ISMA-Kellogg: Understanding Security as a Business Asset

Safeguarding people, information, operations and brand requires the corporate security function to be integrated into every aspect of the business. For many senior security professionals, this is a shift in mindset to see security not only as an essential element of enterprise risk management but as a critical business enabler. This course was developed specifically for senior security professionals by The International Security Management Association (ISMA) and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. This course enables participants to develop leading management practices to expand their leadership skills to enable their security team to speak the language of the business and become partners, facilitators, and problem solvers for business leaders across the organization. Outcomes of the program are: • To promote the security function as an integral part of enterprise-level risk management; • To articulate security’s value to any business initiative; Learn to think strategically on how best to lead a security function that supports business objectives; recognize security as a core risk-management and business enabling function; articulate security’s value to the business. • To understand how core business functions identify and create value; • To speak the “language of business” and ask the right questions To be a better partner to other business leaders to understand how core business functions identify and create value; speak the “language of the business” and ask the right questions. • To Influence and gain buy-in from stakeholders. Understand the importance of interfacing with other functional areas in order to influence and gain buy-in from stakeholders by: thinking like a BUSINESS LEADER delivering BUSINESS IMPACT driving or engaging in STRATEGIC CONVERSATIONS developing effective INTRA- AND INTER- ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS