The Great Conversation

Carlos Francisco spent 21 years at Walt Disney Company informing and infusing his leadership principles. Today he is an executive at Facebook with a new book launching around the same time as this podcast: “So You Want to Get into Corporate Security”. We have a great conversation around putting the magic in your personal and professional life through the Magic Keys.

You also can hear Carlos have his own great conversations through his podcast The Corporate Security Translator The Corporate Security Translator Podcast | Podcast on Spotify

Seen by his industry as a thought leader, we have a great conversation with Morgan Hertel, the Vice President of Technology, and Innovation of Rapid Response Monitoring Services. He lets us get up close and really see how he has continued to innovate within his company.

One of the first things we explore is Natural Language Processing (NLP) and how he applied it early on. At first the customer base was confused. They had little experience with voice enabled systems. Like many innovations, they had to experience it. Morgan takes us through this transition and the powerful new trends using voice and audio that are happening today and in the future.

Morgan is in the Audio and Intelligent Communications Working Group of the Security Industry Association (SIA).

Mark Demos has a unique gift. He helps people have the confidence, courage, and the tools to find themselves. He wrote a book called The DNA Code: The Forensics of Purpose, Passion and Performance, is the defining work for discovering your Life Purpose. Using the most innovative, exciting, and scientifically comprehensive discovery process of the 21st Century, Positive Forensics, you will discover the hard-wired DNA Talent Markers that map out your life path.

The DNA Code will give you the pathway to profile your purpose and predict your future success.

We discuss the top 10 questions we should be asking ourselves to challenge our assumptions of who we should be and what we should do.

I used this title for the podcast because the gentlemen I asked to join me in a conversation, presented several times at The Great Conversation over the years. And he was always piercing the veil of convention to get to the truth. I called him a muckraker in the podcast. A little history: muckrakers were reform-minded journalists who reported on the irregularities in established institutions and leaders of their day.

The term now references investigative journalism.

Steve Hunt has always sought the truth.

Our great conversation leverages his work with Communities of Excellence, online mentoring platform for security and cybersecurity professionals as well as his survey of over 400 organizations where he sought to understand what made them cyber resilient.

What he found is a leadership lesson that you must hear to appreciate.

Dr. Read Hayes is a research scientist at the University of Florida and the Director of the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC). The University of Florida received two significant grants, one from a leader in artificial intelligence, Nvidia, and the other from the State of Florida that, combined are helping to make the university an elite institution of higher learning. They have an Innovation Square where they are testing new technology and new methods for creating a safe and secure campus. Over 150 companies are paying the LPRC and the university to benchmark these technologies and these emerging best practices so they can leverage technology to make better data driven decisions. We have a great and inspiring conversation that leads us to believe that culturally crossing the chasm of our fear and constraints to a Value Exchange (VX) that values the safety and security of people, is rapidly becoming a reality.

Inge Huijbrechts, Global Senior Vice President Responsible Business and Safety & Security, provides us an insight into how these three domains work together, that is the sum of the parts over each individual strand. We learn how Sustainability, Safety & Security inspire and create awareness in a distributed environment, especially post COVID-19 when Tourism and Travel operate with minimal resources. We learn how we innovate in the built environment to adjust to the new normal post COVID-19. And we learn how the intersection between corporate responsibility and security become a force multiplier for risk mitigation.

Tim Wenzel, Head of Global Security, Privacy Protection, and Jonathon Harris, former Guidepost consultant and now with Group337, provide us their perspective on ESRM. Is this really the framework that establishes relationships with the business as well as acts as the platform for merging risk, TQM, and compliance into an executable strategy and plan?

Dave Komendat, the CSO of Boeing, shares with us how the pandemic confirmed the depth of character, leadership and resilience of his company and his team.

Dave is vice president and Chief Security Officer for The Boeing Company. Appointed in 2008, Komendat is responsible for the company’s global security and fire protection policy and procedures, site security, executive protection, supply chain and aviation security, structural and aircraft fire protection, government and proprietary information security, strategic intelligence, international security, business continuity and disaster preparedness, and security background investigations.

Komendat is also the lead Boeing interface for both national and international security policy engagement with numerous government and industry advisory groups. He currently represents Boeing as president of the International Security Management Association, past co-chairman and current board member on the Domestic Security Alliance Council and serves as a member of the Threats and Information Committee for the Overseas Security Advisory Council.

Komendat holds board leadership roles in many non-profits with missions to protect people within the U.S. and internationally, including Hostage U.S., International Security Foundation, and the Domestic Security Partnership. In 2018, he was awarded the Director’s Award for Exceptional Public Service by FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Komendat graduated from California State University at Long Beach with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice specializing in industrial security and is a graduate of the executive development program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Komendat joined Boeing as an industrial security specialist in 1986.