John Sileo’s identity was stolen out of his business and used to commit a series of crimes, including $300,000 worth of embezzlement. While the thief operated behind the safety of John’s identity, he and his business were held legally and financially responsible for the felonies committed. Forced to defend his innocence, John spent two stressful years and $12,000 on a criminal lawyer to keep from going to jail.
During that time, John became an expert in identity theft prevention and quickly became America's top identity theft speaker. The mindsets of prevention he developed during this experience are the basis of his critically-acclaimed, award-winning Book, Stolen Lives: Identity Theft Prevention Made Simple, and are used throughout his identity theft keynote speeches, identity theft seminars and identity theft workshops. Recently, Stolen Lives was chosen as the #1 Business Book at the EVVY Awards.
As a professional member of the National Speakers Association, John speaks around the country to corporations, associations and consumers about protecting their private information, preventing identity theft and avoiding costly data breaches. His satisfied clients include Pfizer, AARP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Lincoln Financial, NJM Insurance, Principal Financial Group, Drury Inns, Prudential Real Estate, Preview Properties, Premier Bankcard and numerous corporations, financial institutions, universities and associations. John's recent media appearances include Money Matters Today, NBC, ABC and Fox.
John is the president of The Sileo Group, a 43 year-old Idea-lab focused on guiding organizations to proactively protect their privacy. The Sileo Group trains on how to quickly detect and deter data theft and financial fraud on all rungs of the corporate ladder, from the mailroom to the boardroom.
John is the founder of four successful businesses in the fields of executive education, internet software, web-auctions and consulting. Formerly a management consultant with Mercer Management Consulting, John advised Fortune 500 clients, including Bank of America, Texaco and Sprint on internal and external strategic initiatives.
During his Keynote Presentation, John will:
1) Reduce financial and legal liability your organization faces for data theft
2) Provide employee wellness that will set your HR department apart
3) Protect every individual who has a social security number or financial assets
4) Train your audience to take care of sensitive customer, employee and intellectual data
5) Entertain and inspire from a position of experience
Speeches:
1) Think Like a Spy: Bulletproofing Your Identity
Your audience will experience what it feels like to become the victim of identity theft. Until we see firsthand how destructive this crime can be (personally and professionally) identity theft is easy to ignore. And until we are trained to respect our own privacy, there is no way we will respect the sensitive data stored in our businesses. By the time your audience walks out the door, they will not only be inspired to take action personally and professionally, but they will experience, first hand:
• The #1 Obstacle to Privacy and how to overcome it
• How to Think Like a Spy: applying espionage techniques to data protection
• Bulletproofing Intellectual Property in your organization
• The Top 5 Social Engineering Triggers and how to respond to them
• Interrogation Tools to detect and avoid the latest scams before they bite
• Risk-Scenario Training that lets you experience prevention first-hand
• The 3 Failures of Privacy Leadership made by CEOs and Managers
• Targeting the Enemy: a plan of action for minimizing risk with less work
• Practical Skills to protect your wallet, trash, computer, mailbox, brain, business & more
Think Like A Spy is a stand-alone keynote or can be presented with other programs, either as a second installment or as a breakout session.
2) Safe Data is Profitable Data: Privacy Leadership from the Mailroom to the Boardroom (45-60 Minutes)
Once we understand how to protect our personal identities, then we have the tools and motivation to begin protecting valuable corporate data. Identity theft and corporate data loss are a huge financial cost and legal liability to corporations and organizations. It is imperative in our information economy that we train our work-force on how to protect those information assets, whether they are digital, physical or intellectual.
Leadership begins at the top of the organization. If your executives and board members don't take an active role in proactively promoting privacy, how can they expect their employees to care about the customer data, employee records and intellectual capital that they handle every day? believe in the privacy of your customers, clients, employees and intellectual
Your leaders will learn:
• The 3 Failures of Privacy Leadership made by CEOs and Managers
• The 5 Myths of Corporate Data Loss
• How to implement the Think Like a Spy Privacy Reflex
• How to prevent "insider theft” of your private information
• How to save hundreds of lost work hours & thousands of dollars
• How to secure sensitive customer, employee & intellectual data
This speech is only presented in conjunction with Think Like a Spy, as it gives the audience inspiration and a personal background for applying protection to the corporation. Coupled with Think Like a Spy, this is a 90 minute speech
3) Your Financial Institution as Hero: Protecting Customers against Identity Theft
No one is in a better position to educate individuals about identity theft prevention than financial institutions. Not only do they have the “financial ear” of their clients, but they have a responsibility to protect their customers and members from this highly financial crime. This speech applies to banks, credit unions, insurance companies, brokers, financial planners, accountants, etc.
Here is the good news. By educating your customers or members about how to protect themselves against America 's Fastest Growing Crime, your financial institution benefits at the bottom line. By wearing the white hat in the financial services industry, your organization will learn how to:
• Leverage identity theft education to develop more loyal customers
• Raise effective barriers to customer defection
• Lower your cost of doing business while raising customer service
• Improving share-of-wallet through prevention goodwill
• Lower the fraud-loss your institution incurs when your customer is victimized
• Take full advantage of the hero's publicity
• Implement tipping-point customer referrals
This speech is best presented in conjunction with Think Like a Spy as it gives the audience inspiration and a personal background for applying protection to the organization.