The Life Safety Alliance (LSA), an organization committed to improving global life safety and security through best practices, networking and collaborations, launched the Executive Women’s Leadership Council (EWLC). This strategic initiative is designed to elevate senior women leaders and transform individual excellence into collective industry advancement across the global security and life safety ecosystem.

LSA’s EWLC will bring together senior women leaders with decades of experience at the intersection of business strategy, operational leadership and security expertise. Through structured mentorship, cross-organizational collaboration and shared research, the council is designed to create lasting, systemic change for women at every stage of their careers in security and life safety.

“The Executive Women’s Leadership Council exists because experience is the industry’s most underutilized asset,” said Kasia Hanson, vice president of strategic partnerships, Alcatraz and chair of the Executive Women’s Leadership Council. “We have extraordinary women in this industry who have spent decades solving hard problems and building high-performing organizations. This council creates the structure to turn that wisdom into a force multiplier for the women coming up behind us, for the organizations we serve, and for the profession as a whole.”

The Council will operate across three core pillars:

• Untapped Wisdom, capturing decades of lived experience in business leadership and security operations
• Organized Collaboration, partnering with associations, academic institutions and research bodies to centralize training and best practices
• Industry Advancement, driving systemic progress through shared insights, advocacy and innovation that blends business strategy with security resilience.

Key focus areas for the Council include mentorship excellence, technology innovation, talent pipeline development and industry elevation, each designed to strengthen organizational performance while advancing the careers of women across the profession.

“The launch of the Executive Women’s Leadership Council is a natural extension of LSA’s mission,” said Becky Lane, acting CEO, LSA. “Women have always been central to advancing this industry as innovators, as operators and as leaders. The EWLC gives us a dedicated platform to ensure that contribution is recognized, amplified and built upon. This is exactly the kind of initiative that moves the profession forward.”