From Michael Julian’s Ambitious Organization: Executive-Level Security Consultation and Private Background Checks Tie Together

The art of providing executive-level security consultation and protection services stems from the growing need for reliable defense against various threats. The threats to high-profile individuals and executives, usually CEOs, politicians, celebrities, and high net-worth individuals, come in different forms. While floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters elicit a separate type of response and protection team, physical threats such as active shooters, cyberattacks, espionage, and corporate violence require a multi-faceted protection team.

Providing reliable executive and asset protection in private and business environments requires a team of well-connected, trained, knowledgeable, technologically assisted, and seasoned experts. But how do you locate such individuals or a team of them to fulfill corporate and private security needs? In California, Michael Julian, an internationally recognized and several state-licensed investigator and business investigations expert spearheads executive-level security consultation organizations.

Julian is an author, entrepreneur, security consultant, personal and asset protection expert, and founder of MPS Security and Protection, a National Business Investigations (NBI) division established in 2003 to fulfill the increasing demand for high-profile individual security services. He founded of the internationally endorsed "A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival Training Program", now embedded as a core component of corporate training programs at companies worldwide.

He shares his expertise regarding private security issues, business and private investigations, and corporate background checking at several conference events internationally and in the United States. As a licensed investigator, Julian delivers a profound take on the intertwining relationship between corporate background checking and executive-level security consultation.

Executive-level security for high-profile individuals involves risk assessment, threat identification, contingency planning, defensive and evasive driving, close protection, and protective and counter-surveillance. This type of protection service also involves behavioral risk assessment, a highly utilized train in corporate security schemes. For example, in the case of a disgruntled employee, active executive protection teams remain alert and assess the possibility of vandalism, physical or cyberattack from the intended.

According to the security services and business investigation principles at National Business Investigations (NBI), founded in 1990 by Ron Julian (father of Michael Julian), prevention of corporate violence is part of the comprehensive corporate facility protection. This includes private investigations and background checks for employees, fresh recruits, and potential hires. A professional security team runs background checks to acquire legitimate information, ranging from credit scores and verifying references to financial frauds, local and federal tax liens, and criminal records.

Other complexities of executive-level protection involve creating contingencies, security checkpoints, travel plans, secure accommodations, and developing defensive and evasive measures in case of emergencies. Another critical aspect of ensuring the security of high-profile individuals is providing close protection through bodyguards who are trained in close combat, defensive driving, evasive driving, first aid, and responsive communication.

Michael Julian is the leading name in the security professional and private and business investigations industry. Throughout 30 years of his professional career, Julian assisted and established the MPS Security and Protection division of NBI, where he started working at the age of 16, along with pursuing remarkable academic milestones in administrative justice, security, and investigations. His name is etched in the honorary list of Phi Theta Kappa International Scholastic Order following his major in Administration of Justice in college. Now, he heads and guides over 100 certified instructors of his 2014 active shooter survival training program worldwide.