Control, Inc.
Hollis Mignogno, Vice President of Global Security, Meetings & Events, Travel, and Trade Shows, Cardinal Health - An ‘Inconvenient’ Year
George Finney, Chief Security Officer, SMU - Security is in Your DNA
Burke Brownfeld, Director of Global Safety & Security for Visa Incorporated
Rory Marty, Director of Operations, Central Falls School District
Brian Uridge, Deputy Director, University of Michigan - In the Midst of Uncertainty, Think Fast and Slow
Gary Gooden, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Seattle Children’s (Hospital, Research, Foundation) - Security: The Tip of the Spear for Innovation
David Komendat, Chief Security Officer, The Boeing Company - The Opportunity for Leadership
Cheryl Michaels, Associate Director, Office of Safety & Security at Seattle Pacific University - Seizing the Moment with a Leadershp Mindset
Eddie Reynolds, CEO and co-Founder of Iluminar - A Coat of Many Colors and Backgrounds
Joe Souza, Director of Security for the University of Florida - The New Scorecard for Excellence in Education Demands Security
Min Kyriannis, the Managing Director of a consulting company called JMK - An Inside Look at Our Greatest Challenges in Security: Technology Innovation
Elisa Mula, the Founder of EMD - Leading by Example
Ed McDowell, Executive Director, Warm Beach Camp and Conference Center - Conversations of Trust Leading to High Performance Teams
Brandon Miller, CEO, 34Strong - YOU CAN LEAD A MEANINGFUL LIFE – BETTER YET, YOU CAN HELP OTHERS AS WELL
Kim Quaintance: co-founder IQ Gemini and Move to Think - The Art of Strategy and Innovation starts with Play
Saurabh Bajaj, CEO and Founder of Swiftlane - Intelligence at the Edge
Amanda Austensen, Global Security Operations, Illumina
Sean Boney, Corporate Security, AdventHealth
Sarah Powell, Director of Emergency Management, Temple University - Taking the Road Less Travelled
Geva Barrash, CEO & Founder, Secure our City
Scott Koslosky, Founder, Future Point of View
Nick Weber, Security Risk Management and NERC CIP Compliance