What Is this?
CISO Impact and Influence is a system designed to provide cybersecurity leaders with structural clarity at executive altitude.
It includes:
a book
four publishing streams
executive coaching and development methodologies
All grounded in real-world patterns and practical shifts in thinking and behavior.
How It Works
(Reflect → Experiment → Apply)
CISO Impact and Influence delivers four publishing streams—each with its own rhythm and depth, aligned to how you want to engage:
Reflect: Read to shift perspective.
Experiment: Try new moves and techniques.
Apply: Use the full system and framing.
Free subscribers receive:
Dispatch — full access to most issues; occasional premium editions
Leverage (Preview) — summary versions with diagnostic starters
Research (Selective) — updates from longform studies
Paid subscribers unlock:
Ascent full access — the full transformation sequence
Leverage (Full Tools) — full guides, scaffolds, and drop-in sessions
Research deep cuts — extended analysis and findings
Full archive
The Four Streams
Dispatch — Reflect
For those who still carry technical credibility, but have shifted how they think, speak, and act—now contributing in ways that shape direction rather than just drive execution. Each issue delivers one mental shift, three clean insights, two reframing quotes, and one sharp question—built to reset posture and expand clarity in under a minute.
Leverage — Experiment
For CISOs who need tools that hold up under pressure—where clarity, timing, and traction matter. Each edition offers diagnostics, scaffolds, and implementation frames focused on influence, presence, and executive precision—often expanding on tools introduced in CISO Impact and Influence. Implementation guidance is available to coaching clients and paid subscribers through drop-in sessions. No fluff. Only what works.
Ascend — Apply
For CISOs reshaping how they think, move, and lead—through structured progression. Ascent moves through the spine of the CISO Impact System: a 15-topic architecture designed for incremental, durable change. Across an expected 75 issues, the sequence builds topic by topic—each one explored in depth before moving to the next—building clarity, momentum, and forward pressure. The ideas stand alone, but the value is cumulative.
Research — Reflect + Apply
For CISOs who want access to language, patterns, and insights that don’t make it into whitepapers. This stream draws from autoethnography, key informant interviews, indirect subject inquiry, and social network analysis—analyzed through grounded theory and other qualitative methods. Findings are anonymized and drawn from real language. Studies are published upon completion, or when doing so won’t impact longitudinal outcomes.
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About the Author
Chris Brown is the author of CISO Impact and Influence and the creator of the CISO Impact System.
He works directly with CISOs and cybersecurity executives through executive coaching, strategy discovery, and executive system design.
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Who is Chris Brown?
What’s it like to work with Chris as a coach?
Does he have a framework for coaching?
