Blogs
Building emotional firewalls against social engineering attacks
I remember when we got our first computer. I was 13-year-old. Although in my mind it looked like a Macintosh, it was a second-hand computer like the ones you saw at the doctor's practice. At that time, it felt exhilarating to have an electronic device at all! The...
Cyber Transformations: The Leadership Approach through EQ
What’s the correlation between protecting your cyber preparedness and readiness strategy and emotional intelligence ? That’s what we exercised and discussed today as part of WSBI-ESBG and Global Cyber Alliance regional training webinar for Central Europe and Asia....
Three Ways to Leverage Emotional Intelligence and Minimize Cyber Risk Through Human Vulnerability
Working through the cloud and on virtual networks brings specific vulnerabilities, such as cyber attacks—more due to human error than working through the cloud itself. For example, in the UK alone, human error caused 90% of cyber data breaches in 2019, according to a...
Cyber Transformation: From Strategy to Operations
How confident are you that your organization is fully equipped to avert, counter and respond to a cyber crisis? According to a survey by the Boston Consulting Group, the financial sector is 300x more likely than any other industry to get attached. Human...
Preparing future leaders to navigate cyber crisis simulations through EQ!
I was privileged to design and facilitate an EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Crisis Simulation Workshop for the German Marshall Fund's Leadership Lab with rising leaders from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The workshop included two half-days interactive crisis...
Personal Leadership in the Face of Disruption
“The Philosophy of Personal Leadership: a set of beliefs, values, and principles that strongly influences how we interpret reality and guide our understanding of influencing humans. It’s our philosophy, our understanding, and interpretation of leadership, that affects...
Team building through Crisis Simulations for the European Commission
On Thursday 12 December, I designed and facilitated a team building workshop for the European Commission focused on exercising team collaboration in high pressure environments. The afternoon workshop consisted of a crisis scenario simulation based on exercising...
