Aug 28, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
Forhad speaks with Aric Mutchnick, Founder & CEO of Experior Group and creator of the DHS SAFETY Act-certified Red Ball Drills program, about building an effective security training program. Aric…
Because you brought up, you know, training our kids and hoping that they go out in the world and do.
And in the security industry, it's very frequently forgotten that we're trying to build good habits as opposed to an information dump.
However, if you really want effective training, you have to be thinking, how do we build the culture of security and positive habits around security? So to me, that is the mark at the high level of how you build a successful training program, whether it's training your command center staff, your guards, your, you know, Joe employee on different habits.
You have to be able to think forward and play the long game of I'm trying to build good habits.
And yes, you have bus stops of, yeah, you just got to learn this, right? Like there's here it is.
i i i you know what um you know how when you hear something it seems simple after you hear it right or you learn about it um i i think that's a as like brilliantly put because it's concise and really straight to the point of um i think i agree with you i i think that's uh really well said um so How's the threat environment changed the skills employees and leaders need most today? What do you think? I mean, a lot has been going on.
I talked about the last couple of years, but what are your thoughts on that?
To me, it's still the same battle that I saw 20 years ago, which is awareness.
If you start with an escalated level of awareness so that people can react a little bit more effectively, everything else kind of falls into place.
Because you brought up, you know, training our kids and hoping that they go out in the world and do.
And in the security industry, it's very frequently forgotten that we're trying to build good habits as opposed to an information dump.
However, if you really want effective training, you have to be thinking, how do we build the culture of security and positive habits around security? So to me, that is the mark at the high level of how you build a successful training program, whether it's training your command center staff, your guards, your, you know, Joe employee on different habits.
You have to be able to think forward and play the long game of I'm trying to build good habits.
And yes, you have bus stops of, yeah, you just got to learn this, right? Like there's here it is.
i i i you know what um you know how when you hear something it seems simple after you hear it right or you learn about it um i i think that's a as like brilliantly put because it's concise and really straight to the point of um i think i agree with you i i think that's uh really well said um so How's the threat environment changed the skills employees and leaders need most today? What do you think? I mean, a lot has been going on.
I talked about the last couple of years, but what are your thoughts on that?
To me, it's still the same battle that I saw 20 years ago, which is awareness.
If you start with an escalated level of awareness so that people can react a little bit more effectively, everything else kind of falls into place.
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