Briefings
One page, one question
Each briefing answers a single question about personal risk, in one page, with the reasoning attached. Some are published in full. The instruments are sent on request.
Working instruments. Sent by request.
Travel Security
The five phases of a trip where an executive is least protected and least attentive at the same time, and the decisions that belong in each one.
Before you go · In transit · On arrival · In the room · Leaving
The Job Description
Every other risk owner in your life has a job description. This is the one nobody wrote: what the role owns, its standard, and its review date.
What the role owns · The standard it is held to · Who else needs to know · The review date
The Annual Review
The one executive role with no review date. This is the review: what changed, what is still assumed, what was deferred, and the next date.
What changed this year · What is still assumed · What was deferred, and whether that still holds · The next date
Your Own Org Chart
Draw your organization's risk chart, then draw the same chart for your own life. One row comes back with no name in it.
The risks that have owners · The row with no name · Why it stays empty · Filling it without hiring
Home Protection
The house is the one place your pattern is fully known. Five layers, from the street to the room you sleep in, and the decisions in each.
From the street · The perimeter · The entry points · Inside the house · The people who come to the door
Digital Security
Your digital footprint is what tells someone where you will be. Five areas, from what is already public to what the household leaks.
What is already public · The accounts that matter · The devices · The household · When something is already out
Published in full. Made to be forwarded.
The Five Dimension System
The five dimensions of executive readiness: awareness, avoidance, physical readiness, capability, and context. What each one covers and why the order matters.
For Advisors: Reading a Client's Exposure
How family office advisors, private bankers, and insurance brokers can recognize which clients carry personal-security exposure, and what to do about it.
The Empty Seat
Every executive function has an owner except one. Personal security is the seat no organization fills, and the cost of leaving it empty is paid personally.
What the Detail Does Not Cover
A protection detail is a serious control that covers an itinerary. Your life is not an itinerary. This maps what stays yours and why.
Build or Buy
In-house security or retained advisory is a real decision with real costs on both sides. Most principals make it on instinct and review it never.