Most of this work starts the same way. Somebody has a situation they cannot describe yet, and a meeting on Thursday where they will be asked to describe it.
Four ways in.
Advisory retainer
A standing arrangement for organizations carrying converged risk — physical, digital, human — with nobody whose actual job is to watch the seams between them.
A monthly session with your security or HR leadership. Review of the concerning-behavior cases currently open and the escalation decisions attached to them. Availability by phone when something is moving faster than your process was built for. One written risk note each quarter, in the same register as Risk Optics Weekly.
Three-month minimum, scoped on the first call.
Fixed-fee audit
Mind, Myth, Machine run against one site, one program, or one incident.
Three to four weeks. Written findings, three prioritized interventions, and one executive briefing where I say the uncomfortable part out loud so that nobody on your staff has to be the one who said it.
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed end date. The price does not change if the findings turn out to be awkward.
Training and workshop days
On-site work with security, HR and management teams. Threat assessment team formation. Workplace violence prevention planning. Behavioral threat assessment for people who will have to use it under pressure rather than recite it during an audit.
Full day or half day, on site. Annual refresher available, because the obligation recurs whether or not last year’s session went well.
Expert witness and consulting
Negligent security. Premises liability. Workplace violence. The adequacy of a threat assessment program, examined after the thing it was supposed to prevent has already happened.
Four hundred dollars an hour for review and consultation. Six hundred an hour for deposition and testimony. A twenty-five hundred dollar retainer, billed against fees, payable before work begins. Curriculum vitae — licenses, education, publications and testimony history.
Send me the file. I will tell you within a week whether I can help, and I will tell you plainly if I cannot.
Where to start
Write to frazer@specthink.com and tell me what is actually going on. One paragraph is enough, and it does not need to be tidy. I read every message myself.
If you would rather understand how I think before you spend an hour on the phone, the framework and the current work are at specthink.com.
All engagements are contracted and invoiced through SpecTHINK, LLC.
Frazer G. Thompson, PhD, PE. PhD in Business Management and Engineering, with Honors (Behavioral), and post-doctoral study in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Registered Professional Engineer — California 33356, Texas 117589, Idaho 14121. Counselor, and thirty years in operations environments that do not forgive delay. Author of Edge of Calm. Sessions in 2026 at GSX in Atlanta, IAAPA Expo Europe in London, and IAAPA Expo in Orlando.