Sean Lyons is an active pioneer within the contemporary corporate defense movement, being a firm advocate of the requirement for corporate defense to play a more eminent role in corporate strategy. His work is focused on the development of corporate defense programs, whereby corporate defense is used as an umbrella term representing all of those activities which are aimed at defending the organization from risks, threats, dangers and hazards etc. Sean’s vision is that corporate defense programs will address all of the activities which constitute an organization’s program for self-defense. Corporate defense therefore is seen to represent the management of these critical components which include governance, risk, compliance, intelligence, security, resilience, controls and assurance etc. Sean recently published a Q&A series entitled “Corporate Defense Insights: Dispatches from the Front Line”, which featured expert commentators from around the globe addressing these individual components from a corporate defense perspective.
Sean is also the architect of the related cross-functional discipline of “Corporate Defence Management (CDM)” which aims at helping organizations to ensure that these multidimensional components are managed in a coordinated and coherent manner so that they are in strategically aligned, tactically integrated, and operating in unison towards common objectives.
Sean has had a number of papers published internationally on CDM and other corporate defense related topics. His work has been published by such publishers as Corporate Governance Quarterly (CGQ), the RiskCenter, the Bank Director, the Corporate Board Member, the Journal of Operational Risk, the Business Continuity Journal, StrategicRISK, Information Management (formerly the DM Review), GTNews, and by organizations such as the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), the Risk Management Association (RMA), the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA).
Sean has lectured and spoken on these topics at seminars and conferences relating to corporate defense, CDM, ERM, GRC and business resilience, in both Europe and North America, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Portugal. He has amassed two decades of experience in the banking and financial services industry, working as an Operational Trouble-shooter, Internal Auditor and Management Consultant.
Selected publications are available for download at: http://ssrn.com/author=904765