Designing Global Executive Protection Programs

Executive protection is no longer simply about protecting an individual. It is about protecting leadership continuity, organizational resilience, and the people whose decisions can affect an entire enterprise.

Designing Global Executive Protection Programs provides a practical framework for building, governing, and scaling executive protection in complex global organizations.

Rather than focusing on tactical protection techniques, this book approaches executive protection as an enterprise program-one that must integrate risk management, governance, travel security, protective intelligence, crisis preparedness, privacy, technology, vendors, budgets, metrics, and cross-functional leadership.

Readers will learn how to:

• Build an executive protection program from the ground up
• Develop executive risk profiles and protection tiers
• Establish governance, policies, roles, and decision rights
• Integrate Corporate Security, Legal, HR, Privacy, Procurement, Risk, and executive leadership
• Manage executive travel and global risk
• Evaluate and govern external protection providers
• Prepare for medical emergencies, threats, harassment, geopolitical disruption, and organizational crises
• Address executive exposure created by M&A, divestitures, workforce reductions, litigation, and activism
• Build budgets, KPIs, KRIs, dashboards, and management reviews
• Develop a 30/60/90-day implementation roadmap and first-year operating model
• Assess and improve executive protection program maturity

The book also includes real-world enterprise scenarios, management papers, global program considerations, and a substantial Company Implementation Toolkit containing 15 ready-to-adapt resources, templates, checklists, scorecards, and management tools.

Designed for corporate security professionals, risk leaders, executives, program managers, and organizations establishing or modernizing executive protection capabilities, this is a practical guide to turning executive protection into a disciplined, measurable, and sustainable business function.