Executive Protection Advance Work: How to Explain and Justify Your Timing

In this episode of What Would You Do?, Christian West and Joe LaSorsa break down how executive protection professionals should calculate, justify, and communicate advance timelines with clarity and confidence. Clients, PAs, and security managers often ask: Why does one advance take longer than another? How many days are actually needed? How do experience, locations, and logistics affect timing? Christian and Joe walk through a practical framework for: Calculating advance time per location Using standardized advance procedures and checklists Explaining advance work in a way clients understand Adjusting timelines based on venue type, transit, and agent experience Using a three-hour per location baseline as a planning reference This episode is built around real-world executive protection operations, not theory. 👍 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL If you found this episode useful: Like the video Subscribe for weekly executive protection discussions Comment below with a scenario or question you want us to cover next Your feedback helps shape future episodes. 🎥 ABOUT THE SERIES What Would You Do? is a professional discussion series where experienced executive protection practitioners examine real scenarios from the field and explain how they would handle them. #ExecutiveProtection #CloseProtection #AdvanceWork #SecurityPlanning #ExecutiveSecurity #EPTraining #ProtectionOperations #SecurityProfessionals #CloseProtectionLife #WhatWouldYouDo