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Like practically any other business, most executive protection companies are vendors as well as purchasers. We sell protective services to our clients, and we sometimes buy services from other suppliers to make this happen. Ergo, we need to be good at providing the services we sell, and we need to be good at buying the services we outsource. It all boils down to quality engagement, quality control, and innovation. Yes, 60-page RFP responses can get complicated. No, it’s not always easy to make sure a …
If “training is the cornerstone of readiness”, as the US Army writes in Train to Win in a Complex World, sustainment training is what maintains and improves that readiness over time. This maxim is equally true in private sector executive protection. Unfortunately, however, the importance of sustainment training in executive protection programs is often neglected. In this blog, we take a closer look at which EP skills need to be maintained through sustainment training – and why sustainment training is too …
When many people think about the risks that executive protection helps mitigate, they quickly conjure up images of threats they have seen in the media. Home invasions, pushy paparazzi, kidnappings, and public attacks all come to mind. These are all threats that executive protection professionals and their clients must take seriously. But beyond what some might call “the usual suspects” exists a range of threats and vulnerabilities that deserve more attention than they get. Some of these are things we have …
We all have biases. We demonstrate this whenever we show an implicit, often unspoken tendency for or against someone or something. For better and for worse, biases are baked into our social, psychological, and cognitive evolution as human beings. Our pattern-seeking brains are hardwired to make predictions, and biases make life quicker and easier to predict. Biases can be excellent things, for example, when we prefer foods that are good for us to foods that are bad for us, or when we teach our children not …
In this blog, we dig further into mail threats and vulnerabilities, why they increasingly matter to executive protection professionals, and how we can now mitigate these risks for organizations and family residences with the help of new screening technology. Mail threats matter Mail-borne threats, especially those due to explosives and biological and chemical agents, are real, deadly, and on the rise. In addition to lethal improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and incendiary devices, mail threats containing …
People who don’t travel much often have romanticized ideas of how great it must be to be always on the road. People who travel a lot for their work, including most of our principals, aren’t always convinced the perks of travel outweigh the downsides. Instead of yet another meal in a high-end restaurant, it’s a burger and a Diet Coke that would really hit the spot. In this blog, we’d like to raise our ice-filled glass to all the road warriors out there – and take a closer look at what executive protection …
It’s time for executive protection professionals to understand what Enterprise Security Risk Management, or “ESRM”, is all about, separate the hype from the helpful, and start integrating the ESRM approach into our protective practices and client relationships. So, what is ESRM, anyway? Before offering a definition of ESRM, let’s start by considering ESRM as a systematic approach to security within complex organizations rather than a nitty-gritty security technique. It’s more of a mindset than a method – …
Families are different than corporations, so it’s no wonder that high net worth families – and the family offices that represent their interests – approach protective security differently than corporate organizations. As you’ll see below, we believe there are many good reasons for family offices to take a page from the best corporate threat assessment and risk management practices. Families view security differently than corporations The dynamics of family life – whether high net worth or not – are …
The executive protection industry is growing. Every year, more people are working in protective security, serving more clients than ever before. Corporations, family offices, and individuals are hiring, too. Although specialist providers like us are getting better at planning a career path, we still have a long way to go. Corporations that hire protective security personnel as full-time employees rarely, if ever, provide these niche staff anything like the career advancement opportunities that they …
Here is our list of six dysfunctions that are responsible for a lot of trouble in both corporate and high net worth protection: 1. Dissimilar framing of what executive protection is all about 2. Poor scoping of executive protection programs 3. Inappropriate span of control in executive protection programs 4. Poor executive protection program leadership 5. An environment of fear in executive protection programs 6. Too much ego in executive protection programs As in other areas of life, these dysfunctional …
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