Mike LaCorte

Mike LaCorte is the co-founder and CEO of Conflict International, a global intelligence and investigations firm headquartered in Central London with offices in the US, Spain and Cyprus. Over more than twenty-five years in the sector he has become one of its most recognised professional international investigators.

He is President of the Association of British Investigators and previously served as President of the World Association of Detectives, where he was the first to be elected Chairman for three consecutive terms.

On this episode of The BEYOND Podcast, Mike LaCorte sets out the argument in full: Professional investigation is what people reach for only when trust has already broken: an event has happened, everybody lies (clients included), and the investigator's job is to replace narrative with documented, primary-source fact, legally and proportionately. The industry itself has moved from private investigator to professional international investigation, self-regulated through the Association of British Investigators because the UK still has no licence to practise. The named concepts the conversation walks through, in his own words on the recording: people call an investigator only after an event has happened; the boundary is legality plus proportionality; the industry has moved from private investigator to professional international investigation; everybody lies, so the investigator reports documented, primary-source fact, never hearsay.

The Mike LaCorte podcast appearance on The BEYOND Podcast carries the conversation in full. Read the episode synopsis on BEYONDai, and find every episode on the The BEYOND Podcast page.