The Defuse Podcast: Beyond Security - The Science of Feeling Safer
🔊 The Defuse Podcast: Personal Threat Management for High-Risk Lives
How do you keep high-profile people safe in a world of escalating threats, online hostility, and real-world harm?
Hosted by Philip Grindell, former Scotland Yard detective and author of Personal Threat Management: The Practitioner’s Guide to Keeping Clients Safer, The Defuse Podcast goes behind the scenes of elite protective strategies used to safeguard prominent individuals, executives, and private clients.
Each episode features candid, expert-led conversations on topics including:
- Stalking, fixated threats, and insider risk
- Protective intelligence and behavioural profiling
- Workplace violence and reputational harm
- Digital vulnerability, doxxing, and OSINT
- Crisis leadership and executive resilience
Whether you're a security professional, family office advisor, C-suite leader, or someone responsible for protecting others, this podcast will give you real-world insight into what works — and what doesn't — when lives and reputations are on the line.
Subscribe now and learn how to manage threats before they become crises.
The Defuse Podcast: Beyond Security - The Science of Feeling Safer
Threat Assessment and Stalking – An Expert Perspective with Gabrielle Thompson
This month's very special guest is Gabrielle Thompson, PI, CPP.
I am delighted to have Gabby as our Christmas guest. Gabby has recently announced that after a glittering 25-year career at Gavin de Becker & Associates (GDBA), she has decided to move on and seek new opportunities.
During her time with GDBA, Gabby acted as the firm's subject matter expert on threat assessment by handling high-risk and critical cases, including inappropriate pursuit, stalking, threats, and harassment, and overseeing threat assessment programs for at-risk individuals. She also led the firm's threat assessment training, influencing thousands of others' careers.
Gabby's career was in part initiated by her own experience of being a victim of stalking. In this podcast, we discuss how this has influenced her management of stalking investigations, with some great insights into how to manage the initial phases of a complaint.
We also discuss what keeps prominent people awake at night, issues of threat management, investigations, the impact of AI and technology and women in the security industry.
This is Gabby's first podcast since leaving GDBA and is not to be missed!
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