A former Staff Operations Officer at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and a Special Agent at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office specializing in Chinese counterintelligence operations, Tracy Walder’s story is both fascinating and eye-opening. In this podcast, she will share details of her experience from the attacks of September 11th working in the CIA Vault through the invasion of Iraq, while also illuminating her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated field both abroad and at home. For example, how does a female debrief and earn the trust of al-Qaeda’s top men―Jihadists who swore they’d never speak to a woman, particularly an American woman. This podcast is the audio from Walder&apos;s presentation and Q&A at the 2021 LPM Spring Fling virtual event.

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Tracy Walder - The Unexpected Spy | Ep. 48

In another episode of our 2Cents on 2Things series, Kevin McMenimen sits down with Rhett Asher, vice president of strategy for ThinkLP and president of the International Supply Chain Protection Organization (ISCPO). Asher discusses how he was able to remain constantly involved with his children and family despite his professional career and how that translated into mentoring those who work around him to ensure they maintain and promote their own work-life balance. His second topic focused on the importance of building and maintaining an ethical professional reputation in an industry that is built around honesty and integrity.As with all LPM 2Cents on 2Things podcasts, our guest promotes his favorite charity. In this case, Asher explains how he was impacted at an early age by his mother&apos;s suicide. That experience not only helps explain his family-first approach discussed here but also why he wants to promote ways to help individuals either considering suicide or have been victimized by another person&apos;s suicide. Donations can be made online at SuicidePreventionLifeLine.org/donate or by phone at 212-614-6315. Anyone struggling with suicidal thoughts should please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.Last but not least, Asher talks about his 15 minutes of fame on a national TV series and where he would like to wake up tomorrow if he had a choice.

Work-Life Balance and Building Integrity with ThinkLP's Rhett Asher | Ep. 58

In this first edition of LPM&apos;s What&apos;s Cooking podcast series, we hear from Nathan Smith, senior vice president of product strategy for Appriss Retail, about how they are using data mining and artificial intelligence to help retailers cope with the significant increase in omni-channel business due to the pandemic to minimize the increasing costs of online fulfillment as well as fraud, while improving the customer experience. This podcast is sponsored by Appriss Retail.

Bridging the Gap between Brick-and-Mortar and e-Commerce | Ep. 57

In the video management software world, companies face problems like tech debt and staying up to date with the latest technology for their systems. Tech debt reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing a limited solution now instead of using an approach that may provide a better runway for growth and adoption. Concurrently, many retailers live in a world where they continually replace DVR technology with DVR technology because it is the path of least resistance with IT, operations, or the user base. In this podcast, Padma Duvvuri from Dragonfruit AI and Grant Cowan with Salient will explore how retailers can have a single interface for video today to pull everything together and then layer on business intelligence with the cameras already in place to start understanding tomorrow’s evolving shopper. By starting with the proper foundation and framework with Salient and Dragonfruit AI, retailers can set their companies up for future success in this rapidly changing world without having to disrupt today’s critical loss prevention and asset protection digital investigations.

Solving Today's LP Challenges and Understanding Tomorrow's Shopper | Ep. 56

In this podcast, a panel of loss prevention professionals share the importance of understanding each other’s business, sharing problems, and providing solutions. The loss prevention industry is built on trust and integrity, which is why it’s so important everyone collaborates in the game to win. Here are some of the topics discussed:What’s the difference between a vendor and a solution provider?How can you build your personal and professional network?Can you turn a “blame culture” in your company into a problem-solving culture?The panelists include Jim Mires, Vice President Loss Prevention and Safety, Sally Beauty Holdings, Kevin Darnell, Business Development Manager, Retail for Hanwha Techwin America, and Jordan Rivchun, Leader, Retail and Banking Solutions and Strategy for Hanwha Techwin America. The three have extensive experience as loss prevention executives for a wide range of retailers. The podcast is sponsored by Hanwha Techwin America.

Retailer-Solution Provider Collaboration to Move the Industry Forward | Ep. 55

Contending with an increase in rioting, smash-and-grab theft, and natural disasters, retailers have been forced to employ a strategy of board up, pull down, repeat. And the catastrophic costs from damages and downtime are detrimental. It’s time to break the costly cycle. One solution is to never board up again with cutting-edge solutions that harden your glass doors and windows without changing the aesthetic or visibility of your glass storefronts.In this webinar podcast, you will hear James Beale, a leading expert in glazing security solutions, discuss how to:Harden your stores’ glass doors and windows with without losing the aesthetic look of glassPrevent damage from smash-and-grab, riots, blasts, seismic activity, windstorms, and graffitiEliminate the cost and headache of traditional methods such as plywood or rolldown gatesPlus, a national retailer will talk about how NGS’ glazing security products are performing in their stores. This podcast is sponsored by NGS.

Never Board Up Again with Innovative Glass Hardening Solutions | Ep. 54

Countless loss prevention teams are feeling the pinch of “do more with less” initiatives from corporate. The one-two punch of increasing expectations despite budget cuts presents a monumental challenge. Worse, report-based analytics solutions, while billed as improving productivity, only tie up precious resources as investigators sift through page after page of raw data, trying to find new cases.LP veteran, Scott Pethuyne, LPC, of Zebra Technologies has seen his fair share of “do more with less” mandates during his tenure as an LP professional. Ultimately what helped his budget-strapped team truly accelerate productivity and drive next-level results was a new analytics solution called prescriptive analytics. Prescriptive analytics analyzed data and informed his team in real time:What was happeningWhy it happenedHow much it was costing the retailerWhat to do about itWho should do itIn this podcast, Scott Pethuyne and Molly Pollard discuss how this new, streamlined workflow can help LP teams prioritize their work, ramp up their case-resolution rate, return more money to retailers’ bottom line, and ultimately exceed corporate’s expectations – without increasing headcount.

Pressured to “Do More with Less?" Add Prescriptive Analytics | Ep. 53

“So What Do You Do?” is a special series from LPM Podcasts that is essentially like a virtual version of the conversation one would have at a trade show when they walk up to a new vendor and ask them to explain what they do. In this first edition, join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen and special co-host Rhett Asher, president of the International Supply Chain Protection Organization (ISCPO), as they learn about LifeRaft and how the company provides actionable intelligence to protect people and assets. A mix of a bit of business and some fun, the So What Do You Do? podcast is more than shop talk. The hosts take a look at the personality behind the brand and get to know the people who make the company function. In this discussion with LifeRaft, you&apos;ll meet their CSO (Chief Sniffing Officer) and discover the correlation between LifeRaft and lobster. Its not what you might think. Sit back and enjoy this entertaining first edition of So What Do You Do? and learn more!

The Team at LifeRaft Answers the Question: So What Do You Do? | Ep. 52

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on our personal and work lives over the past year. Now that there are vaccines available, there are many questions and concerns that we are all faced with. In this presentation from the LPM Spring Fling virtual event in March, 2021, experts with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) provided the most current vaccine information available as well as addressed some of the more common questions and concerns regarding the pandemic response.This podcast features Adrienne Eastlake, MS, REHS/RS, MT (ASCP), lieutenant commander with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and Deborah Hornback, MS, health communications specialist in the Division of Science Integration at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Answers from the Experts on the COVID-19 Vaccines | Ep. 51

Kevin Metcalf, founder of the National Child Protection Task Force, discusses the relationship between human trafficking, child exploitation, and organized retail crime at the LPM Spring Fling virtual event on March 23, 2021. The task force was founded to provide detectives, analysts, and officers access to investigative expertise and resources that are unavailable or under-funded in most law enforcement organizations. The members of the task force volunteer their time to any agency—small or large, international or local—on important, time-sensitive cases focused on human trafficking, child exploitation, and missing persons cases. 

Organized Retail Crime and Human Trafficking | Ep. 50

In this episode of And This Is Why podcast series, Senior Manager of Loss Prevention Jackie Cato with Cracker Barrel explains why she decided to enroll in North Michigan University&apos;s (NMU) online loss prevention management degree program. Dan Freeborn, assistant director for marketing and enrollment with NMU, joins the conversation to describe the program and provide information for interested LP professionals on how to apply and enroll in the program. This podcast is sponsored by Northern Michigan University.

And This Is Why Jackie Cato Chose Northern Michigan's Online LP Degree Program | Ep. 49

In the LPM podcast, Maurizio Scrofani, director of global supply chain asset protection safety for The Home Depot,  discusses how his company adapted new ways to receive and process freight while keeping everyone safe in this new Covid-19 environment. Supply chain expert Chuck Forsaith describes changes transportation companies have made to ensure timely movement of goods from ports to DCs to stores during the pandemic. And, Rhett Asher, president of the International Supply Chain Protection Organization, outlines the goals of the organization, their views on current events, and how you loss prevention and supply chain practitioners can link with them to stay connected in this fast-moving environment.

New Ways to Manage Supply Chain in Today's COVID Environment I Ep. 47

Traditional approaches to managing retail loss have largely focused upon dealing with the issue of shrinkage, a periodic measure dating back over 140 years, that typically captures the difference between expected and actual stock values. Shrinkage calculations offer little, if any, insights into the root causes of loss. As the complexity of retailing continues to accelerate, the capacity to assimilate data and the range of risks retail now faces have increased considerably. Relying upon this single measure of loss to guide strategy is increasingly anachronistic. The Total Retail Loss concept offers a much more progressive and inclusive approach to understanding how retail risks impact profitability. This podcast features Professor Adrian Beck who developed the concept along with Pamela Velose of Belk, Seth Hughes from REI,  Rob LaCommare of Big Lots, and Bill Inzeo, formerly of Walgreens and now with Zebra Analytics.The panelists make the case for why adopting this concept will enable retailers to develop a strategic approach to not only recognizing the true cost of retail loss, but also how to return value to the bottom line. However, this path includes many challenges through the change needed in retail.

Developing a Total Retail Loss Approach I Ep. 46

Join LPM’s Kevin McMenimen as he chats with Tom Arigi, director of asset protection for Kroger. In this episode, Arigi gives his 2Cents on 2Things starting with what are some of the characteristics of a true vendor partner and how strong listening skills and trust are at the center of great retailer-vendor relations. For his second topic, Arigi gets personal as he shares his favorite hobby and some of the life lessons learned from his parents. As with all our 2Cents on 2Things podcasts, our guest promotes his favorite charity Freestore Foodbank and their mission to eliminate hunger in Cincinnati by partnering with the community to provide nutritious food, connections to support services, and offering a pathway from crisis to stability.  Last, but not the least, Arigi talks about what he really wanted to do for a living and how he might achieve his dream when he retires from retail. This series is sponsored by Prime Communications whose Prime Secured solutions provide retailers with a safe and secured environment for employees, visitors, and physical assets. 

Vendor Relations and Life Lessons with Kroger’s Tom Arigi | Ep. 45

In this episode of And This Is Why podcast series, Lead ORC Manager Alaina Kring with Ulta Beauty explains why they chose Detective Analytics&apos; deep-learning loss prevention platform to use as a tool across their enterprise to support their investigations and training in the fight against organized retail crime in their stores.

And This Is Why Ulta Beauty Partnered with Detective Analytics to Fight ORC | Ep. 44

The Loss Prevention Magazine podcast keeps loss prevention professionals, security staff, and retail management up-to-date on important information and best practices for your business and career. Each episode features insights from retail loss protection, asset protection, law enforcement and more.