Practitioner-led training for security supervisors, team leads, and EP/protection leads moving into management. Teaches command decision-making under pressure, operational team leadership, threat-led planning, and the written communications executives actually read.
Five outcomes the cohort works toward over three days. Each outcome is tied to a written deliverable and a graded capstone exercise — not lecture attendance.
Frameworks for making defensible decisions when information is incomplete, the timeline is collapsing, and the consequence of being wrong is measured in lives and liability. Covers OODA in command, decision logging under stress, and how to brief upward while still commanding downward.
The written and verbal cadence that holds a team together during a long operational cycle — shift handoffs, situation reports, after-action notes, and the discipline of saying exactly what you mean under fatigue. No buzzwords, no filler.
How to lead a team through a high-stakes engagement and then run the after-action review that actually improves the next one — without letting it turn into a blame session or a morale problem. Includes the AAR template we use internally.
Build a protection or response plan that starts from the threat picture and works backward to resourcing, not the other way around. Most plans fail because they start with the equipment the team already owns. This is the other way.
The one-page executive briefing, the threat advisory, and the incident summary — written so a CEO or general counsel can read it in 90 seconds and act on it. Includes the editing discipline that separates a briefing from a memo.
The Instructor
The Security Leadership course is led by Vigil Advisory's founder — not a contract facilitator and not a content-marketing presenter. The credentials behind the curriculum:
Ammo program management, logistics, civil-military liaison, international operations. Full spectrum military experience, not one rotation and a marketing story.
Command-level supervisory experience. Patrol operations, investigations, fugitive apprehension, courtroom procedure. Not patrol officer turned vendor — the rank speaks for itself.
Elite tactical certifications that most security firms claim as marketing language. These are documented, operational credentials earned in the field.
Designed and managed international law enforcement training programs for the US Department of Justice. That means curriculum development, instructor selection, and cross-cultural program delivery — at scale.
On-site at your facility or delivered virtually with a live instructor. The cohort model means you work the same problems as the rest of the class — peer learning is part of the curriculum, not a side benefit.
Not a quote request — a short conversation. Tell us who you are, what your team looks like, and when you're trying to run the cohort. We'll confirm fit, pick a date, and reserve a seat.