The Defuse Podcast: Where Experts Defuse Real Threats
🔊 The Defuse Podcast: Personal Threat Management for High-Risk Lives
When the threats are real, the stakes are high — so what actually works?"
Hosted by Philip Grindell — former Scotland Yard detective, behavioural threat specialist, and author of Personal Threat Management — this podcast lifts the lid on the proven methods used to keep prominent individuals, executives, and private clients safer.
Each episode features straight-talking conversations with trusted experts on:
Stalking, fixated individuals, and insider threats
Protective intelligence and behavioural profiling
Reputation management and media exposure
Doxxing, OSINT, and digital vulnerability
Crisis leadership and executive resilience under pressure
Whether you're in security, lead a family office, or are responsible for protecting people at risk, you'll get honest, practical insights into what actually works when lives and reputations are on the line.
No theory. No fluff. Just proven ways to defuse real threats.
Subscribe now and learn how to manage threats before they become crises.
The Defuse Podcast: Where Experts Defuse Real Threats
Threat Assessment and Stalking – An Expert Perspective with Gabrielle Thompson
This month's very special guest is Gabrielle Thompson, PI, CPP.
I am delighted to have Gabby as our Christmas guest. Gabby has recently announced that after a glittering 25-year career at Gavin de Becker & Associates (GDBA), she has decided to move on and seek new opportunities.
During her time with GDBA, Gabby acted as the firm's subject matter expert on threat assessment by handling high-risk and critical cases, including inappropriate pursuit, stalking, threats, and harassment, and overseeing threat assessment programs for at-risk individuals. She also led the firm's threat assessment training, influencing thousands of others' careers.
Gabby's career was in part initiated by her own experience of being a victim of stalking. In this podcast, we discuss how this has influenced her management of stalking investigations, with some great insights into how to manage the initial phases of a complaint.
We also discuss what keeps prominent people awake at night, issues of threat management, investigations, the impact of AI and technology and women in the security industry.
This is Gabby's first podcast since leaving GDBA and is not to be missed!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thompsongabrielle/
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