During his 20 year career as an FBI Special Agent, Jeff Lanza’s main focus was rooting out corruption and fraud. Along the way, he learned what causes the white collar criminal to step over the line and ways to prevent it from happening in the first place.
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Jeff has lectured at Princeton University and as a featured speaker in the distinguished lecturer series at Missouri State University. He appears regularly on CNBC’s “Closing Bell”, the Fox News Channel, and has informed the public on other national programs including The Today Show, Good Morning America, Dateline, NPR’s Marketplace, among others. He is passionate about keeping people and organizations safe from risk and has presented to thousands around the globe. His latest book, “Pistols to Press”, has received critical acclaim from national media figures. Jeff loves talking to audiences the world over, but is most comfortable in his home city, where he serves as a certified Kansas City barbecue judge.
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Jeff chosen as the best speaker in the 50 year history of Kansas City’s prestigious Plaza Club. He is a professional speaker who has provided over one thousand presentations on the topics of leadership integrity, crisis communication, ethics, identity theft, cyber-crime and more. His clients include 20th Century Fox Entertainment, Morgan Stanley, Nationwide, Citigroup, The Young Presidents Organization, American Century, Hallmark, H & R Block, The Society of Human Resource Management, Hess Oil, Standard and Poor’s, Financial Executives International, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and others.
Jeff was head of operations security for the Kansas City FBI and a graduate of the world renowned John E. Reid School of Interviewing and Interrogation. He is a certified FBI instructor and has trained numerous government agencies and corporate clients on how to handle the media tricks that the national television personalities such as Connie Chung and Chris Hansen used on him during his nearly two decades as a crisis communicator with the FBI.
In addition to his latest book, Jeff authored speeches for FBI executives and has been published in The Kansas City Star, Ingram’s Magazine and on the FBI National Web site.
Jeff consulted for academy award winning director Ang Lee during the production of “Ride with the Devil”, and he has provided regular consulting services for television and movie production in Hollywood at Steele Films and Granfalloon Productions. Jeff was a major contributor and appeared on camera in a recent episode of The History Channel’s, “America’s Book of Secrets”. He was featured in the companion documentary to the major theatrical release “Runner Runner”, which stars Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake.
Prior to his career as an FBI agent, Jeff was employed by Xerox Corporation as a Computer Systems Analyst. He has an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven (Connecticut) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas.