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Former United States Secret Service Special Agent
CNN Law Enforcement Analyst
Enterprise Risk Management Consultant
Security Risk Management Subject Matter Expert
Published Author and News Media Contributor
ABOUT
Jonathan Wackrow is Managing Director of Sentinel Resource Group (SRG), where he advises chief executives, boards and senior leadership teams on security risk, crisis preparedness and executive protection. He spent most of his career as a U.S. Secret Service Special Agent. That included assignment to the Presidential Protective Division, where he planned protective operations for the President and First Lady in the United States and abroad.
Jonathan has been a Law Enforcement Analyst for CNN since 2015, and his commentary appears on NPR and in The Washington Post, The New York Times and Politico. He serves on the U.S. Department of State Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) and the CSIS Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention. He is co-author of The Protector’s Edge: Leadership Through Strategy and Action.
New Book:
The Protector's Edge
Leadership Through Strategy and Action
Jonathan Wackrow speaks to boards, executive teams and industry audiences on how organizations prepare for security crises and lead through them. His programs draw on protective operations he planned for the President and First Lady, more than a decade of live crisis analysis on CNN, and his current advisory work with corporate leadership at Sentinel Resource Group (SRG). Each presentation is built around the audience’s sector and the decisions its leaders face.
Signature topics:
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Leadership as protection: lessons from The Protector’s Edge
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Crisis leadership and communication in the first hours of an incident
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Executive protection in an era of targeted violence
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Risk management planning for large-scale events
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Board-level governance of converged physical and cyber risk
To request Jonathan for a keynote, panel or executive briefing, contact info@wackrow.com.
CHARITABLE ENGAGEMENT
Since 2009, Jonathan and his Family have supported the March of Dimes through Team Taylor Tot, which raises funds for research into premature birth and for families with infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
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Lived Experiences
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
- President Ronald Reagan