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EP 028 John Rodriguez "The Guardian Within: Mental Health and Empathy in Business Security"
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John Rodriguez is the founder of Empathic Security Cultures LLC based in Austin, TX
John brings 41+ years of pure corporate security experience working for major corporations including General Motors, Kimberly-Clark, Levi Strauss & Co., and Cardinal Health. He previously was the CSO for Temple-Inland in Austin, TX. He also owned a consulting firm for 10 years with over 100 Fortune 500® clients from 1995-2004. John’s career started in 1982 as a third shift proprietary security officer with General Motors progressing to positions of higher responsibility up to CSO. He has also worked in Latin America and the Caribbean for 33 years.
While with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, security director for Latin American operations, the company was ranked #1 of 1,900 companies from 2009-2011 by the Great Place to Work Institute® John’s innovative security strategies were recognized by senior leadership as critical contributions to those years of #1 rankings. Business sales ranked 1st or 2nd place in every country of operation.
John’s is a bi-lingual, bi-cultural (Spanish/English) security generalist with passion for security culture development, mentoring, and mental health in the workplace for a psychologically safe workplace and mitigating hostile environment risks. He also developed the Security Culture Professional’s Attributes Model™
(SCPA Model) for the security professional’s character development and their security culture journey.
He holds a Master’s of Liberal Arts, Texas Christian University and a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice, North Texas State University. He completed the Chief Security Officer Executive Development Program, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
He held the ASIS CPP certification for 19 years and the ACFE CFE designation for 16 years.
He has lectured forASIS International, U.S. State Dept. Overseas Advisory Council (OSAC), International Security Management Association (ISMA), and others. For ASIS International, he has been invited to present at the 2023 GSX event in Dallas, TX. This will mark the 8th occasion he has presented at an ASIS Global forum, (5x at GSX, formerly the ASIS International Annual Seminar & Exhibits, 2x global webinars, and 1x article for Security Management magazine - How to Build a Best-in-Class Security Culture - this was 1 of the 12 most read articles in 2022.
Current memberships:
· ASIS International, Co-Lead Mental Wellness Working Group
· U.S. State Dept. Overseas Advisory Council (OSAC)
· Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)
John has mentored security professionals in the U.S. and Latin America for 21 of his 41 years in the profession. Most recently, he was a mentor in the OSAC Women in Security (LATAM) program in 2022.
John is a Certified Family Support Group Facilitator with the National Alliance on Mental Health and gives back to the community by leading support group discussions as well as training at law enforcement academies as part of their Crisis Intervention Team curriculum in the Greater Austin, TX area. John recently earned his facilitator certificate from the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy.
www.EmpathicSecurityCultures.com
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