Holly-Jane Grayling

A curious nerd with a fascination for humans, a love of data, and over a decade of experience in learning and behaviour change, with six of those in cyber security, focused on understanding not just what people do, but why.

By day, leads security awareness and culture for a global organisation, turning insight into practical interventions that genuinely shift behaviour. Combines behavioural science, data, and creativity to design everything from engaging content to simulations and immersive exercises. Also strengthens the systems behind the scenes, refining policies, improving processes, supporting incident response, and closing gaps wherever they appear. A regular public and corporate speaker who enjoys hosting sessions for a variety of audiences, including senior leaders, covering topics from social engineering to mitigating cognitive drift in the age of AI.

By night, manages the Cognitive Security Institute’s SHIELD community (Security and Human Insight for Educating Leaders on Defence), shaping thinking around human centric security. Passionate about learning and sharing information with others. Drawn to the edges of human understanding, exploring consciousness, UAPs and extraordinary human experiences to better understand the nature of reality and perception. Also spends a suspicious amount of time outside collecting rocks, bones and bits of nature.