Fortify your Future with Ken Carrasco
Fortify your Future with Ken Carrasco
Podcast Description
Welcome to Fortify your Future, a podcast for leaders tasked with the oversight of safety and security at your organization. Hosted by Ken Carrasco, a 20+ year Security Executive, Trusted Risk Advisor, and Industry Speaker. Tune in to strengthen your safety and security posture, learn from seasoned professionals, and keep up with technology accelerating business resilience. Each episode delivers actionable advice on risk management, crisis response, workplace safety, or performance/career management for security professionals. Subscribe now and fortify your organization's future!
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The podcast focuses on themes such as risk management, crisis response, workplace safety, and career management for security professionals. Episodes feature topics like leadership strategies during uncertainty, the importance of culture in organizations, and effective transitions from military to corporate roles, highlighted through interviews with industry veterans.
Welcome to Fortify your Future, a podcast for leaders tasked with the oversight of safety and security at your organization. Hosted by Ken Carrasco, a 20+ year Security Executive, Trusted Risk Advisor, and Industry Speaker. Tune in to strengthen your safety and security posture, learn from seasoned professionals, and keep up with technology accelerating business resilience. Each episode delivers actionable advice on risk management, crisis response, workplace safety, or performance/career management for security professionals. Subscribe now and fortify your organization’s future!
Technical expertise can establish credibility—but it doesn’t automatically make someone an effective strategic leader.
In this episode of Fortify Your Future, Ken Carrasco speaks with Hazel Annikin (FRSA), founder of Pathfinder and an executive coach and mentor who helps technically accomplished professionals transition from operational expertise into senior leadership and develop the strategic voice to match their experience.
Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience in complex global organizations, Hazel explores what changes when leaders move from being the expert in the room to influencing people, decisions, and business outcomes.
Ken and Hazel discuss:
• Moving from functional expert to strategic business leader
• Creating teams that tell leaders the truth—even when it's uncomfortable
• Distinguishing what's genuinely urgent from what's simply loud
• Protecting the cognitive bandwidth needed to lead through a real crisis
• Why having a seat at the table doesn't guarantee influence
• Translating risk into the language executives understand
• Influencing without formal authority
• Building trust and relationship capital before you need it
• Understanding the unwritten rules of an organization
• Systems thinking, change management, and adaptability
• Developing the next generation of security and risk leaders
• The role of mentorship in leadership development
Hazel also introduces a particularly useful concept for security and risk professionals: attach your message to what already matters to executives—revenue, reputation, cost, customer experience, and growth—rather than relying solely on technical risk language.
This conversation is for Security Directors, CSOs and aspiring CSOs, risk and resilience professionals, operational leaders, and anyone making the transition from technical expertise to strategic leadership.
Follow Fortify Your Future with Ken Carrasco for conversations designed to help security leaders become business leaders.
Connect with Hazel Annikin:
Hazel Annikin on LinkedIn
Link to join the community and receive the monthly newsletter with leadership insights
https://pathfinder-rhsolutions.com/newsletter/
Link to the new group mentoring programs
https://pathfinder-rhsolutions.com/programmes/
Let's talk Supply Chain Europe
https://letstalksupplychain.com/europe
Episode 1 (Spotify)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fnDeRB8JkRihuf7YLN0Sj?si=3D44912bf5c9c049=e2&nd=3D1&dlsi=3D858c8b8437ed4209
Can also be viewed on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IC6srg6SGc
Let's talk supply Chain global/North America
https://letstalksupplychain.com/
Let's talk Supply Chain Europe LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lets-talk-supply-chain-europe/
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