Please join us on Friday April 03, 2026 for Super Cyber Friday.
Our topic of discussion will be “Hacking Trust in Leadership: An hour of critical thinking about how to build productive relationships within your security team.”
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Joining David Spark, producer of CISO Series for this discussion will be:
- Jack Leidecker, CISO, Gong
- Doug Mayer, vp, CISO, WCG
In preparation for our discussion, think about the following:
- What’s the real difference between a security leader who is respected and one who is actually trusted? And does your team know which one you are?
- How do you build trust with practitioners who’ve watched leadership make promises that evaporated after the next reorg?
- When you inherit a team with broken trust, do you start by fixing processes or fixing relationships? And does getting that order wrong doom both?
- Is radical transparency in security leadership actually possible, or does the job require you to hold back information in ways that quietly corrode trust?
- How do you earn trust from a team that’s been burned by a leader who was all vision and no follow-through?
- What’s the difference between psychological safety and just being nice? And how do you build the former without accidentally creating the latter?
- How do you respond when a senior analyst is wrong about something important?
- How do you create a culture where practitioners challenge leadership decisions without it feeling like insubordination?
- If trust is built in small moments and destroyed in big ones, which leadership behaviors are quietly doing the most damage on your team right now?
It all starts at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. At the end of the hour [2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific] we’ll switch gears to our meetup where everyone will get a chance to chat face to face.
ALSO…
- We play games during the show, and some players can win prizes! Players in the US can receive prizes as gifts; those outside the US can win gift cards.
Super Cyber Fridays are open discussions where all viewers and listeners are welcome to become participants. Before the scheduled event, connect your webcam and microphone (avoid Bluetooth). During the discussion, if you have a question or comment, let it be known in the chat room and our producer will do his best to get as many of you into the conversation. We look forward to you joining us.