Book 101 Review, in its sixth season, features Christopher McKeithen Founder, combat veteran, leadership strategist, and transformational thinker — as a special guest. Drawing from his military experience, business leadership, and deep understanding of organizational culture, Christopher shares powerful insights on how companies, leaders, and teams can identify the blind spots that often limit growth, communication, innovation, and long-term success. This compelling conversation explores leadership under pressure, accountability, resilience, decision-making, and the importance of self-awareness in building stronger organizations and more effective leadership cultures.
About this episode
Christopher McKeithen discusses leadership and cybersecurity insights drawn from his military experience.
Christopher Mckeithen Founder and Combat Veteran Teaching Companies to See Their Own Blind Spots. Spent 7 years serving in the U.S. Army, including a combat deployment to Iraq. When I came home, I brought with me the same discipline, mission focus, and zero-tolerance for blind spots that kept people alive downrange and after years of figuring things out and reintegrating back to civilian life I chose to apply it to cybersecurity. What I found when I entered the security world surprised me. Most small and mid-sized businesses are completely exposed and have no idea. Not because they don't care but because nobody has ever shown them what their external attack surface actually looks like. They think they have a vulnerability problem. They actually have a visibility problem. They have come accustomed to being reactive instead of proactive. That gap is why I built Aegis Cyber Defense. I founded the company in 2026 as a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, and I built the platform from scratch while attending cybersecurity school full time and raising a newborn at home. Aegis gives IT Directors and Security Managers at companies with no dedicated security team the same…
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