Recognizing Top 40 Industry Influencers & Thought Leaders
Celebrate
Join us in congratulating the Top 40 Thought Leaders in Security & Life Safety for 2025, and their ongoing commitment to share their strategic perspectives within our industry!
The recognized contenders represent the entire industry, including life safety, physical security, cybersecurity, risk management, loss prevention, and intelligence. Honorees comprise practitioners, service and technology providers, researchers, academics, and other professionals from over a dozen countries.
2025 candidate scores were determined using a proprietary algorithm that considered various factors, including conference presentations, webinar and podcast appearances, LinkedIn reach, academic courses taught, and volunteer leadership positions held, among others, from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2025.
Download our press announcement, or read our blog.
Want to showcase your 2026 achievements?
Pre-register now to be evaluated for our 2026 list (accomplishments during May 1, 2025 - April 30, 2026) by completing the form below. Updated criteria and additional details will be available later in 2025.
*Please note that if you do not respond or provide any profile information, LSA may conduct research based on our criteria using publicly available information. It will be up to the discretion of LSA whether you will remain in contention. We may not compile your information if preliminary research indicates that it is unlikely you will score among the top candidates.