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
Crisis Communication with Giles Kenningham MBE
Giles Kenningham is an expert in crisis communication. A former journalist who honed his skills at the sharp end of politics as the strategic advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron shares his thoughts on the relevant issues. In this podcast, we look back at his time in politics, and the Covid pandemic. We then discuss how his consultancy, Trafalgar Strategy, advises their clients, understanding the traps and opportunities, guiding them away from a crisis or helping them avoid one in the first place.
Some of the key questions Giles answers include.
What do you do in a crisis?
How do you respond?
Can you get ahead of the game and pre-empt a crisis?
What impact does Social Media have and how do you use it for positive effect?
How do you manage fake news?
Giles Kenningham MBE is a former Head of Press at Number 10 Downing Street and spokesman to the Prime Minister. He was the Director of Communications for the Conservative Party’s general election win in 2015 leading a team of 40 people. Prior to this he was a special adviser/ press secretary to the Secretary of State for Communities, Local Government and Housing.
He started his career as a journalist in national radio reporting on business and consumer issues for a variety of stations including Classic and Magic FM. He is a former ITV News producer having worked for 3 years on their three main flagship programmes.
Few people entering the sector have his level of experience and insight of dealing with every crisis imaginable. From political scandals to sex scandals, to privacy issues, he has dealt day in day out for 6 years with the issues that have led the TV news bulletins and dominated the newspaper front pages.
Giles regularly appears as a political and media commentator on BBC, Sky & CNN. He also writes for various national publications including the Times and Spectator.
Contact Information: gkenningham@trafalgar-strategy.co.uk
https://www.trafalgar-strategy.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/giles-kenningham-mbe-96515a2/
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