The seventh annual ESA Leadership Summit wrapped up a few weeks ago, sending the more than 250 security industry professionals who attended back to their companies will their minds full of information, strategies, new contacts and more — all of which ESA carefully crafted to help security businesses not just survive, but thrive.
With an emphasis on content that was outside the mainstream of typical security events, the summit featured a roster of speakers from both in and outside of the industry. Keynote speakers included Mary Byers, co-author of “Race for Relevance: Five Radical Changes for Associations”; Ted Powell, a business consultant and facilitator; Bjorn Jensen and Peter Shipp, experts from the custom electronics industry; Steve Bookbinder, CEO of Digital Media Training; and Doug Anson, retired major general of the U.S. Army reserves. The topics on which they spoke ranged from cybersecurity to managing successful sales teams to national security in the post-9/11 world.