"Security Cultures for a Great Workplace and Business Success"

The Next Evolution of the Corporate Security Profession

About Our Speaker: 

John Rodriguez is the founder of Empathic Security Cultures, LLC, based in Austin, TX
John brings 41+ years of pure corporate security experience working for major corporations including General 
Motors, Kimberly-Clark, Levi Strauss & Co., and Cardinal Health. He previously was the Chief Security Officer 
for Temple-Inland in Austin, TX. He also owned a consulting firm for 10 years with over 100 Fortune 500®
clients from 1995-2004. John’s career started in 1982 as a third shift proprietary security officer with General 
Motors progressing to positions of higher responsibility up to CSO. He has also worked in Latin America and 
the Caribbean for 33 years. 
While with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, security director for Latin American Operations, the company was 
ranked #1 of 1,900 companies from 2009-2011 by the Great Place to Work Institute® John’s 
innovative security strategies were recognized by senior leadership as critical contributions to those 
years of #1 rankings. Business sales ranked 1st or 2nd place in every country of operation.
John is a security generalist with a passion for security culture development, coaching, and mental health for a 
psychologically safe workplace and mitigating hostile environment risks. He also developed the Security 
Culture Professional’s Attributes Model™ (SCPA Model) for the human connection and security culture 
journey.
He holds a Master’s of Liberal Arts, Texas Christian University and a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice, North 
Texas State University. He also completed the Chief Security Officer Executive Development Program, The 
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 
He has lectured for the largest security association - ASIS International (member), the U.S. State Dept. 
Overseas Advisory Council (OSAC) (member), the International Security Management Association (ISMA)
(former member), Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP), (member), as well as other groups. 
John is a Certified Family Support Group Facilitator with NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Health, and 
gives back to the community by leading support group discussions as well as training at law enforcement 
academies as part of their Crisis Intervention Team curriculum in the Greater Austin, TX area. 
John recently earned his facilitator certificate from the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, and as a 
student of psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience, earned a Certification in the Foundations of 
NeuroLeadership program with the NeuroLeadership Institute.