Randall Larsen educates, enthralls, and inspires as he talks about leadership during troubled times.

Larsen is the CEO of the WMD Center, a not-for-profit research organization he formed with Senators Bob Graham (D-FL) and Jim Talent (R-MO).  He is also the national security advisor at the Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a senior fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, and the author of Our Own Worst Enemy (Grand Central Publications, 2007).

Larsen’s former leadership positions include: vice president and corporate officer (one of only five) in a 400-person consulting firm; executive director of the Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; department chair and professor of strategy at the National War College; chief of legislative liaison at the U.S. Transportation Command; and commander of America’s VIP fleet of aircraft at Andrews Air Force Base Maryland, where he was responsible for 1,000 people, 47 airplanes and helicopters, a $150 million annual budget, and some very high-maintenance customers. He also served as a military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok and on the Defense Science Board. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the National Speakers Association.

His articles have been published in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, Business Week, and Ripon Forum. In 2007, US News & World Report, Congressional Quarterly and the Washington Times carried in-depth profiles on Larsen. He is a frequent guest commentator on radio and television including: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, BBC, NPR, Jim Lehrer News Hour, Fox News Channel, Larry King Live, Oprah and Dr. Oz.