Jeremy Strozer

CEO @Strozer Ltd.

ActorResearcherExecutive Coach✔️ ITBusiness Owner🗿 HR🧨 Consulting🎥 Entertainment🏦 Finance🧮 EducationAuthorTraining&Development SpecialistAdvisor

With more than 25 years of experience as a researcher and strategic planner, I leverage deep international security, corporate, and organizational development insight with improvisational acting skills to connect, translate, and solve for the future across multiple domains and contexts. As a neurodivergent lateral thinking Fulbright scholar, I have a unique perspective and approach to creating and communicating a range of realities and plans to success within any of them. My mission is to teach, inspire, and empower through storytelling. A highly effective research and strategy leader, I have a demonstrated record of achievement in the successful formulation, communication, and execution of business strategies. I define and socialize a company’s strategic direction organization-wide, secure buy-in from key stakeholders, prioritize tasks, and maintain momentum, all while observing and responding to market changes and identifying new opportunities. I leverage my background in research to combine analytical and subjective data to create compelling stories and develop innovative ideas. I most recently served as Head of Strategic Planning & Operations, Information Security with Novartis, where I led all strategic planning and operations for the company’s 1400-person information security group. Prior to joining Novartis, I served in leadership roles with Gartner, where I led a high-performance team of 90 and contributed $80M in bottom-line revenue to the organization. In addition, some of the major highlights of my career include the following achievements: • Pioneered Gartner’s CISO Effectiveness work, establishing a cross-industry forum and acclaimed research product that became the genesis of a 40% increase in revenue for my teams. • Launched Improv@Gartner and Fulbright@Gartner, which taught improvisation to 300+ employees across 40 teams to significantly enhance strategic communication, teamwork, and creative ideation. • Spearheaded an intelligence sharing consortium at Carnegie Mellon University, enhancing c

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Work Background

Strozer Ltd.Chief Executive Officer

Jan. 2022County Clare, IrelandServe in leadership role to provide business and consulting services to clients to execute strategic capabilities and implementation plans to facilitate short- and long-term operating success. Leverage applied improvisation, gaming, strategic communications, and team development to manage and deliver full project lifecycles across clients’ portfolios. Act as trusted advisor in consulting, aiding organizations in developing strategic plans.

The Good Enough EmpireContent Creator

Jan. 2013Ennis, County Clare, IrelandCreate and disseminate best practice content across multiple channels. Write and distribute books, audiobooks, podcasts, and videos. Manage projects from inception to completion, overseeing planning, scope, and risk assessment. Achieve success with 4 published books, surpassing 100 podcast episodes, and releasing 90 YouTube videos featuring specialized content.

Wild Atlantic TheatreArtistic Director

Jan. 2023Ennis, County Clare, IrelandI lead Wild Atlantic Theatre's education and entertainment efforts across Ireland's Wild Atlantic West Coast. We produce workshops, trainings, courses, and shows to help those who are working to find their voice, communicate, and relearn how to play.

GartnerManaging Vice President

Jan. 2021 - Jan. 2022County Clare, IrelandLed teams in enhancing situational awareness and risk resilience for CISOs while advancing business-led security strategies. Streamlined research operations, promoting synergy between research and advisory divisions. Drove organisational growth and research proficiency, culminating in successfully orchestrating Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summits. Managed team of 80.

GartnerVice President, Team Manager

Apr. 2018 - Apr. 2021IrelandLed multiple research groups empowering Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) as front-line leaders in the geopolitical-economic struggle of holistic warfare. My teams trained and equipped CISOs to realize situational awareness, organizational risk resilience, business led security practices, and personal effectiveness. • Transformed Client Experiences – Led the evolution of Gartner Security and Risk Management Summits to turn them into integrative, collaborative, and immersive experiences for all participants. This included working across the globe with events staff, research leads, and strategists on new formats, delivery methods, and means of participation. Directed the CISO Coalition which was by CISOs for CISOs, creating a skill, idea, and experience sharing forum to empower CISOs through learning from their counterparts across industries. • Inspired research – Motivated researchers through teaching, idea exposure and generation, and disparate dot connection. Created Improv@Gartner as well as Fulbright@Gartner to bring in new ideas, turn those ideas into research concepts, and build them into teachable solutions for our clients. • Directed Research Teams – Top management authority over two peer and practitioner teams supporting CISOs in their work. My teams produced highly valued content generating more than $35 M in revenue for the company. • Generator of Insight – Blazed the latest ideas and capabilities in the information security space, pushing my teams to turn these ideas into powerful frame-breaking teachings for our clients.

NovartisHead of Strategic Planning and Operations

Jan. 2022 - Jan. 2022Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandDirected strategic planning, budget management, and staffing for 1400-person information security team in chief of staff role to chief information security officer [CISO]. Prepared board reports, crafted performance KPIs, and monitored metrics to gauge effectiveness of information security measures. Led 3 successful rightsizing initiatives in 6 months, balancing operational maintenance with financial stewardship. Prepared Board reporting, performance KPIs, and tracked against metrics to determine effectiveness of IS. Began the creation of a stronger function culture and collaborative community before corporate restructuring away from Ireland abbreviated this opportunity and the potential long-term changes I could bring to the organization.

Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon UniversityEXO-ENDOPARACOLOGIST - RESEARCHER/ INSTRUCTOR/ ADVISOR/ PROGRAM MANAGER

Oct. 2011 - Apr. 2018Arlington, Virginia, United StatesLed research to uncover the nexus between internal and external threats to organizations, providing resolutions to ensure resilience. Advised and assisted organizations with strategic program development and implementation. Developed and delivered instructional courses focused on preventing, detecting, and mitigating malicious and unintentional threats. • Research Direction: Authored the Foundational Study, and all subsequent reports, of the Unintentional Insider Threat. • Instructional Creation: Became lead instructor on a range of courses with consistent glowing reviews of presentation skills, relatability through storytelling, and ease of knowledge transfer. • Strategic Planning & Development: Directed planning processes to develop Insider Threat Programs at multiple organizations across the Federal Government and private sector. • Community and Capability Development: Led a program to empower the private sector in global cyber situational awareness. - Established a private sector coalition of around twenty Fortune 100 companies to provide analytic conclusions of network anomalies to an in-house developed cyber intelligence lab. - Built a highly trained analytic team to leverage commercial and intelligence community best practices, tools, and methodologies. - Created an iterative and evolving best practices capture process for multi-source intelligence analysis, analytics, and analytic methodology to enhance private sector and government capabilities to conduct cyber intelligence. - Conducted many security and risk assessments against public and private sector organizations

Water Dragons Consulting LLCVice President

Jan. 2016 - Jan. 2018SingaporePrepared international government and private sector clients to conduct strategic cyber intelligence operations.

Dynamis, Inc.Director, International Security Programs

Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2011Arlington, Virginia, United StatesEstablished consultancy focused on guiding foreign and domestic clients through strategic planning in security matters. Contributed expertise in crisis planning and response training, coupled with rigorous research into global security developments. Analyzed and presented time series assessments of international security trends to Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Director of Net Assessments in the United States. • Process Creation and Implementation: Designed and implemented scenario-based strategic planning processes to produce the 2013-2018 Strategic Plan for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). • Business Development: Won over $7.5 million worth of contracts with U.S. and international partners. • Research Direction: Directed the creation, analysis and delivery of comprehensive time series assessments of international security trends for the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Director of Net Assessments.

CSCResearch Director

Jan. 2005 - Jan. 2009Alexandria, Virginia, United StatesDirected key research initiatives, producing pivotal security trend assessments and country risk reports for DTRA. Fostered collaboration, cultivating strong ties with key clients. Steered a diverse team of 3 writers, 2 editors, and 16 researchers, driving productivity and engagement. Applied management expertise to deliver incisive research, securing follow-on contracts through demonstrated impact.

U.S. Department of StateIntelligence Officer

Aug. 2003 - Jan. 2005Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesIntelligence Officer, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) - Provided real-time and over-the-horizon intelligence on The People’s Republic of China (PRC) to decision makers within the State Department and across the Intelligence Community (IC). o INR representative on the 2004 National Intelligence Estimate assessing the foreign policy of the PRC. o INR representative to the U.S. Government Avian Flu Task Force.

U.S. Department of StateProgram Manager

Sep. 2002 - Aug. 2003Washington, District of Columbia, United States- Managed seventeen on-site advisers and representatives from across the interagency to deliver over $50 million in cooperative counterproliferation assistance program funds in fifteen countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Baltics, and Balkans. o Served as the U.S. delegate to the successful negotiations of the Regional Transit Agreement for the Caucasus and Central Asia.

U.S. Department of StateMine Action Officer

Sep. 2001 - Sep. 2002Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam- Planned, programmed and distributed humanitarian demining assistance funds through cooperative engagement with the Vietnamese government, international organizations, partner countries, and other donors. o Planned, programmed and distributed humanitarian demining assistance throughout Southeast Asia. o Carried out negotiations with various governments to conduct mine-impact surveys and write Vietnam’s first internationally-coordinated Mine Action County Plan. o Wrote Vietnam’s first comprehensive and internationally coordinated Mine Action Country Plan. o Achieved agreement with the Ministry of Defense to conduct a countrywide mine-impact survey.

U.S. Department of StateNATO Policy Officer

Sep. 2000 - Sep. 2001Washington, District of Columbia, United States- Developed material and guidance for future NATO summits. - Worked with NATO Partners to build-out Partnership For Peace Initiative - Coordinated with European Union staff on NATO-EU Cooperation

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