New Release · March 2025
A Woman's Guide to Close Protection and Working in High-Risk Environments
"The first tactical guide built by a female executive protection leader — for women breaking barriers in close protection and high-threat security."
Available March 27, 2025 · Amazon
About the Book
For decades, the close protection industry has been built on a single template. The Discreet Professional shatters it. Written from the frontlines of executive protection and high-threat security, this is the definitive tactical resource crafted specifically for women navigating — and excelling in — environments that were built without them in mind.
From threat assessment to principal dynamics, from wardrobe intelligence to high-stakes crisis response, every chapter was forged through real-world experience and hard-won expertise. Whether you are entering the field, advancing within it, or leading your own team, this guide will become your most trusted professional companion.
What's Inside
Comprehensive coverage of threat assessment, advance work, protective formations, and site security — built on proven frameworks and adapted for the realities women face in the field.
Honest, unflinching guidance on navigating a male-dominated industry: how to command authority, build credibility, handle bias under pressure, and lead with confidence at every level.
Not theory — lived practice. Monica Duperon Rodriguez draws from years of executive protection leadership to deliver a guide that is as strategically precise as it is deeply personal.
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Introduction · The Field Was Never Off-Limits
The radio crackled. A two-car motorcade, a principal whose itinerary changed every forty minutes, and a team of six — none of whom had worked with a female lead before. I had trained for this moment for years, and yet the room still went quiet when I walked in. Not because I was unprepared. Because they had never imagined me there.
That silence is what this book is for. Not to fill it with noise — but to show you how to walk through it, do the work, and redefine what a protection professional looks like.
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