Executive Leadership Resilience Course (ELRC): Dignitary Protective Services Training

The Executive Leadership Resilience Course (ELRC) provides the advanced strategies, leadership principles, and operational tactics required to lead and manage protective missions with confidence. These capabilities are not typically addressed in law enforcement academies or U.S. military basic training. Instruction is delivered by retired U.S. Secret Service special agents with significant experience in premier protective assignments, including the Presidential Protective Division, Counter Assault Team (CAT), and Protective Intelligence Division.

Offered in three- and five-day formats, the course introduces leading practices in modern protective operations, including:

• Site security and advance planning

• Close protection and movement tactics

• Motorcade coordination and logistics

• Threat assessment and mitigation

• Command decision-making under pressure

Through practical, scenario-based instruction, participants develop a comprehensive understanding of protective operations and the ability to apply sound judgment in an evolving threat environment.

Executive Protection Program Consulting

In addition to training, Defend 13, LLC provides strategic consulting services to help organizations design, strengthen, and evaluate executive protection programs. We partner with organizational leaders and security directors to:

• Establish new executive protection units with appropriate governance, staffing, and operating procedures

• Audit and assess existing protection programs to identify operational strengths, gaps, and opportunities for improvement

• Reduce liability exposure through improvements to policy, staffing, training, and procedures

• Implement leading standards aligned with federal protective-service practices

Whether an organization is establishing its first protective detail or enhancing a mature program, Defend 13, LLC delivers practical, measurable outcomes informed by real-world, Tier 1 protective services experience.

• Attendees preferably should have limited to no
Protective Operations experience

• Class will begin at 0800 each day

• PowerPoint presentations each
morning followed by field exercises
in afternoon (FTX is the final test)

• Dress is BDU’s for Tuesday and
Wednesday; Suit for Thursday
(Simulated Protective Ops)

• Will require radios and
earpieces (clear). We can
utilize tactical back channel for
communications

• 24 Hours of TCOLE credit

• No live firearms, ammunition,
knives, chemical sprays, or tasers
during training

Course Schedule

DAY 1
Psychological disposition, threat definition, intelligence, basics of protective operations, detail assignments, tactical positioning, rope-lines, tactical egress, foot formations, cover and evacuate, drills over the days training.

DAY 2
Motorcade operations, site advance security motorcade manifests and alignment, motorcade ambush and drills over the days training.

DAY 3
( FTX) SImulated Protective Serivce Operation, AAR & Graduation