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So, You're a New Executive Protection Manager The executive protection (EP) industry is growing, and so is the number of new executive protection manager positions. This is great for our industry and for all the people who take this important move up the career ladder. However, it ushers in a range of predictable problems for many of the new managers and the programs and people they lead. As we will see in this blog, new EP managers face all the same challenges as new managers in any industry – and there …
Corporate executive protection is a lot of things to a lot of people. That’s natural, as EP is a relatively new discipline in the corporate sphere. But it doesn’t mean that everything that everyone says about corporate EP makes sense or is helpful. In this blog, we will discuss the components of building and maintaining a corporate EP program. We have had the privilege of helping some highly successful corporations set up or turn around their EP programs, and we’ve learned a few things along the way that …
Many companies, including major corporations, have a number of physical security programs but no specific executive protection strategy or program. In this blog, we address three questions that corporations need to ask when considering whether to set up an EP program. The decision to set up a corporate executive protection (EP) program is not a simple one. While good programs across a variety of companies share many similarities, the paths leading to the decision to establish them are as varied as the …
Measure what matters In order to pull off the logistical nightmare of a busy EP team, it is important to look for ways to stay organized and optimize productivity in a schedule. Even an extra 30 minutes for the team to rest in their hotel rooms or grab a bite to eat made a world of difference. We constantly are working to improve the program anywhere we can, because even the slightest change in program management and implementation would have ripple effects that would impact the client and the EP team. It …
There aren’t many corporate executive protection strategy documents lying around in corporate headquarters or in executive protection companies. Blueprints that cover the strategy essentials are not available online. Why? We believe this is due to two simple but interrelated factors: Most people who know a lot about corporate strategy don’t know much about executive protection. Most people who know a lot about executive protection don’t know much about corporate strategy. A corporate EP strategy template …
We’re often asked why corporations establish executive protection (EP) programs for their CEOs and other employees. The question is fair enough, since corporate executive protection is a relatively new phenomenon for many companies, and by its very nature not something that people outside the boardroom, C-suite or our industry discuss much in public. The more we think about an answer, the more we’re convinced that the question should be turned on its head. A better question is “Why wouldn’t corporations …
The difference between corporate executive protection and EP in other contexts is, well, corporate. When EP takes place in the context of the modern corporation, it must play by a very different set of rules than close protection of political or military VIPs and celebrities. Corporate EP managers need to navigate between many interests – often conflicting. The single most important thing is getting the culture right. Culture eats strategy for breakfast No matter what an EP manager may have learned in the …
Every good corporate executive protection program starts with a good Requests for Proposal (RFP). Or should, at least, because the RFP, or request for proposal, is the most powerful document the corporation has to structure the bidding process and improve the transparency of competing bidders’ advantages and disadvantages. All organizations have their own purchasing policies and procedures, and most will probably already have guidelines and templates regarding RFPs. Few corporations have much experience in …
In addition to the hard skills that are most often discussed, successful executive protection agents possess a number of other characteristics that can be broadly described as soft skills or personality traits. In this blog, we outline the 10 traits that set apart high-performing executive protection agents from the less-great. Many are interrelated; all are important. When an individual agent displays most or all of these traits strongly, he or she would make a highly successful executive protection agent …
Considering the many challenges of starting up a corporate EP program, it’s no wonder that some are more successful than others. Some programs never get off the ground in the right way, and some become outright failures. A company and its principle might decide that EP is not for them. In most cases, however, just because a company’s current EP program is not performing as expected does not mean that its underlying objective – the principle’s safety, productivity and happiness – are no longer a priority. …
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