Corporate Defense and the Value Preservation Imperative ─ Bulletproof Your Corporate Defense Program

This book explores corporate defense, which is an organization's obligation to implement a comprehensive corporate defense program in order to deliver long-term sustainable value to their stakeholders. It considers the challenges of implementing a world class corporate defense program and looks at this concept from strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives. Finally the book looks at the business case for implementing a corporate defense program and the value proposition of introducing a truly world class approach to addressing the value preservation imperative.

Sean Lyons is globally recognized as a corporate defense thought leader and strategist. He is acknowledged as the pioneer responsible for proposing the umbrella term “Corporate Defense” to represent an organization collective program for self-defense and also for proposing the extended “Five Lines of Corporate Defense” oversight model which is currently receiving increasing levels of regulatory attention. Sean is published internationally, and has lectured and spoken as a subject matter expert at lectures, seminars, and conferences in Europe, North America, and Asia. This subject matter expertise includes topics such as corporate governance, enterprise risk management, compliance, GRC, security, business continuity, internal controls and assurance. As the architect of the cross-functional discipline of corporate defense management (CDM) he is widely regarded as the foremost authority in this emerging field. With more than 20 years' experience in corporate defense activities he is a firm advocate of the requirement for corporate defense to play a more prominent role in corporate strategy. Sean recently agreed to join the upcoming Journal of Enterprise Risk Management as a member of their Editorial Advisory Board. In 2013 he was the invited keynote speaker at the Asian Confederation of Institute of Internal Auditors (ACIIA) Chief Audit Executive Leadership Forum in Mumbai, for their two day conference entitled “Enterprise Defense Management: Internal Auditors to the Fore” (a theme which was based on his CDM framework). In 2012 Sean’s firm was listed as a winner in Acquisition International Magazine’s M&A Awards for his role in highlighting corporate defense maturity as an M&A due-diligence imperative. In 2011 he was an invited member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)'s taskforce on promoting the "ICGN Corporate Risk Oversight Guidelines". In 2010 Sean was shortlisted as a finalist in the GRC MVP 2009 Awards run by the US based GRC Group (SOX Institute) which was co-chaired by Senator Paul Sarbanes and Congressman Michael Oxley. These awards recognized individual achievements and professional contributions in governance, risk management, and compliance, and honored professionals who demonstrated excellence in this field. For a number of years Sean was also the resident contributor in the field of corporate defense for the RiskCenter, a New York financial risk management media company.