WHO WE ARE
With over two decades of experience in the world’s leading intelligence agency and a decade across academia, corporate and public sectors, the founders of HBC bring unparalleled experience. They translate high-stakes national security insights into practical strategies for your organization, enhancing leadership, management, communication, and security. Whether refining your leadership development, balancing an AI-enhanced workforce, evaluating your risk posture, or executing influence messaging, HBC is committed to elevating your organization from “first rate” to “world class!” Trust us to empower your team to excel in today’s complex environment.
Lance Fitzmorris, HBC’s Principal, is a seasoned intelligence and security executive with over 35 years of experience in energy and national security. He specializes in managing complex projects, risk mitigation, change leadership, physical security, cybersecurity, intelligence analysis, and public speaking. Kristin Fitzmorris, the managing partner, is a communications specialist with extensive experience supporting corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. Her expertise includes strategic management of federal programs, training policy, standards validation, and curriculum development for agencies such as the CIA, DoD, FBI, DEA, ICE, ATF, and CBP. Together, we provide comprehensive security and communication solutions tailored to diverse client needs.
OUR SERVICES – HOW WE CAN HELP
BUSINESS SERVICES
Anticipating problems, providing solutions
We offer “decision advantage” through outcome-based management consultation, risk and AI-fluency assessments, leadership skills acquisition, and help with corporate rightsizing or culture shaping. We provide clarity and direction through strategic plans, implementation timelines, concepts of operations (CONOPS), and operations center support. This structured approach enables your organization to anticipate challenges, optimize profit, reduce costs, compress schedules, enhance reputation, and grow organizational footprint.
INTELLIGENCE & ANALYSIS
Illuminating the answers, not just the facts
When global events impact your financial performance, precise intelligence is essential. We identify relevant data and develop comprehensive, actionable plans to enable you to influence outcomes before events completely manifest. Our products to mitigate threat include security and risk assessments, new country or market assessments, sitreps, research, threat monitoring, and policy/doctrine creation.
MESSAGE CRAFTING
Conveying your vision
One of today’s biggest challenges is to remain relevant as technology, markets, and systems evolve at unprecedented speed. We develop comprehensive information, marketing, and influence messaging across various platforms to enhance your professional image and effectively convey your key messages. Our services include vision articulation, problem analysis, audience segmentation, message framing and design, along with qualitative, quantitative, and impact evaluations to ensure strategic communication success.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Inspiring others to follow
We offer leadership development services for front-line managers to C-suite executives from individual coaching to classroom seminars or workshops. Additionally, we can help with succession planning and management team selection. Our clients love our key-note presentations, personality assessment & 360° feedback tools, and bespoke leadership & collaboration training. Frequent topics include team building, problem solving, sales persuasion, negotiation, soft skills, and business ethics.
PRESENTATIONS
Hidden Brook provides high quality motivational and educational presentations, workshops and conference keynote speeches in leadership, ethics, collaboration, and risk management topics. We are happy to tailor our presentations to your needs.
• ETHICS
• MANAGEMENT
• TEAM BUILDING
• STRATEGY
CASE STUDIES
- AN INTERNATIONAL OIL & GAS CLIENT
- A LARGE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT
- A NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY CLIENT
- BUSINESS SERVICES FOR A LEADING LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) CLIENT
The Challenge:
A top-ten international oil and gas company decided to create an internal, all-source intelligence capability to provide leadership with greater decision advantage for operations in overseas markets. The new unit would provide information to reduce costs, optimize profit, compress new-country and new-prospect execution schedules, enhance reputation, and increase global footprint. While the concept was clearly a good idea, a challenge arose because the firm had no previous experience with the intelligence discipline, and its existing security structure focused solely on physical security measures.
The HBC Solution:
HBC supported this expansion by creating a strategic plan marketing the new unit’s capabilities to other components internally, producing a cohesive message campaign branding the new unit, and establishing three-year objectives and deliverables guiding the unit’s integration into the business and decision making apparatus enterprise-wide.
The Result:
Following delivery of the HBC-authored strategic plan, the unit has doubled in size and has more than payed for itself in dollars saved. 1.5 years into the initial three-year-plan, the unit enjoys “ahead of schedule” penetration into the company C-suite; is integral to decisions addressing new country entry, prospect evaluation, and the value assurance process; and routinely advises on development of maturing assets.
The Challenge:
Our client was a large, metropolitan police force wishing to set the tone and tempo for an innovative leadership development program to empower its officers and to foster collaboration throughout the region.
The HBC Solution:
HBC delivered the keynote speech on “Leadership in a High Reliability Organization,” focusing on the implicit sacrifice required by personnel serving in this type of occupation. Sharing best practices from the arena of federal operations, HBC addressed acculturation, retention, morale, and mission achievement topics.
The Result:
With a high impact, three-hour presentation, the members of the host organization and several invited guests had a renewed commitment to collaboration across the region. Officers commented on how the presentation resonated with them personally, and the clear impression that their leadership cared enough about them and their personal development to bring HBC in to kick off the program.
The Challenge:
A top-ranked waste management and sustainability company in the US approached HBC with a plan to create a senior leadership development program. The stated goal was to select and train high-potential upper echelon managers to enhance the firm’s position as an industry thought leader in innovation, process improvement, and customer service for decades to come.
The HBC Solution:
HBC used an inductive training approach for adult learners to tailor a series of six seminars spanning 15 months. Senior managers attend quarterly two-day sessions leveraging best practices from other industries in technological innovation, business collaboration, community partnership, and change management. Learning is designed to convey these lessons while enhancing personal leadership growth and development.
The Result:
The organization benefitted immediately from the clarification of leadership values and behaviors. Participants were able to take practical, actionable techniques back to their work units with a new framework upon which to base and evaluate their own leadership and management decisions. With a new common vocabulary which they themselves defined and accepted, they created an instant coaching and feedback community to both solve problems and share best practices.
The Challenge:
The client, a top-15 Natural Gas company wanted to catapult itself into top five in the world, but worried they didn’t have the internal structures and procedures to sustain effective business practices during that kind of expansion. They wanted to install the scaffolding and personnel to support and sustain rapid, exponential growth.
The HBC Solution:
HBC spent time with senior leaders, stakeholders, and industry partners to understand the strengths and vulnerabilities of the business’ organization, staffing, and allocation of duties. Following this exhaustive evaluation of the existing structure and capacity, HBC developed a comprehensive strategic plan focused on security with a suite of policies, procedures, and doctrine which helped lead to and sustain exponential growth for the company.
The Result:
The client is now among the largest cap Natural Gas producers and LNG shippers on the planet and has enshrined the strategic plan into its core functions.