The Center for Connected Intelligence
The Executive Council
Lead with the perspective and backing of a trusted peer network.
A trusted place to compare notes, tackle challenges, and learn from peers who understand your job.
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Bring your perspective to the community
The Executive Council is for senior security leaders who value candid exchange, useful relationships, and the opportunity to help shape the conversation.
Tell us about your role, the priorities you are working through, and what you hope to learn or contribute.
What Happens Next
Why it Exists
Better decisions start with the right people around you.
Security leadership can be isolating. The issues move quickly, the information is rarely complete, and the consequences are real.
Benchmark with peers who understand your role
Compare approaches with vetted No. 1 and No. 2 security leaders in a private setting. Discuss questions you can’t easily work through internally.
Work through the challenges you’re facing now
Bring your questions to discussions informed by member priorities, emerging developments, and the Center’s research. Hear what peers are doing and what’s working.
Help shape the conversation across the profession
Your experience and questions can help inform the topics explored through the Center’s research, expert discussions, and wider programming, while respecting the confidentiality of Council conversations.
FACES OF THE COMMUNITY
The leaders who help bring the community together.
Our community champions initiate timely discussions, moderate candid exchange, host experiences, and connect members with one another.
They bring experience across federal service, global enterprises, technology, protective intelligence, executive protection, investigations, insider risk, and security transformation.
What Membership Includes
One community. Multiple ways to engage.
The Executive Council is designed as one continuous experience, not a collection of one-off events.
Members can access all community offerings and tailor their participation around location, industry, interests, and priorities.
Private peer discussions
Recurring virtual conversations with senior security leaders about issues relevant to their programs and responsibilities.
A members-only community
A private space to stay connected, raise questions, share perspectives, and continue conversations between gatherings.
Priority invites to regional executive dinners
In-person opportunities to build relationships and exchange perspectives with peers in a smaller setting.
An annual gathering at Summit
A dedicated opportunity for Council members to connect in person at Ontic’s Connected Intelligence Summit.
Research and expert perspectives
Access to the Center’s research, benchmarks, and expert perspectives, with opportunities to help inform future discussion topics.
OUR COMMUNITY DIFFERENTIATORS
Built for candor, contribution, and continued connection.
Your time goes toward the conversation, not the coordination.
Ontic handles planning, scheduling, programming, and follow-up. We invest in making each interaction worth your time so you can focus on exchanging ideas, learning from peers, and getting back to your day job.
A vetted community built for candid exchange.
Members connect with senior leaders who understand the responsibilities of running a security program. Conversations follow the Chatham House Rule, creating a framework for exchanging perspectives without public attribution.
No vendor pitches. No sales agenda. No requirement to be an Ontic client.
Conversations grounded in what matters now.
The Council is designed to go beyond familiar talking points. Discussions draw on emerging developments, original research, and the specific questions members are navigating.
Instead of another broad conversation about industry trends, the focus is on what peers are doing, what’s working, and what others can learn.
Next on the Calendar
Upcoming Council experiences
Continue the conversation through regional gatherings, virtual roundtables, rapid-response discussions, and The Executive Council at Ontic Summit.
New experiences are added throughout the year, giving members the flexibility to participate in the moments most relevant to their role, location, and priorities.