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CMMC Is Organizational Change. Nancy Shows Leaders How to Own It.

Now booking keynotes, trainings, panels and podcasts for 2027.

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A Program Leader Who Has Run Bigger Projects Than Yours

Nancy talks to executives the way she runs a project: in numbered steps, in plain English and without scare tactics.

She has keynoted the CMMC Implementer's Conference, presented with Katie Arrington, the former Department of Defense official who led the creation of CMMC, and spoken at National CMMC Day in Washington, DC.

Her core message is that CMMC is organizational change. Only a third of the program is technical, so handing it to IT leaves most of the work undone. Audiences leave with a numbered plan they can start on Monday and a clear picture of what leadership has to own. Her talks draw on 30 years of regulated, high stakes projects in hospitals, county government and the defense supply chain.

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Keynotes, Trainings, Panels and Podcasts

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Main stage

Keynotes

Why cybersecurity is now a national security issue, and what that means for the small and mid sized firms that build for the Department of Defense.

Leadership teams

Trainings

Half day and full day sessions that treat CMMC as the organizational change it is. Nancy walks the executive team through scoping, policies, evidence, governance and getting people to adopt the new way of working.

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Moderated discussion

Panels

CMMC enforcement, False Claims Act exposure, supply chain risk and the questions primes now ask their subcontractors.

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Guest interviews

Podcasts

A practitioner's view of CMMC, ransomware and local government security, in plain English for owners and executives.

Topics Nancy Speaks On

  1. CMMC is organizational change: what leadership owns
  2. Your SPRS score is a signature
  3. The False Claims Act and the inflated SPRS score
  4. The 12 step CMMC implementation plan
  5. Why the person pushing the buttons can't grade the work
  6. Small suppliers are the front line of national security
  7. Ransomware and IP theft at American companies
  8. Securing local government and critical infrastructure
  9. How 1 county won $20M+ in public safety grants
  10. Leading change: 30 years of lessons in compliance
  11. Custom topics on request
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"A lot of folks think that this is an IT project, but I'm here to say that actually only a third of it is technical in nature."

Nancy Laney, CMMC Executive Strategies talk, 2024

 
Feb 2025 CIC Southwest, SMU Leadership and the 12 Step CMMC Implementation Talk Dec 2024 PNDC, Seattle CMMC panel, Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition Panel Oct 2024 Forbes 15 Reasons To Be Cautious About Using AI In Coaching Expert panel May 2024 National CMMC Day, Washington, DC Psychology of CMMC Implementation From a Risk Management Perspective Talk 2024 CMMC Implementer's Conference, San Diego Why Do I Need Compliance: Modernizing Cyber and IT Offerings to Reduce Service Providers' Risk Keynote 2023 CMMC Implementer's Conference Uncle Sam Needs YOU, with Katie Arrington Talk 2023 Oregon Cyber Resilience Summit Cyber Threats to IT and OT Talk 2022 PNDC Cybersecurity Conference, Portland Cybersecurity specialist panel Panel 2022 OAGITM Conference Penetration Testing Talk  

Seen At

Forbes Councils
University of Oregon
CMMC Implementer's Conference
SMU
CMMC Day
PNDC

Watch & Listen

Video: Leadership and CMMC in 12 steps, with Nancy Laney
Conference talk

CMMC Executive Strategies and the 12 Step Implementation

Video: Nancy Laney interviewed with an aerospace manufacturer
Interview

SpaceCom: An Aerospace Manufacturer's Road to an SPRS Score of 110

Video: Cyber AB founders reunion panel at the CMMC Implementation Conference 2023
Hosted event

The Cyber AB Founders Reunion, 2023

Media Kit

Bios

Short bio

Nancy Laney is the Founder & CEO of Peak Global, the parent of Peak Complyance, Peak ITSS and Peak Gov. She has spent more than 30 years leading IT, cybersecurity and compliance in healthcare, government and defense. She serves on the Advisory Council of the CMMC Implementation Standards Council and the Forbes Coaches Council.

Long bio

Nancy Laney is the Founder & CEO of Peak Global, a family of firms that protects America's defense suppliers, businesses and local governments from cyber threats. Peak Complyance gets defense contractors ready for CMMC and NIST 800-171. Peak ITSS provides managed IT and cybersecurity to American companies. Peak Gov secures local government. Nancy spent 27 years as Corporate IT Director for Catholic Health Initiatives, where she led IT for 4 hospitals and served as HIPAA Security Officer for 21 years. As IT Director for Douglas County, Oregon, she secured more than $20M in public safety grants, including an $18.25M DHS/FEMA award for emergency radio. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and an Advisory Council Member of the CMMC Implementation Standards Council. She has keynoted the CMMC Implementer's Conference.

Speaker introduction

Our next speaker has spent more than 30 years finishing projects other people called impossible. She converted a hospital from paper charts to electronic records, won more than $20M in public safety grants for an Oregon county, and now helps defense contractors prove they protect the data our military depends on. She sits on the Advisory Council of the CMMC Implementation Standards Council. Please welcome the Founder and CEO of Peak Global, Nancy Laney.

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Credentials: PMP · CPHIMS · ITIL Foundation · Forbes Coaches Council · CMMC Implementation Standards Council, Advisory Council
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