Bryce is a bestselling author, speaker and strategic advisor, as well as the founder and president of Red Team Thinking. In 2015, he became the first civilian to graduate from the U.S. Army’s red team leader training program. He then worked with companies around the world to develop a model for business red teaming, which he shared in his 2017 book, Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything. His first book, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, has become a manual for CEOs looking to transform their corporate culture. Bryce has taught these tools and techniques to companies around the world, including Verizon, JPMorgan, Delta Air Lines, Huawei and Roche, and he regularly appears on television and radio news programs internationally. Prior to founding Red Team Thinking, Bryce spent 22 years working as a financial journalist for newspapers across the U.S. He also teaches red teaming at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Marcus is a former military red teamer who has been sharing these tools and techniques with corporations in the U.K. and around the world since retiring from the Royal Air Force in 2013. In the RAF, he served as a fighter controller and also enjoyed tours with the Royal Marines, Royal Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, with whom he went to Iraq in 2003. An airfield director, strategic and operational planner, and, finally, one of the Air Security Executives responsible for defending the U.K. during the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With extensive experience gained as a senior military officer Marcus seamlessly moved into the business world in London, initially as a senior manager at a major consultancy, then an independent contractor, then business owner and partner – leading on major business transformations predominantly in the financial sector. Along with his military skills and training, Marcus has completed post-graduate studies in Strategic Leadership and Management, as well as Business Management in the areas of performance improvement and change management.

Kevin Benson taught at the U.S. Army’s Red Team School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas from 2007 to 2017.  He served in the U.S. Army for 30 years.  His final assignment in the Army was Director, School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth Kansas, from 2003-2007.  He was the Director of Plans for Third U.S. Army and the Combined Forces Land Component Command at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, from July 2002 to July 2003.  In October 2010 he returned to Baghdad at the request of the Commanding General, US Forces-Iraq to assist in planning the successful conclusion of US operations in Iraq.  

Kevin is a 1977 graduate of the United States Military Academy.  His military education includes; the U.S. Army Armor Officer Basic Course, U.S. Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the School of Advanced Military Studies.  He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies Program as a War College Fellow in 2001.  He earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Kansas in 2010.  He was a SEN Robert J. Dole Fellow at the Dole Institute of Politics in 2011.

Kevin writes for a number of professional journals and web sites ranging from Parameters, the Journal of the U.S. Army War College and ARMY Magazine, the magazine of the Association of the U.S. Army, to Time.com, POLITICO, and War on the Rocks.  He is also regular book reviewer for ARMY magazine.

Kevin’s military awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal (Hurricanes Andrew [1992] and Katrina [2005]), and the United Nations Medal for service in Haiti [1995].

Ellie has a proven track record of complex strategic planning in fast-paced and complex environments, built during a successful career as a logistics officer in the Royal Air Force. Within her RAF career, Ellie undertook numerous operational deployments including Turkey, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kuwait, Italy in a variety of operational roles; her UK based employment included several tours as a staff officer in a number of planning, capability and strategy roles. Leaving the RAF as a wing commander, Ellie’s final tour was as a strategic plans officer where she led and directed cross functional analysis, strategy development and delivery of RAF capability to support MOD’s strategic objectives and global operations. This last tour saw Ellie lead on the planning for the recovery of all RAF assets from Afghanistan, design and development of solutions for complex cross-Defence projects across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific, Americas and Antarctica.

A short period as a management consultant working in the health and social care sector beckoned before Ellie returned to the public sector, working for the NHS in Organisational Development,  

An absolute advocate of an organisation using the experience, talent and intellectual capital it has, to deliver the change and results it wants and needs; Ellie looks to tap into that resource and get any organisation where it wants to be using its most important assets – its people. One of life’s enthusiasts, she sees fun and adventure in the opportunities life throws at you and imbues this positivity in everyone she meets.  Fascinated by what makes people tick, Ellie has a genuine interest in ensuring people bring their best self to work and apply their unique strengths in order to successfully deliver on the organisation’s task and mission.

Ellie holds MA in Strategic Defence Studies and MSc in Business Psychology.

Craig Cockburn (“coburn”) started his career as a software engineer before progressing into test management, project management and programme management. During this time he wrote the UK's first guide to getting online, is credited with inventing an early browser and appears on the credits for HTML. A early adopter of remote working, Craig wrote a research paper on this practice in the early 1990s. He was Programme manager on a delivery for Southwark council which won IT Project of the Year from the British Computer Society and worked across the UK, Scottish and Northern Irish public sectors, including close collaboration with strategic communications in Downing Street.

During the last 10 years, Craig has specialised more on helping clients with agile delivery and transformations in the public and private sectors with a particular emphasis on banking and finance. During this time Craig has completed a diploma in digital leadership with distinction, obtained multiple certifications in enterprise agile and received an acknowledgement in Agendashift by Mike Burrows. He is a Chartered Fellow of both the British Computer Society and Chartered Management Institute. 

Craig is based in Edinburgh, Scotland and has recently spoken at a number of conferences and events including Agile Tour London, Lean Agile Exchange and Coaching Agile Journeys on visualising strategy in a complex landscape and innovative learning practices.

Jayson is a U.S. Army veteran with over 25 years of experience in wildland and structural firefighting. In addition to overseeing the operations of an all-hazard fire agency operating in some of the most complex terrain in the US, he also serves as an Operations Chief on a National Type 1 Incident Management Team where his focus is strategic and operational plan development. He has spent over two years deployed on incidents.  Jayson completed post-graduate study in Leadership and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Performance Psychology where his concentration is on the role applied critical thinking plays on decision quality in complex environments.

Jacques Cosset is a French national with a unique experience in international management for more than 30 years whether as a senior export consultant or corporate leader.

 He has led successfully Medium-sized companies in the French Caribbean (Guadeloupe and Martinique) and Asia (Malaysia) in the Building and Food & Beverage sectors.

He has an extensive knowledge of the fast-moving International Food and Beverage wholesale sector. (Food Service)

 He has shown over the years great ability and expertise to lead multicultural teams.

He has also been involved in coaching sister companies in Thailand and China by helping the senior teams back to the path of profitability.

As a Manager-Shareholder, he has worked over the last 20 years under Family ownership (Vestey Group -UK), Private Equity (EQT from Sweden) and a leading German multinational company (Metro AG) listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

Jacques understands very well the challenges faced by multinational companies in an ever-changing environment and is a strong believer that as Peter Drucker said, “leaders of the future will know how to ask”

He is enthusiastic in bringing Red Team Thinking into businesses as a practice and a mindset to help management teams face successfully the VUCA world.

Jacques holds a MBA from the University of Melbourne (U21- Australia) and a joint-B.A from Middlesex University (UK) and Neoma Business School (France)

André Daus is a trained banker and studied business administration focusing on banking management, business informatics, and taxes. Subsequently, he also became a certified financial risk manager (FRM), certified financial mathematician (CQF), and certified stock exchange trader (EUREX).

André is an innovative IT pioneer and worked as a project manager with worldwide experience. He has been involved in international projects and has worked on these mandates in New York, Singapore, and Moscow.

He lives his motto "thinking must be followed by action" as consistently as the principles of entrepreneurial courage and personal responsibility. Simplifying complicated matters to gain room for maneuver in decision-making is his mission. André Daus passes on his unique expertise and wealth of experience in the context of consulting mandates and lectures and workshops.

André is a relentlessly curious guy. It drives him to touch the ground to gain a deep understanding of how things work. He has worked for several organizations, from small to international, mainly in the financial sector. André managed several projects from local to multinational. All with the same approach: people matter.

He is a sought-after know-how carrier in several professional and industry associations and a member of numerous renowned organizations that are committed to Germany and Europe's economic future. He also volunteered as a coach for start-ups with whom he shared his knowledge and accompanied them in their first steps of growth.

André stands for clear communication. Few people get to the heart of a matter in clear words, one could even say unsparingly, as he does. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in both IT and business, making him the perfect link between the two increasingly merging worlds.

When he's not dealing with business tasks, he keeps busy with his family and takes part in obstacle course races.

After a successful career as a C-level executive and management consultant with EY, Tim founded Seneca Leadership Programs, where develops leaders that can deliver exceptional results in volatile and uncertain times.

His partial client list includes Ford, IBM, Exxon Mobil, General Motors, General Electric, AT&T, Proctor and Gamble, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baylor Scott and White, and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

He is also former Academic Director and still an instructor in the Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business for Executive Education.

In addition to consulting for strategic planning he is an author and a certified barbeque judge.

He is also a Marine Corps infantry veteran.

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Lucy is a certified systems innovation facilitator who knows that the future belongs to those leaders who can listen effectively to the systems that they lead, especially in moments of crisis.  

Lucy understands firsthand what it’s like to lead through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity after 15 years working across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America with a wide variety of public and social sector organizations from the United Nations to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. 

Lucy is a sociologist and economist by training, a Third Culture Kiwi, and a lifelong learner in the arenas of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, social justice and decolonization. With radical compassion and candor, Lucy challenges herself and those she works with to get comfortable being uncomfortable, center at the margins and take radical responsibility for systems change.  

Lucy holds an MSc. in Public Health and Health Systems Management from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Bachelors degrees in Business and Arts from Massey University, New Zealand.

Ben has worked across multiple technologies, industries, and organisational sizes. From hedge funds and investment banks including BAML, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered in the finance space, to small start ups and globally distributed, cutting edge crypto currency organisations. He's also spanned multiple roles from individual contributor and systems architect to team builder, leader and advisor on tech culture and strategy.

Ben’s early career was in the Royal Marine Commandos. Although he remains deeply technical, it's been in that intersection of culture, strategy and operations that Ben has found the perfect expression of his interests and experience. His highly diverse background spanning military operations to complex technical delivery leads Ben to focus on making changes at the holistic systems level to increase an organisation’s ability to deliver at the tactical level. A sample of projects that Ben has been involved with:

Built and led a team to completely redesign and modernise a 10 year old front of office development and test pipeline resulting in the ability for quants and strats to ship code daily
Advising the leadership team at a globally distributed crypto currency R&D start up on how do implement development processes and communication improvement to maximise delivery and alignment while maintaining the necessary autonomy for independent research.

Advising a growing fintech company in the loans space on how to re-configure the engineering organisation, while also employing cutting edge serverless technology to sidestep crippling tech debt.

Building an exceptional development team around cutting edge at a startup and leading them to create a real time event based system in the events booking space.

Khuram Hussain is a serial technology entrepreneur, based between Europe and Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of 20 Miles Inc, building the next generation of CRM software for the Insurance Industry.  Hussain successfully steered his first startup, Inbox2 to a successful acquisition and 60 million global users. Later founded Fileboard Inc, backed by investors such as Silicon Valley greats such as 500 Startups Fund. He mentors startups at some of the top accelerators such as Startup Bootcamp and Rockstart. 

Before his entrepreneurial journey Hussain worked as an IT business consultant and project manager at Shell, Philips and Rabobank. He holds a B.Eng degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Manchester. 

Mark’s portfolio career brings together more than three decades of varied and in-depth experience the private, public and third (charity/voluntary) sectors in leadership roles.

Mark initially spent a decade in the private sector, working for FTSE 100 corporations in digital technologies, while also serving with the British Territorial Army, graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, serving as a Logistic Officer, and going on to complete the gruelling 23 G Squadron SAS selection process.

Mark continued to serve the community through the following decade, both internationally with a major Non Governmental Organisation and locally by founding an award-winning social enterprise to promote the mitigation of the climate emergency.

Mark’s passion remains at the intersection of technology and human development, with a
focus on data driven decision making, including as a British Cycling coach supporting athletes at national, European and world competition.

John has 25 years’ experience of sales execution with Coca-Cola Enterprises, Abbott Laboratories, Pfizer, and Zoetis

21 years on the front lines helping build customer value within the Pharmaceutical industry. John has had a professional focus in the agricultural and animal health pharmaceutical area of business.

Heavily involved in strategic account planning and account specific strategic decision making

Involved in team mentoring, talent development, talent acquisition at various organizational levels

Multiple innovation awards within his organization throughout his career and viewed as a thought leader within his team.

Certified in DiSC behavioral Profile Analysis, John has facilitated behavior profile training with the University of MN school of Veterinary Medicine and many businesses.     

With a BSc in Business Management, and training in Strategic Account Management, Lean Six Sigma, Facilitation, negotiation skills, and coaching John is a natural contrarian thinker.

John has real-world front-line experience within businesses on the need for better decision-making. The speed in the VUCA environment of business today demands it. John’s focus is on improving the decision-making process, both from the customer perspective and organizational viewpoint.

Colonel Itai Shapira, Israeli Defense Forces, Reserve 

Itai is an experienced intelligence officer with more than 26 years of experience in the Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI). He retired from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as a colonel, and still conducts reserve service in the IDF General Staff.

Itai has a rich experience in intelligence analysis and management roles on the tactical, operational, and strategic levels – and has contributed intelligence insights to formulation and execution of strategies and operations. In his last assignments Itai served as the Deputy for Analysis in the IDF’s Research and Analysis Division – where he led efforts of analytical tradecraft and methodologies; a transformation project lead in the IDI – where he drafted a conceptual framework for joint intelligence concept; and the Head of the “Red Teaming” Department in the IDI, where he conducted disruptive and critical analysis supporting national, defense and military decision-making.

Itai is a graduate of the Israeli National Defense College (INDC). He holds a B.A from Tel Aviv University in economics and philosophy, an MBA from Tel Aviv University, and is currently a PhD candidate in the University of Leicester. Itai has written academic and professional articles about intelligence, strategy and Middle Eastern affairs in Intelligence and National Security, War on the Rocks, Defense One, The National Interest, RealClear Defense, and Strategic Assessment.

Kate Stewart, PhD, MBA

Kate has served the U.S. Army Red Team School at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas since 2014 as a subject matter expert teaching negotiation, communication skills, and conflict management. She also teaches in the Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Montana State University, and assists major project leaders in the construction, defense, and healthcare industries through her firm, Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Services.   

Kate’s background includes extensive experience teaching adult civilian and military learners with diverse backgrounds and experiences. She has developed and taught business and communication classes and seminars in top-ranked national and international graduate and undergraduate programs, and to military units and Fortune 50 companies. In addition to numerous articles, Kate co-authored the book Storied Conflict Talk: Narrative Construction in Mediation. Her research examines the impact of culture and communication styles on negotiation and conflict (focused on Arab and sabra Israeli styles), narrative mediation, decision-making in VUCA environments, and community-building. 

She has held corporate leadership roles and founded several entrepreneurial ventures, including a successful entrepreneurship/regional development NPO. For over 20 years, she coached business leaders and startup founders, helped develop strategy, built early organizational dispute resolution systems and ombudsman functions, and mediated workplace disputes. In 2013, Kate embedded with ISAF forces in Afghanistan as a Human Terrain Team Senior Social Scientist and HTS Afghanistan Theater Research Director, during which time she led a nationwide research project to assess Afghan attitudes about legitimacy of the national election process. 

Kate holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida and both an MBA and an MA, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, from The University of Texas at Austin. She earned her PhD in Communication Studies, with concentrations in Organizational Communication and Language and Culture, from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also completed the Graduate Portfolio in Dispute Resolution.

Remco started his career in 1994 as a lawyer and legal counsel within the public and private sector, always dedicated to applying the highest professional and ethical standards. These legal settings and wide variety of contracts and transactions required him to constantly consider future uncertainties. Having introduced culture change within the public sector by means of privately financed infrastructure, he moved into renewable energies and witnessed how these technologies totally disrupt the existing energy landscape to this very day, while at the same time creating fascinating new opportunities. By witnessing both incumbents and new entrants in the energy arena, he experienced that it requires creative and curious people for organizations to embrace change, and leaders that create an atmosphere of trust. His key target now is to successfully allow entities to achieve their specific goals and generate value in the broadest sense for all participants. He has the ability to operate at all levels within an organization, preferring personal communications over digital means when possible.