The document discusses choosing to lead in the information security profession. It encourages the reader to start with finding their purpose, establish habits of self-growth, and choose a compelling vision. It emphasizes including and serving others by inspiring a movement for change through leadership every day and leaving a lasting legacy. Resources for growing as a leader and inspiring others are provided.

1. Choose to Lead
The Information Security
Profession Needs You!

2. Overview
• Start with Why
• Grow Yourself
• Lead a Tribe
• Inspire a Movement
• Change the World
• Leave a Legacy

3. About …

4. About Me

5. @pjbeyer

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17. About Expectations

18. Not an Expert

19. Not Comprehensive

20. Not a Lecture

21. About Leadership

22. “If your actions inspire
others to dream more, learn
more, do more and become
more, you are a leader.”
- John Quincy Adams

23. It isn’t About

24. It isn’t About
• Your role
• Your thoughts
• The next great idea

25. It is About

26. It is About
• Your actions
• Taking initiative
• Our profession’s future

27. Lead In Place

28. Start with Why

29. “People don’t buy what
you do, they buy Why
you do it.”
- Simon Sinek

30. Sinek’s Golden Circle

31. WhatHowWhy

32. Here is Mine

33. What is Yours

34. Grow Yourself

35. Stop

36. Stop
• Most of us are heads down all the time
• Pick your head up and look around

37. Beyond Our
Profession

38. Beyond Our Profession
• You’ve probably figured out how to learn
InfoSec
• The people we work with are not in InfoSec
• The world is a bigger place

39. Be Habitual

40. Be Habitual
• Covey’s 7th Habit - “Sharpen the Saw”
• Continuously improve yourself

41. Be Productive

42. Get things done

43. Be Healthy

44. Be Healthy
• Knowledge work can consume us
• Balance and renew your resources, energy,
and health
• Create a sustainable, long-term, effective
lifestyle

45. Lead a Tribe

46. Seeking Motivated
Individuals

47. Seeking Motivated
Individuals
• Attendance is voluntary
• Motivation is what matters
• Identify an interesting problem to solve
• Passion will follow action

48. Size Doesn’t Matter

49. Size Doesn’t Matter
• Tribes are big and small
• Everyone is a member of a tribe

50. Permission Not
Required

51. Permission Not
Required
• Are you waiting for permission?
• No one anoints you as leader

52. Hope Is Required

53. Hope Is Required
• Cynicism is a lousy strategy
• Without hope there is no future

54. “A big part of leadership is the
ability to stick with the dream long
enough that the critics realize
you're going to get there one way
or another... so they follow.”
- Seth Godin

55. Why You

56. Why You
• It’s your choice
• Are there thousands of reasons why you’re not
the right person?
• YES … so what

57. Inspire a Movement

58. The Wrong Question

59. The Wrong Question
What is the risk-free way to insinuate myself into
the system so I get approval for change?

60. Combat Fear

61. “The secret to being wrong
isn't to avoid being wrong...
the secret is being willing to
be wrong.”
- Seth Godin

62. Combat Fear
• Fear keeps us creating boring and
unremarkable things
• Create something that critics will criticize

63. Serve Others

64. “What makes a good leader, is
that they eschew the spotlight in
favor of spending time and energy
to do what they need to do to
support and protect their people.”
- Simon Sinek

65. “The only thing our leaders ever
need to do is remember whom
they serve and it will be an honor
and a pleasure to serve them
back.”
- Simon Sinek

66. Here’s Your Checklist

67. Here’s Your Checklist
• Am I working to Influence rather than force?
• Am I working to Build Up rather than tear
down?
• Am I building Trust?
• Do I regularly Sacrifice?

68. Cast Your Vision

69. Cast Your Vision
• Begin with a vision
• Make that vision greater than scarcity
• All movements start simply but aspire greatly
• Paint a picture of the future… Go there…
People will follow

70. Change the World

71. First

72. First
• Leaders go first
• All you need is to initiate
• If you wait for optimum conditions, you’ll never
start
• Here’s a starting point…
• Find leaders, and then amplify their work

73. Last

74. Last
• Leaders eat last
• Serve others
• Covey’s 5th Habit - “Seek First to Understand,
Then to be Understood”

75. Everyday

76. Everyday
• Don’t make leadership about changing the
world
• Make it something you expect of yourself and
others everyday

77. You’re In Good
Company

78. You’re In Good
Company
• DevOps
• I am the Cavalry
• Security B-Sides

79. Leave a Legacy

80. Build It to Last

81. Build It to Last
• Measure a leader by what they leave behind

82. Give Back

83. Give Back
• Mentor others
• Coach your peers
• Encourage and support each other

84. Embrace the Vacuum

85. Embrace the Vacuum
• Sometimes you have to move on to make
progress
• Create opportunity for new leaders

86. Call to Action

87. Begin with Purpose

88. Establish a Habit of
Healthy Growth

89. Choose a
Compelling Vision

90. Include Others

91. Make It Happen

92. We Need You
to Lead Us

93. Leverage Resources

94. @pjbeyer

95. Grow Yourself

96. Grow Yourself
Resources
• Todd Henry
• “The Accidental Creative” / “Die Empty”
• @toddhenry http://www.toddhenry.com/
• Michael Bungay Stanier
• “Do More Great Work”
• @boxofcrayons http://www.boxofcrayons.biz/
• David Allen
• “Getting Things Done”
• @gtdguy http://gettingthingsdone.com/

97. Lead a Tribe

98. Lead a Tribe
Resources
• Michael Hyatt
• “Intentional Leadership” (blog)
• @michaelhyatt http://michaelhyatt.com/
• Seth Godin
• “Tribes”
• @thisissethsblog http://www.sethgodin.com/
• Mark Horstman & Mike Auzenne
• “Manager Tools” (podcast with detailed notes)
• @mahorstman @mauzenne http://www.manager-tools.com/

99. Inspire a Movement

100. Inspire a Movement
Resources
• Robert Cialdini
• “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion”
• @robertcialdini
http://www.influenceatwork.com/robert-cialdini-phd/
biography/
• Simon Sinek
• “Start with Why” / “Leaders Eat Last”
• @simonsinek https://www.startwithwhy.com/

101. Change the World
Leave a Legacy

102. Change the World
Resources
• Jim Collins
• “Built to Last” / “Good to Great”
• http://www.jimcollins.com/
• John Maxwell
• “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”
• @johnmaxwellco http://www.johnmaxwell.com/
• Peter Drucker
• “The Effective Executive”
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker

103. Change the World
Resources
• Gene Kim
• “The Phoenix Project”
• @realgenekim http://www.realgenekim.me/
• Eliyahu Goldratt
• “The Goal”
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_M._Goldratt

104. Questions?
!
Discussion!
@pjbeyer
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