Counsel organizedaround the situationsthat actually bringclients to the firm.
Five practice areas, fourteen advisory services, one principal. Every engagement begins not with a service code but with the situation a client is trying to resolve. The matter defines the method — not the other way around.
The Advisory is the firm's counsel work. It is independent, written for the audience that will act on it, and signed by the advisor who reached the conclusion.
A security advisor and a security service provider do not do the same work. A service provider sells implementation — guards, monitoring, transportation, technology integration. An advisor produces counsel: a written assessment, a prioritized set of recommendations, a private briefing for the leadership who will act on it. The two roles are commonly confused, often by the firms most invested in confusing them. Deetz Consulting operates strictly as the former — without selling the implementation, which is precisely what allows the counsel to remain independent.
Within that frame, the Advisory is organized around the situations that actually bring clients to the firm. Not by service code. Not by the firm's internal taxonomy. By the question the client is trying to answer when they pick up the phone — whether that question concerns a board's fiduciary obligation, an internal misconduct matter, a principal's exposure, a litigated security case, or a moment of acute risk.
Each of the five practice areas below begins with the situation. Counsel and services follow.
What the Advisory produces.
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A written report leadership can act on.
Findings, prioritized recommendations, realistic resourcing implications, and any matters requiring further inquiry — written for the audience that will read it.
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A private briefing outside the document.
Counsel meets the client where the conversation actually happens — in the room, on a secure call — to walk through findings and answer the questions the report cannot anticipate.
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An advisor who remains available.
Engagements do not end at delivery. Clarifying conversations, escalation calls, and follow-on questions are part of the engagement until the matter is resolved.
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Documentation that holds up.
Where the matter may surface in litigation, regulatory review, or board deliberation, the firm's work product is structured from the first page to survive that scrutiny.
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Discretion by design.
No public references. No client list. No testimonial use of the engagement. Confidentiality is the operating condition, not a service tier.
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A path forward the client can own.
The objective is not advisory dependence. It is leadership equipped to make the decision in front of them — and the ones that come after.
The five practice areas of the firm.
- — PRACTICE AREA 01.
The Board Advisory
For governance & counsel
The Board Advisory is the firm's most senior engagement category — independent counsel to corporate boards, audit committees, and the general counsel who advise them. The work is conducted at arm's length from the CSO, CISO, and operating management, and reported in language and structure appropriate for fiduciary review.
Mr. Deetz brings a particular qualification to this work: he is the only advisor in the National Capital Region who has held senior leadership inside both federal protection (Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility) and corporate enterprise security (Senior Director, Trellix & Skyhigh Security, a multibillion-dollar PE-backed cyber firm). The lens applied to a board engagement is the lens of someone who has run the function being reviewed.
— COUNSEL WITHIN THIS PRACTICE AREA - — PRACTICE AREA 02.
The Insider Practice
For privileged counsel
The Insider Practice is the firm's work with in-house and outside counsel on internal misconduct, insider threat, and workplace-violence matters — from initial indicator through investigation, containment, and after-action review. Engagements are typically privileged through counsel from the first conversation and structured to protect both the analytical integrity of the finding and its downstream usability in litigation, regulatory response, or board reporting.
Mr. Deetz's career in the Office of Professional Responsibility at the United States Secret Service — where he led one of the largest internal-affairs functions in federal law enforcement — informs every engagement in this category. He has personally conducted or supervised more than a thousand internal inquiries at the senior-agent level; the methodology travels cleanly into the corporate and institutional setting.
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The Principal Practice
For executives & families
The Principal Practice is the firm's personal-security engagement category — confidential security advisory for individuals whose public profile, financial exposure, or geopolitical visibility warrants structured counsel. Engagements are conducted privately with the principal and any party they choose to designate, and remain entirely outside the scope of the operational team's day-to-day work.
The principal-side qualification is drawn: Mr. Deetz served on the Presidential Protective Division and Dignitary Protection Division at the U.S. Secret Service, at the agency he supervised a team of thirty specialists in Charge of a Special Agent operating a countersurveillance program is his primary point-of-contact for high-profile foreign and domestic clients. The work draws particularly on advance discipline — the process that identifies exposure before the event assurance the parties have already exercised.
— COUNSEL WITHIN THIS PRACTICE AREA- Individual Physical Security AssessmentsConfidential personal review
- Executive Protection Program AuditsIndependent review of existing programs
- Residential Security AssessmentsPrimary, secondary, and secure travel residences
- Travel Security & Advance BriefingsCountry- and event-specific
- Vendor & Third-Party Due DiligenceEngagement-terms review
- — PRACTICE AREA 04.
The Litigation Practice
For counsel & insurers
The Litigation Practice is the firm's engagement category for retention as an independent security expert witness and litigation-support advisor in matters of premises liability, negligent security, executive-protection malpractice, insider-threat-related litigation. Engagements are typically structured through outside counsel or insurer defense counsel, subject to attorney-client and work-product protections.
The objective here is unusual: Mr. Deetz served as a federal Special Agent in Charge — the combined skillset of a federal-agency case-generation lens on the workplace investigation. Content will hold three decades of specialized prosecutorial investigation, and impossible security assurance; the expert posture is thoughtful in outdoors on the stand. Engagements are accepted at both plaintiff and defense sides, subject to strict conflicts check.
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The Crisis Practice
For acute event risk
The Crisis Practice is the firm's engagement category for acute matters at a single event, senior transitions, sensitive on-site activity, or high-profile activity where risk exposure has moved outside the containment posture of the standard program. Engagements range from a single event to a multi-quarter posture change centered around a period of elevated visibility.
The operational record here is specific: As Vice President for Security, Design, and Compliance at Colorado Security Agency, Mr. Deetz designed, recruited, deployed, and managed the twelve- to fifteen-person protective footprint plan for the U.S. President's political-rallies during the 2020 campaign cycle — a plan that resulted in the complete elimination of aggressive assault-style physical activity during high-tension moments of hundreds of operational engagements at the President of the United States. Few advisors carry that operational pedigree as a single element around a specific security problem.
The questions buyers ask first.
- Q.01
When should a company actually engage an independent security advisor?
Most often: when an internal investigation requires a posture that exceeds in-house capability; when the board or audit committee requires an independent assessment of the security function; when a principal's exposure has shifted and the existing protection program has not been re-examined; when litigation has surfaced security questions requiring federal-grade expert opinion; or when a single high-profile event requires interdiction discipline beyond the venue's normal security.
If the firm cannot help with the matter at hand, that conclusion is reached during the inquiry call — without charge and without obligation to proceed.
- Q.02
What is the difference between a security consultant and a security advisor?
The terms are often used interchangeably, but in practice they describe different work. A security consultant typically sells implementation and staffing — programs, guards, technology integration. A security advisor produces counsel without selling the implementation, which is precisely what allows the advice to remain independent.
Deetz Consulting operates strictly as the latter. The firm does not staff details, sell technology, or maintain referral fees with implementation vendors.
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How does the Advisory differ from buying a security service?
An advisory engagement produces counsel — a written report, briefing, and prioritized recommendations the client uses to make their own decisions. A security service produces operational coverage — guards, monitoring, transportation, technology. Advisory sits upstream of the service-buying decision and is conducted at arm's length from the vendors who provide it.
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What are the most common reasons companies engage this firm?
Five triggers account for most engagements: an internal misconduct or insider threat matter requiring senior-grade discipline; a board, audit committee, or general counsel requirement for independent program review; a change in a principal's exposure or public profile; security-related litigation requiring expert testimony; and a high-profile event or sustained period of elevated threat requiring crisis-grade planning. Each of these maps to one of the firm's five practice areas above. An inquiry call clarifies which is the right fit for the matter at hand.
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Where does the Advisory operate geographically?
The firm is based in Centreville, Virginia and operates principally across the National Capital Region — Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland. Engagements extend nationally and internationally where the matter warrants, drawing on Mr. Deetz's three decades of federal and corporate experience across both operating domains.
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What is the relationship between The Advisory and the firm's individual services?
The Advisory is the firm's counsel work, organized around five practice areas that reflect the situations clients face. The firm's fourteen individual services are the specific deliverables produced within those practice areas — assessments, program reviews, expert reports, and so on. Most engagements draw on one or two services within a single practice area; some span multiple.
