Nick Ryan is a former CISO who spent over a decade leading security at a $1.5B per year professional services firm, directing over 24 M&A activities and leading large-scale incident response efforts.

He later served as a security officer for a $4B per year organization and now teaches advanced executive-level cybersecurity at Harvard University.

But titles aside, he’s spent years in the seat you’re sitting in right now.

He’s walked into board meetings with critical security briefings and watched executives mentally check out halfway through.

He’s been brought into strategic decisions after they've already been made.

And he’s watched technically brilliant security leaders get passed over for leadership roles because they couldn’t translate their value into business language.

So he turned his focus to understanding this gap at a deeper level.

Through research with 40+ CISOs and security executives, Nick mapped the exact communication breakdowns that keep talented security leaders stuck at the technical level.

This assessment is built on that research.

It reveals where your message may be breaking down with senior leaders, and what to do about it.