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Want to nudge your team’s culture towards its potential, need an energizing facilitator/MC/keynote speaker for your next event, conference, or retreat?

Try me –> hi (at) resilience dot sh or LinkedIn or Twitter/X

Iif you’re an NGO, non-profit, or small-medium business, please don’t shy away, I’m not as expensive as you might think. We may be a great fit.

Why I Might Be An Interesting, Unexpected, and Exciting Choice

I design for failure — on purpose.

TL;DR I’m a humble and contributing member of the Information Security Team at Kraken, where I hover above cryptocurrency, resilience engineering, and human behavior as they collide. My primary charter is as regent and champion of the Kraken value of being “Productively Paranoid”— as a design principle and a survival trait.

I challenge teams to focus on the productive part of being Productively Paranoid, by broadening perspective, outpacing risk, interrogating ease, and owning our exposures before they own us—and build with the presumption that failure isn’t an if but a when.

Also, untethered paranoia will destroya.

In front of a green screen, this is a candid photo of Chad Calease at work as the cultural regent and champion of Kraken's value of being, "Productively Paranoid."

Each presentation is unique, bent to the will of your Board, Team, and/or Topic.

Board Presentations are excitement-driven and open up diverse audiences to new ideas.

Team Presentations are fun, moving, focused on transforming something.

Topic-Driven Presentations are bent to your will, such as:

  • Resilience Engineering : Armor Your Business & People For Unplanned Events
  • Digital Assets : Landing On The Moons of Financial Futures
  • Whoops Upside Yer Head : Threat Modeling for the Masses
  • Applied AI/Machine Learning for Everyday People and Business
  • Rising Tide Raises All Boats : Neurodiversity on Teams
  • And lofty stuff, like creativity, engagement, and team-building in innovative, unexpected, and memorable ways

The majority of my recorded presentations were captured at information security conferences and are outnumbered by private ones that were not.

Here are few highlights to try and transmit a sense of my style, in order below: recently presenting at Career Day at my son’s school, lovely note from a discriminating 7th grader (tough crowd I’ll take the W), and some presentation samples.

–> Please get in touch. I’ll make your day and, if we’re well-aligned, a memorable event for your team. Transmit your interest via hi (at) resilience dot sh and LinkedIn or Twitter/X