Hello – and welcome!

I help Senior Leaders navigate the intersection of human behavior, organizational risk, and the second half of a life well-lived.

I have a PhD, Business Management and Engineering, with Honors (Behavioral) — with post-doctoral study in I-O Psychology, a licensed Professional Engineer, a counselor, a speaker, and a writer. I have spent thirty years at the intersection of how people think, how organizations fail, and what it takes to build something that lasts. I work with senior leaders on security risk, organizational resilience, and the kind of strategic clarity that doesn’t come from a consulting firm’s slide deck.

I publish two newsletters: Risk Optics Weekly — intelligence and analysis for leaders accountable for security — and Backroads & Highways, a personal dispatch from the middle of the second half of life. Both are free. Both are honest. Neither has a paywall

I am an Overseer and Strategist, I help people deal with change.

Harmony through organization, care, and connection.

Ingenuity is the key to creative innovation.

Excellence in all endeavors – set the standard, don’t follow it.

Courage in empathy fosters deep connections.

I am an independent global analyst, behavioral scientist, engineering generalist, researcher, writer, speaker, teacher. A modern business strategist and visionary with a focus on the long-term, my research has examined threat assessment methodology and the economic life of unrecognized Bedouin communities in the Negev. Counselor at ‘The House of Acts‘ in Vallejo, and Principal at SpecTHINK, LLC. Publisher of Risk Optics Weekly and Backroads & Highways on Substack. Speaker at GSX 2026.

Please take a look around while you’re here and feel free to leave your thoughts. Thank you for visiting! 

📬 Risk Optics Weekly — free, every Tuesday → frazergthompson.substack.com    📬

📬 Backroads & Highways — free, every other Sunday → fgthompson.substack.com📬