Q&A Interview with:
Alyssa Wilson
Senior Vice President of Marketing, Protos Security
Alyssa Wilson joined Protos Security in 2020 and currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Marketing. With over 12 years of experience, she brings extensive knowledge in multichannel marketing. Alyssa is a data-driven marketing leader with a proven history in organizational digital transformation.
In a recent Q&A interview with Security Sales & Integration, Alyssa reveals the best advice she’s ever heard, gives pointers to young security industry pros and outlines what makes a mentor for her.
That stuck with me because in cross-functional environments, it’s easy to wait for direction or assume someone else is going to own the outcome. But real progress happens when you take responsibility for connecting the dots across teams, priorities and perspectives, even when no one has formally handed you that role.
For me, that’s meant creating clarity when there isn’t any, building trust before you need it and translating work into the language different leaders and teams need to move forward together. It’s not about control and it’s not about trying to own every outcome. It’s about influence. It’s about leading upward, downward and outward.
That lesson first took shape earlier in my career when I worked in a product-based business. When you’re launching a physical product, alignment becomes very tangible. Every detail matters and every function must move in sync.
Since then, I’ve carried that idea with me and pushed it further. It’s become one of the most important ways I think about leadership.
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