Watchtower
Founder & Managing Director · Watchtower Global Group

Kevin Alan
O’Connor.

Former UK Special Forces team leader. One protective layer around your life: foresight-led protection and risk advisory for principals, families and organisations operating at the highest level.

The Founder

Judgement, implemented directly.

Kevin Alan O'Connor

Kevin founded Watchtower following a career across UK Special Forces and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, including service as a team leader. His background spans live counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operations, both domestically and globally. Clients get that experience implemented directly into their security ecosystem: strategic and tactical planning executed at the highest level.

“My word is my bond. We deliver what we say we are going to deliver.”
Kevin Alan O’Connor · Founder
Speaking & Events

Calm under pressure, from someone who has lived it.

Kevin speaks on leadership under pressure, foresight, and protecting lives at the highest level: ideas and judgement, never tactics. For programmes, panels and private briefings, enquire below.

Upcoming
16 Sep 2026
Inspire Beyond
Keynote · Leadership under pressure · Details and attendance on request
Announced soon
Further dates in London, Dubai and Singapore
New engagements appear here first
Talks
We see it early.

Why the best protection is the incident that never happened: foresight as a discipline, in security and in leadership.

Calm is a skill.

Decision-making under pressure, from special operations to boardrooms: how calm is trained, held and transferred.

The invisible layer.

What protecting lives at the highest level really involves, and why the art is knowing when to be seen, and when not to be.