Kelly McGannon

Kelly McGannon is a Senior Geopolitical Strategist and National Security Technologist with 20 years of experience in disruption analysis and how societies respond to technological and geopolitical threats. Based in Kirkland, WA, she most recently served at U.S. Army Special Projects, where her investigations reached the President and Cabinet, resulting in new military technology investments and federal legislation. 
      
During her CIA career, Kelly served as a Senior Intelligence Officer on the President's Daily Brief staff, guiding intelligence delivery through a presidential transition and earning recognition for communication excellence during international crises. She led counterproliferation investigations, managed million-dollar R&D technology portfolios, and won agency-wide awards for innovative analytic frameworks. 
      
Kelly's unique analytical approach to disruption draws from interdisciplinary education spanning human civilization—from prehistoric archaeology at Oxford and medieval pilgrimage studies at Yale Divinity School to doctoral work at Princeton on cultural transmission during the Crusades. She completed intensive certifications in Jungian theory and mythology and worked in cultural heritage protection, understanding how cultures survive and adapt to threats across millennia. 
      
An expert on disruption and human response patterns, Kelly specializes in identifying how ancient defense strategies, medieval innovation networks, and modern technological disruption patterns inform contemporary geopolitical analysis.  
      
Currently pursuing continuing education at Oxford, she is writing a memoir applying CIA analytic tradecraft to explore her family history, including her connection to three Salem witches and her maternal grandmother's experience in dealing with KKK terrorism in the Ohio River Valley.