Leaders
5 leaders and 4 cases, read for documented decisions rather than for personality — with 75 numbered sources across the nine pages, and a section on every page for what is contested or thinly documented.
Everything else in this curriculum is a fictional composite, on purpose. These nine pages are the exception: real people, real decisions, each fact carrying a numbered source you can open. The point is not admiration. It is that a claim about a real career either has a source or does not belong here — and where the record is thin, contested or company-reported, the page says so before it says anything else.
Leader profile
leaderFive careers read for documented decisions rather than for reputation. Each fact carries a numbered source.
Case · technical CEO
technical-ceoNot a security leader. Studied because the information environment a technical founder builds is the environment a CIO or CISO has to work inside.
Case · cautionary
cautionaryA decision, and the structure that produced it. Analysed as a decision, never as a verdict on a person.
Case · crisis
crisisRecovery engineering under a live destructive attack, and what the recovery objectives were actually worth.
Case · contested
contestedWhere the public record is disputed or unresolved. Included precisely because the course has to say so.
Profiles state the situation and mandate, the documented decisions with sources, the reported results (labeled company-reported where they are), what is contested, what it teaches against the course frameworks, discussion questions, and the source list. No personality characterization; decisions only. Where a source is an internal research file rather than a public URL, it is named as one.