Veteran Led.
Nationally Recognized.
Federally Credentialed
The Authority Strategy partners with organizations, agencies, and faith communities to build security programs that hold under pressure - drawing on 40+ years of real-world leadership across federal law enforcement, emergency management, and critical infrastructure protection.
The Authority Strategy partners with organizations, agencies, and faith communities to build security programs that hold under pressure - drawing on 40+ years of real-world leadership across federal law enforcement, emergency management, and critical infrastructure protection.
Speaking & Training (Corporate|Goverment)
Founder & principal advisor
Curtis E. Jones
Strategic advisor · Speaker · Security & emergency management leader
Forty years of federal law enforcement, homeland security, and enterprise security program leadership - delivered as keynotes, workshops, and executive training built for boardrooms and government agencies, not just security teams.
Curtis E. Jones has spent more than four decades at the intersection of federal law enforcement, military service, emergency management, and executive leadership.
He founded The Authority Strategy on a single conviction: that the organizations best positioned to survive pressure are the ones that build resilience before they need it.
Today Curtis serves as a trusted advisor to corporate executives, government officials, and faith leaders - bringing federally credentialed expertise and real operational experience to every engagement, keynote, and advisory relationship.
The advisor
A strategic voice at the highest levels
Curtis doesn't arrive at the table as a vendor - he arrives as a peer. Appointed to the DHS Faith-Based Advisory Council in 2022, named FBI InfraGard Deputy National Sector Chief in 2021, and serving on the San Diego County District Attorney's Advisory, he has earned his seat in rooms where national security policy is shaped and organizational futures are decided.
His advisory relationships span the full spectrum: Fortune 500 executives navigating enterprise risk, government officials building preparedness programs, and faith leaders protecting their congregations from targeted violence. In each engagement, he brings the same asset - judgment forged over four decades of real operational experience, not theoretical frameworks.
The speaker
A platform built on what he's lived
Curtis speaks to what he has personally led, decided, and survived. As Senior Facilitator and Evaluator for the DSCA Exercise Series supporting Los Angeles Fleet Week, as a keynote voice on faith community security at national conferences, and as an executive workshop facilitator for C-suite teams across multiple industries - his platform is grounded in operational reality.
He brings credibility no slide deck can manufacture: the perspective of someone who has served as a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal, commanded a 900-member national security network, and briefed DHS on national preparedness strategy. Audiences don't just leave informed - they leave ready to act.
KEYNOTE & TRAINING TOPICS
1. The PROM™ Method: Building Governance-Grade Resilience How the Protection, Resilience, Operations, Mastery framework moves organizations from reactive security spending to a continuous governance cycle - built for boards, C-suites, and executive leadership teams who need to understand security as a governance function, not just an operational cost center.
2. From Reactive to Resilient: Critical Infrastructure Protection in Practice A field-level look at what DHS Critical Infrastructure Protection and NIMS/ICS frameworks require in practice - drawn from direct program-building experience in the energy sector - for utility, energy, and infrastructure operators navigating regulatory and physical security expectations.
3. AI and the Changing Face of Threat Intelligence How artificial intelligence is reshaping both attacker tradecraft and defensive security operations - covering dual-use AI risk, SOC applications, and what security and IT leaders need to understand about this shift right now, framed for executive and board-level audiences rather than technical security staff.
4. Public-Private Partnership as a Force Multiplier Lessons from National InfraGard leadership on how private-sector security programs and federal law enforcement can - and should - work together, for government agency audiences and corporate security leaders alike.
5. Leading Through the Incident: Executive Crisis Governance What executive leadership needs to do - and not do - in the first hours and days of a security incident, drawing on federal law enforcement incident response experience translated into corporate crisis governance.
6. Building a Security Program from Zero A practical session on standing up a complete access control, video security, and governance program from the ground up - for organizations that have outgrown ad hoc security and need a real program, not just more equipment.
7. Lessons from the Front Lines: What Mass Violence Response Teaches Us Drawing on direct experience as a DHS Delegation Team member in the response to the Sutherland Springs mass church shooting and as a member of FEMA’s Response to Community Active Shooter Team, this session translates hard-earned response lessons into practical, proactive guidance for congregations and organizations - handled with the gravity the subject deserves, focused on protection and resilience rather than dwelling on tragedy.
FORMATS AVAILABLE
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Keynote (45–60 minutes)
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Half-day executive workshop
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Full-day training intensive
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Panel participation
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Board/leadership briefing (private, non-public session)
PAST ENGAGEMENTS & CREDENTIALS
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Panelist, “Exploring Threat Intelligence and the Promise of AI” - ALIGN Phoenix: The Tenth Annual Converged Risk Management Forum, August 13, 2026
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Vice Chair, DHS Faith-Based Security Advisory Council Countering and Responding to Targeted Violence and Terrorism Subcommittee (2024)
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Subcommittee Member, DHS Faith-Based Security Advisory Council - Building Trust and Partnerships Subcommittee (2023)
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DHS Delegation Team Member - response to the Sutherland Springs mass church shooting
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FEMA Response to Community Active Shooter Team Member
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Presenter, LA County Emergency Operations Center - “Protecting Places of Worship”
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Presenter, Chino Police Department - Faith-Based Protection
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Presenter to 500 Hispanic Pastors, Los Angeles - Protecting Places of Worship
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Creator of the Religious Facilities Protection Program (RFPP), FBI InfraGard National - now run nationally under InfraGard
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Former President & CEO, FBI InfraGard San Diego (900+ member network)
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Executive Board Member, Faith-Based Information Sharing & Analysis Organization (FB-ISAO)
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Former Deputy National Sector Chief, FBI InfraGard - Commercial Facilities
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Credited with training over 4,000 law enforcement personnel and faith-based laymen nationwide
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