Rejoin Coaching

Rejoin is a holding company for my digital brands and businesses that I started while designing my way out of my corporate job. We own a few small online businesses: Careercloud.com, Quotebook Journal and my Rejoin Coaching business.

CEO Rejoin

Edgewood College

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship

I help advise the School of Business on learning and curriculum. I am particularly interested in how we support students to be resilient, adaptable and self staring individuals.

Looking to build Higher Edpreneurship.

Advisory Board Member

I help high achievers break corporate dependence and build beautiful Portfolio Careers for freedom, family and finances.

I help high achieving professionals BREAK corporate dependence and build Self-Directed Lives.
I believe that to transform our circumstances, we have to BREAK what's not working, on purpose. And do it smartly.

My Career Design Lab is where your golden handcuffs and unfulfilling career go to die, and where we reimagine work aligned with who you want to be, who you want to serve and what legacy you want to leave.

Like you:
I know what it's like to be burned out, unfulfilled and secretly DYING for new opportunities. 
I know what it's like to seek my identity and self worth from a job only to realize the mirage.
I know what it's like to sacrifice my health and family for "achievement."

The difference is I did something about it.

In 2018, work wasn't working for me, so I broke it and methodically designed a new life with intention.
I used my job as an investor in my future. I figured out my advantages and then built a side business that I took to full time corporate exit, then scaled to over $1m in revenue.

I built an entire process to help me figure out my re-invented career and now I use that to help other corporate pros smartly build futures that are Self-Directed, intentional and successful - that is my purpose.

Previous, my career spanned:

Financial Futures and Derivatives Trading
3 Startups
Freelance Consulting
Corporate Innovation

I infuse major lessons from these unique experiences to help you craft a dynamic, portfolio career that is adaptable, intentional, purpose driven and never dependent on the whims of corporate structures.

Michael Gardon

JWA Information Security Management LLC

Providing contract and consulting services to various industries.  This includes projects, roles and initiatives related to:
▪	Security Program Policy and Governance
▪	Team Leadership and Development
▪	Security Risk Management
▪	Security Compliance Management
▪	Process Improvement
▪	Security Issue and Exception Management
▪	Awareness and Training
▪	Security Project Management

President

Trexin Consulting

Executive Cybersecurity Advisor

Incovate Solutions

Zacharakis Loumbas Law LLC

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Internally positioned PwC Senior Manager focused on Information Security Policies, Standards, Procedures and Controls.  Ensuring continued alignment with regulatory, risk and threat landscape.  As the Global Leader for Security Exception Management, managed a team of security specialists to ensure proper onboarding and oversight of security issues, policy deviations, risks, and risk acceptances throughout the lifecycle for over 100 territories and member firms worldwide.

Senior Manager, Security Policy and Exception Management

Working with various clients across multiple industries to solve complex information security problems related to todays dynamic threat environment.  Assisting key clients with risk and compliance related issues and strategies.  Specific areas of focus include policy and standard development, control framework alignment, GRC tool implementations, risk identification process creation and compliance program office strategies.

Manager, Advisory Services, Cyber-Security and Privacy

Discover Financial Services

Lead information security program and associated strategies by providing overall governance, risk, compliance and associated oversight enterprise-wide. Challenge and partner with business, technology and key functional areas to ensure an appropriate level of information security controls are in place to effectively manage information risk according the established risk tolerance. Drive and support ongoing enhancement of all aspects of information security program to ensure ongoing response to changing risks and regulatory environments. Key areas of program enhancement including, policies and standards, incident management and response, global information security awareness, program framework, vendor risk management and enterprise risk assessment and management programs. Partner with all levels of leadership in corporate security (i.e. fraud prevention, physical security) and business technology (i.e. security architecture, operations) to ensure identification of areas for enhancement and continued alignment with threat landscape.

Senior Manager, Information Security

Follett Corporation

Partnered with other senior leaders to manage risk and information security at a 
company with $2.7 billion in annual income and complex business units (800+ retail stores, wholesale operations, distribution, and software development) that serve clients on all levels of the education market.  Design and establish an enterprise-wide IT governance model that is aligned with policies, key regulations, and best practices (COBIT, COSO, ISO, PCI, SOX, ITIL) that impact all aspects of the business in light of current regulatory standards (U.S. and Canada).  Identify areas of risk, define metrics, and advise senior leaders on short/long term strategies to protect information and manage risk.  Ensure reporting for compliance (PCI, SOX) is complete and accurate to all stakeholders: C-level management, steering committee, and outside auditors.  Advise business units on automation and integration of risk/compliance processes to improve audit management while enhancing overall operational efficiency.  Lead training and awareness campaigns on information security policies for IT management and associates across all business units.

VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Baxter Healthcare

Obtained approval and established the first global information security governance model for a world leader in a heavily regulated industry.  Partnered with senior leaders and division manager to address privacy and security compliance issues (HIPPA, EU Data Protection Directive) and related IT security issues.  Reported to the CIO, serving as a SME to leaders throughout a global organization in identifying areas of risk.  Developed processes for incident response, and managed investigations that included the facilitation of communications and forensics processes.  Documented decisions and outcomes to enhance policy and improve processes.

Director, Information Security

Abbott Laboratories

Senior Project Manager

After 30+ years as a cybersecurity professional across various roles and industries, I'm on a mission to equip overwhelmed cybersecurity leaders and their teams to reduce risk without additional spend.

I've lived the frustration. 
- Resource overload
- Plummeting morale
- Risk gaps amid limited budgets

My calling is arming cyber leaders with a framework to:
- Streamline processes
- Optimize existing resources

Through comprehensive analysis, provide:
- Data-driven visibility into your people, processes and technologies
- Identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities

With targeted assessments and tailored action plans, we can:
- Transform chaos into confidence
- Maximize current investments to drive performance despite constraints

If you and your team are stressed trying to do more with less, let's connect. My decades of experience can help illuminate new pathways by reimagining how you lead people and approach processes. 

- Turn frustration into streamlined success
- Reduce complexity and risk without extra spend
- Conquer overload, uncertainty and low morale
- Cut complexity, strengthen security, reignite purpose

Let's transform overwhelmed teams together and turn frustration into optimized processes, empowered teams, and quantifiable risk reduction.

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