Speaking and training

Briefings that change what the room does next.

Evidence, field experience, and a clear line between what is known and what is assessed. Built for executives, policymakers, scientists, and students who have to act on what they hear.

Topics

No common operating picture

Why the United States cannot see disease in real time, what the H5N1 and measles records show, and the task force that would fix it.

When institutions protect themselves

Lessons from EcoHealth Alliance and the pandemic origins record: how oversight fails and what a whistleblower actually sees.

Proof before fielding

The Army is adopting military AI faster than it can test it. Medicine already built the fix.

AI in biosecurity

What the models can see, what they cannot, and how to govern them without slowing the mission.

Food defense

The attack surface nobody budgets for: agroterrorism, adulteration, and supply chain fragility.

Security that makes us freer

Eleven rules for national security, and the Liberty Test and Risk Ledger that every proposal has to pass.

Formats

Keynote (30 to 60 minutes). Closed-door executive briefing (90 minutes). Panel. Half-day workshop. University and professional courses.

Briefed and taught at

  • FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  • DHS Government and Sector Coordinating Councils
  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • Battelle Memorial Institute
  • Grocery Manufacturers Association Food Defense Working Group
  • Classified executive briefings for senior United States government officials on behalf of Sandia National Laboratories (2013 to 2014)
  • George Washington University Law School, National Security Program (guest lecturer)
  • Columbia University, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (adjunct faculty, 2014 to 2022)

Media

Opinion contributor, The Hill. Interviews on Fox News, Fox Business, The Tucker Carlson Show, and Ask Dr. Drew. Appears in the documentary Thank You, Dr. Fauci (2025). Full list under Books and Media.

Reach

Risk Factor newsletter, 25,000+ subscribers. 129,000+ followers on X.

Courses available for delivery

Thirty-six courses developed and taught across security, public health, food systems, technology, and leadership. Each can be delivered as a semester course, a short course, or a professional certificate module.

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Security and risk

  • Vulnerability, Risk, and Threat Assessment and Management
  • Enterprise Risk Analysis
  • Risk and Crisis Communication
  • Security Science and Technologies Foundations
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • Behavioral Threat Analysis
  • Security Theory and Methods
  • Security Policy
  • Dual Use Technologies and Export Control
  • Agroterrorism

Biosecurity and public health

  • Biosurveillance
  • Epidemiological Methods
  • Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
  • Emerging Infectious Disease Ecology
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Design and Conduct of Observational Clinical Trials
  • Public Health Policy
  • Corporate and Government Medical Practice
  • Navigating Regulatory Affairs and Approval

Food systems

  • Food Protection and Defense
  • Applied Food Safety
  • Complex Food Systems

Technology and AI

  • AI Methods and Applications
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Complex Systems Analysis
  • Technology Forecasting
  • Future Technology Strategy
  • Enterprise Technology Leadership
  • Leading Technology Businesses
  • Intellectual Property Strategy

Leadership and enterprise

  • Enterprise Leadership
  • Executive Operations
  • Tactical Negotiations
  • Creating Organizational Culture
  • Professional Ethics

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