#862: Cathy Lanier, Chief Security Officer of the NFL — From 9th-Grade Dropout to DC's Longest-Serving Police Chief, Protecting the Super Bowl, and Resilience Under Extreme Pressure
Apr 23, 2026 · 1h 36m
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0:00Hello boys and girls, ladies and germs.
0:02This is Tim Ferriss.
0:03Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss Show.
0:05Greetings from Austin, Texas.
0:07My job is, as always, to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out how they do what they do.
0:13My guest today, I have wanted to have on for years.
0:16Her name is Kathy Lanier.
0:19Kathy Lanier is the chief security officer of the National Football League.
0:23You may know it as the NFL, where she oversees security across the league office in all 32 clubs.
0:28There is a lot that goes into that, not to mention the Super Bowl.
0:32Before the NFL, she served as chief of police of Washington, D.C.
0:36from 2007 to 2016.
0:38She was the first woman in the role and the longest-serving chief in the force's history.
0:43Her strategies helped cut violent crime by 21%, even as the city's population grew 15%.
0:49She's a graduate of the FBI National Academy and holds a master's in national security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School.
0:57Everything related to Kathy Lanier is a study in resilience and endurance and applying technology and systems level thinking to everything.
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