STEVEN SIEGEL Schedule a Conversation

40+ Years. Every Role.
One Focus: Results.

No hype. No hand-waving.
Just the experience to know what works and the discipline to execute it.

Four decades across operations, engineering, and sales leadership means I don't just understand security - I understand the business of security. I've carried the bag, built the teams, and closed the deals. When I engage, I bring hard won knowledge that shortens cycles, sharpens strategy, and drives measurable growth.

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AT A GLANCE
SECURITY INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE
history 40+ years across the security industry
map Multi-State Sales · IL · IN · MI · OH · WI · NY · NJ · TX and More
business_center P&L Mgmt./Ops. Oversight · IL · IN · WI
verified 25-year ASIS member
FOOTPRINT
check_circle 2026 ASIS North Shore Program Chair
check_circle 2026 CAI IL Business Partner Council Committee
check_circle Chicagoland Apartment Association Member
check_circle Apartment & Building Owners Management Association Member
check_circle International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety Member
NEXT 11 JUNE '26
ASIS NORTH SHORE CHAPTER

AXIS Communications

Chicago, IL · 5:00 PM

Host: AXIS Communications
ASIS North Shore evening program.

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40+
Years In Security
$40M
In Leads · Past 24 Months
#1
Of 125 — Wells Fargo Sales
32×
Top Profit Performer · USSA
A POINT OF VIEW

From every seat at the table.

Forty years across the security industry. Frontline operations. Branch leadership. Multi-state P&L. Boardroom service. The view from every chair at the table.

Most companies do not have a security problem. They have a discipline problem. Programs are built and then are not re-evaluated and reinforced on a regular basis. Procedures that exist on paper must not only be put into practice, but reviewed and trained on regularly. Good people work around bad systems, but they want good programs and procedures.

Security is a system. Sound technology. Disciplined protocols. Solutions tailored to each customer. Each step is important and there for a reason. Each piece is integral.

The job is complete when modern tools meet teams that know what to do at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday.

Real risk does not show up in the threat assessment. It shows up in the gap between policy, the field and the front office, the contractor and the customer.

Where execution slips, exposure follows.

That is where risk actually lives.

METHOD

How I Operate.

arrow_forward Clear operational structure.
arrow_forward Consistent execution across teams.
arrow_forward Plain communication. Inside the company. With the customer.
arrow_forward Modern technology. Disciplined protocols. Tailored to each customer.
arrow_forward Decisions grounded in real-world conditions, not theory.

When something does not work, I say so. That is not contrarianism. It is responsibility.

The best decisions in this industry are made by the people willing to look past consensus and ask whether the standard practice is still the right one.

A FEW CORE BELIEFS

R2A2. Recognize, relate, assimilate, and apply from all relevant experiences and changes to the industry.

If you are not moving forward, you are falling behind.

My knowledge allows me to debate both sides of most discussions.

There is never an excuse for no or poor communication.

A real expert continues to learn it all, after they have learned it all.

Seven days of no prospecting makes one weak.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I'd rather turn you down than let you down.

I can tell you anything you want to hear. However, I'd rather tell you the truth. Sorry.

I approach security as a responsibility.

CONVENINGS

Where I'll Be Next.

Speaking, chairing, and convening. The next gathering on the calendar.

UPCOMING
14
May '26
11:30 AM – 2:00 PM
ASIS NORTH SHORE CHAPTER · 2026 PROGRAM CHAIR

May Chapter Luncheon

Join us at the Evanston Corner Bistro, inside the historic Hilton Orrington Hotel at 703 Church Street, Evanston, IL 60201.

FEATURED SPEAKER
Stefanie Drysdale
Chief Strategy Officer, Prescient
SESSION TOPIC
"When Their Digital Life Becomes Your Physical Problem: The Convergence of Cyber and Executive Protection"
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UPCOMING
11
June '26
ASIS NORTH SHORE CHAPTER

AXIS Communications

Chicago, IL · 5:00 PM

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UPCOMING
14-16
Sept. '26
ASIS INTERNATIONAL

GSX Conference

Atlanta, GA

UPCOMING
Oct.
2026
ASIS NORTH SHORE CHAPTER MEETING

4th Annual Tri-Chapter Event

ASIS North Shore →
UPCOMING
Nov.
2026
ASIS NORTH SHORE CHAPTER MEETING

6th Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner

ASIS North Shore →

For more about the North Shore Chapter, visit ASISNorthShore.com.

RECOGNITION

A career, on the record.

Awards and roles earned in the field, across four decades and the industry's most respected organizations.

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ASIS North Shore Program Chair

ASIS ILLINOIS NORTH SHORE

Leading the chapter's 2026 program calendar after two terms as Chapter Chairperson (2024–2025).

2024 military_tech

ADSAI Chairman of the Board

ASSOC. DETECTIVE & SECURITY AGENCIES OF IL

Elected Chairman after serving as President, Vice-President, and Treasurer across multiple terms since 1998.

BOARD local_hospital

IAHSS Foundation Board

HEALTHCARE SECURITY & SAFETY

Foundation Board Member, Region V Representative, former Chicago Chapter President. Helped re-start the Chicago Chapter in 2018.

25 YR verified

25-Year ASIS Member

ASIS INTERNATIONAL

A quarter-century with the world's largest membership organization for security management professionals.

#1 OF 125 trending_up

Top Sales Performer

WELLS FARGO GUARD SERVICES

Ranked #1 of 125 sales consultants nationally; nine President's Awards across the tenure.

32× paid

Top Profit, Double-Digit Performer

U.S. SECURITY ASSOCIATES

Recognized 32 times across two decades for double-digit profit growth, alongside the 900-Pound Gorilla and Winners Circle awards.

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Client Service Excellence

U.S. SECURITY ASSOCIATES

Honored 13 times for top client retention. The accounts you keep are worth more than the ones you chase.

2026 groups

CAI IL Business Partner Council

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS INSTITUTE

Council member shaping standards and partnerships across Illinois community associations.

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GOVERNANCE & INDUSTRY SERVICE

Service to the profession.

The work that does not show up in revenue. Chairs, board seats, and committees across the security industry's standard-setting bodies — sustained over decades.

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ASIS International

25-YEAR MEMBER
  • · Illinois North Shore — 2026 Program Chair
  • · Illinois North Shore — Chapter Chairperson, 2024–2025
  • · Chicago Chapter — Past Golf Chairperson
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ADSAI

SINCE 1998

ASSOC. DETECTIVE & SECURITY AGENCIES OF ILLINOIS

  • · Chairman of the Board, 2024
  • · Past President, Vice-President, Treasurer
  • · Multiple terms across two decades
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IAHSS

FOUNDATION BOARD

INTL. ASSOC. FOR HEALTHCARE SECURITY & SAFETY

  • · Foundation Board Member
  • · Region V Representative
  • · Past Chicago Chapter President · Re-started chapter, 2018
  • · Past Regional Manager — IL, IN, KY, MI, OH
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Industry Bodies

PAST OFFICER
  • Illinois Security Professionals — Past President, Treasurer, Secretary, Vice Chairperson.
  • Midwest Security Conference — Past Program President, Chairperson, Treasurer.
  • CAI · CAA · ABOMA · BOMA · IREM — Member.
IN THEIR WORDS

What colleagues say.

A handful of recommendations from people I've worked with across the industry. The full list lives on LinkedIn.

"
Regardless of the role, he always delivered exemplary customer service to the internal and external client. He was a key contributor to the growth of the Midwest region — driving organic sales and maintaining a strong rapport with his client base. Steve understood the macro and micro benefits of supporting all clients well.
Ray Healy
EXECUTIVE LEADER · BOARD MEMBER · CRO/COO/CEO · PE ADVISOR
"
Steve is driven by client needs to deliver outstanding services in the best, most efficient and economical manner. He is consistent, methodological, and highly effective. He is part of a group that positively impacts the security and protection practice.
Adolfo Benages, MBA, CPP, CAS
LIFE MEMBER · ASIS INTERNATIONAL · LIFETIME CERTIFIED
"
Steve had an excellent knowledge of the industry and I could consistently depend upon him for his expertise. He was always focused on the customer and meeting or exceeding their needs. Hard-working, dedicated, committed to achieving excellence in every role he served. I would highly recommend Steve to any company looking for a straight shooter that achieves results.
Brian T. Dooling
STRATEGIC SALES, MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT LEADER
"
Steven and I have been colleagues for more than 15 years. He was my Chicago area branch and district contact for many national clients. I knew that I could count on him without fail. He would inspire his team to give outstanding service, always. He possesses an exceptional amount of knowledge in the security industry that only comes with true experience.
Hilary Threatt
FORMER NATIONAL ACCOUNTS · 15-YEAR COLLEAGUE
"
Steven is a force to be reckoned with. He's dynamic, collaborative, and one of the hardest-working gentlemen I know — proven in his sales numbers. He really cares about his customers and is always honest with them. He'd be a wonderful addition in any leadership opportunity.
Justin M. Speller
TRUSTED ADVISOR · SERVANT LEADER · BOARD MEMBER
"
Steve has consistently provided superior customer service and a quality product through employees that proudly represent his organization. The consummate professional who always operates with the utmost integrity. He has — and always will be — an asset to the Loss Prevention and Security industry.
James Gogol
REGIONAL LOSS PREVENTION MANAGER · BARNES & NOBLE
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SPEAKING & PUBLICATIONS

On the record, on the stage.

A selected record of writing, panels, and seminars across the security industry.

PUBLICATIONS

How to Hire Security Guards

FACILITIESNET · NOVEMBER 2022 · STEVE SIEGEL AND SEAN A. AHRENS, CPP

Contributing to the Security of Your Environment

CAI WISCONSIN · SUMMER 2015

Security in Your Community

CAI WISCONSIN · SUMMER 2015

Featured commentary, ongoing

LINKEDIN · INDUSTRY ESSAYS & POSTS
SPEAKING & CHAIRING

ASIS Illinois North Shore

PROGRAM CHAIR · 2026

Midwest Security Conference

PAST PROGRAM PRESIDENT & CHAIRPERSON

CAI Industry Seminar

SPEAKER · JULY 2015

Wells Fargo Guard Services

TRAINING SEMINARS & "SALES BLITZ" LEAD
LATEST ARTICLE

The biggest gap in executive security isn’t technology.

Why physical security, cybersecurity, and executive protection teams must share a unified threat intelligence picture to protect today’s executives from converged cyber-physical threats.

EXECUTIVE SECURITY · OSINT · PROTECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
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Illustration of disconnected executive protection, cyber, and physical security teams during a converged threat
PERSPECTIVE

Most businesses are not lacking effort.
They are lacking discipline.

01 · THE PROBLEM

The market is loud. Promises outpace delivery. Decision-makers are surrounded by capable tools, sharp dashboards, and competing pitches — and left to integrate it all themselves.

Underneath the noise, the same gaps keep showing up. Sound technology deployed without the protocols around it. Strong teams asked to execute without the playbooks they need. Relationships that erode because nobody is paying attention.

There is no shortage of options. There is a shortage of clarity.

02 · WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS
Discipline. Show up the same way every time. Build the system once, then maintain it like it is the only thing that matters — because it is.
Clarity. Plain language with clients, plain language with teams, plain language with leadership. Confusion is a leading indicator of failure.
Consistency. The program that works on a Tuesday in May has to work on a Sunday in December. Anything less is not a program.
Trust. Earned by saying what you will do, then doing it. Lost by saying what people want to hear.
Execution. Strategy is the easy part. Doing the work — every shift, every account, every quarter — is what separates the firms that grow from the firms that talk about growing.
03 · FROM THE FIELD

Forty years in the field changes how you see this. I have worked through every economic cycle, every technology shift, every industry consolidation since the early 1980s. The threats change. The fundamentals do not.

Healthcare campuses. Special events. Corporate accounts. Multi-state branch operations. Different rooms, same lessons. The organizations that hold up are the ones that stay close to the customer and refuse to take the basics for granted.

04 · ON STANDING OUT

There is a time to stand out and a time to stay in line. The art is knowing which is which.

Bill Veeck understood this. So did the operators I have respected most across this industry. They did not chase attention. They moved deliberately. When they did something different, it was because the situation required it, not because the news cycle did.

05 · IN CLOSING

I do not chase attention.
I build systems and relationships that hold up over time.

EXPERTISE

Where experience
becomes advantage.

Every level of security operations. The disciplines below are where those years compound — the kind of work where pattern recognition matters more than process. Equally relevant from an executive seat, an advisory engagement, or a board chair.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
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Operational Alignment

Closing the gap between strategy and the floor. The point where most programs lose efficacy.

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Sales & Growth Leadership

Pipeline architecture, territory design, and accountable revenue growth across multi-state security operations.

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Security Program Evaluation

Honest assessment of what is working, what is theater, and what needs to change.

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Leadership & Team Structure

The right people in the right roles, with clear authority and accountable outcomes. Branch teams, regional teams, executive teams.

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Client Experience & Retention

The accounts you have are worth more than the ones you are chasing. Building service operations that hold the relationship together over time — recognized 13 times for top client retention at U.S. Security Associates.

CONNECT

Conversations welcome.

For board, advisory, and select executive conversations - start on LinkedIn, download my Board Bio or send me an email.

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