Refreshing Leadership
S2.22: Breaking the Mold in a Male-Dominated Domain: Fearless Leadership in the Security Sector with Letitia Emeana ASIS CPP, PSP and CISMP
As you can imagine, Security is a male-dominated world, recruiting often from police and military veterans (who are predominantly male). So I resonated strongly with some of the issues Letitia was struggling with when she coached with me a few years ago. I’m super proud of her courage and stance on making such an important profession more open and accessible not just to women, but all minority groups.
ASIS International is a global community of security practitioners who are trained, certified and professionals in the protection of assets - people, property, and/or information.
She’s fun, bubbly, and atypical in several different ways (see if you can spot them!). We chat about her early formative life experiences and the various helpers and guides she found along the way to her current senior role in corporate security, as well as her repeated election as UK ASIS Chapter Chairwoman and Board Director.
In particular she shares her experience of finding professional help to identify the best colours and styles of clothes for her. As a petite woman in a roomful of men, she was more often asked if she was from communications, or catering, than recognised as the keynote speaker. While she laughed this off, it wasn’t doing her confidence much good.
She describes the game changing experience of getting a professional colour and personal image consultant in boosting both her inner self confidence and outer self expression, and in the episode we promise to give you the links, so if you’d like to follow this up check out the consultant she mentions https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceymoys/ or the website where you can find a consultant near you https://www.houseofcolour.co.uk/find-consultant or https://www.houseofcolour.com/find-consultant
Some timestamps:
00:00 A Surprise career path.
07:23 Experience in sports contributed to leadership skills.
11:22 Stepping up to lead and inspire change.
17:58 Historical context shapes perceptions of security roles.
23:46 Inclusion and care for employees in workplace.
28:45 Focus on physical aspects of cyber threat.
37:27 Balancing risk, storytelling, influence, business acumen, enforcement.
41:28 Dress influences perception and professional expression.
47:42 Ready to break out of old self.
50:05 Building trust through authentic, consistent behavior is key.
56:09 Discovering color helped confidence, transformed wardrobe journey.
If you enjoyed this or found it useful please subscribe on the show website, https://refreshingleadership.buzzsprout.com/
You can listen on most platforms, or scroll through all the episodes on my website here.
I write a companion blog to each episode - they are all on my website here.
Do please share this link, and if you'd like, give it a rating or leave a review (wherever you listen) will help the podcast reach more people.
Thank you!
To continue the conversation go to:
Website: https://katebrassington.com/ (where you can easily message me)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-brassington/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katebrassingto3
Email: kate@katebrassington.com
As you can imagine, Security is a male-dominated world, recruiting often from police and military veterans (who are predominantly male). So I resonated strongly with some of the issues Letitia was struggling with when she coached with me a few years ago. I’m super proud of her courage and stance on making such an important profession more open and accessible not just to women, but all minority groups.
ASIS International is a global community of security practitioners who are trained, certified and professionals in the protection of assets - people, property, and/or information.
She’s fun, bubbly, and atypical in several different ways (see if you can spot them!). We chat about her early formative life experiences and the various helpers and guides she found along the way to her current senior role in corporate security, as well as her repeated election as UK ASIS Chapter Chairwoman and Board Director.
In particular she shares her experience of finding professional help to identify the best colours and styles of clothes for her. As a petite woman in a roomful of men, she was more often asked if she was from communications, or catering, than recognised as the keynote speaker. While she laughed this off, it wasn’t doing her confidence much good.
She describes the game changing experience of getting a professional colour and personal image consultant in boosting both her inner self confidence and outer self expression, and in the episode we promise to give you the links, so if you’d like to follow this up check out the consultant she mentions https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceymoys/ or the website where you can find a consultant near you https://www.houseofcolour.co.uk/find-consultant or https://www.houseofcolour.com/find-consultant
Some timestamps:
00:00 A Surprise career path.
07:23 Experience in sports contributed to leadership skills.
11:22 Stepping up to lead and inspire change.
17:58 Historical context shapes perceptions of security roles.
23:46 Inclusion and care for employees in workplace.
28:45 Focus on physical aspects of cyber threat.
37:27 Balancing risk, storytelling, influence, business acumen, enforcement.
41:28 Dress influences perception and professional expression.
47:42 Ready to break out of old self.
50:05 Building trust through authentic, consistent behavior is key.
56:09 Discovering color helped confidence, transformed wardrobe journey.
If you enjoyed this or found it useful please subscribe on the show website, https://refreshingleadership.buzzsprout.com/
You can listen on most platforms, or scroll through all the episodes on my website here.
I write a companion blog to each episode - they are all on my website here.
Do please share this link, and if you'd like, give it a rating or leave a review (wherever you listen) will help the podcast reach more people.
Thank you!
To continue the conversation go to:
Website: https://katebrassington.com/ (where you can easily message me)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-brassington/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katebrassingto3
Email: kate@katebrassington.com