Leadership
Leading a security function while enabling the business: deciding under uncertainty, leading through influence rather than mandate, and building outcomes that stick.
Real-talk and stories worth hearing.
I speak to rooms that deserve a senior security leader’s time: classrooms, veteran transition programs, and community organizations, alongside conference and executive audiences.
Every session gets shaped to the room. These are the threads I keep coming back to.
Leading a security function while enabling the business: deciding under uncertainty, leading through influence rather than mandate, and building outcomes that stick.
The whole program, not just the parts that demo well: deep technical work, the enablement that gets it adopted, and the execution that keeps it running.
Bad days happen. What carries a company through one is preparation, clear decision rights, and knowing your real dependencies.
Governing AI like any other high-consequence technology: the questions we should be asking, and how security teams can be useful instead of obstructive.
The pipeline problem: how we hire, who we screen out by accident, and what actually works for building teams from nontraditional backgrounds. Then the harder half: keeping them once they are in the door.
If you have a room and a theme in mind that isn’t on this list, ask. The answer is often yes.
Remote or in person. In the DC Metro area, in person is easy.
| June 2026 | Commonwealth Cyber Internship Leadership Panel | Northern Virginia Science Center Foundation & George Mason |
| May 2026 | Cyber Summit Leadership Panel | Briar Woods High School Cyber Club |
These sessions are pro bono. Corporate and conference engagements help make that possible.
High school and university classrooms, cyber clubs, and career days: what this field is really like, what it pays attention to, and how to get in without a traditional résumé.
Translating military experience into the language hiring managers use, which credentials are worth the money, and where service-earned judgment is genuinely an advantage.
Practical, jargon-free security for the people targeted most and protected least: seniors, small nonprofits, and community groups. Sessions built around what they actually experience.
Tell me who’s in it and what you want them to walk out with.