Norris Beren is the founder of Risk Reward Consulting Inc. and the developer of Case Dismissed℠: The Shipper/Broker/Carrier Defense Protocol℠. He has spent more than 45 years advising over a thousand CEOs across trucking, freight brokerage, logistics, and manufacturing, with deep specialization in transportation risk management and the legal and regulatory environment governing broker-carrier relationships.

He has served as Risk Management Consultant to the Intermodal Association of North America since 1996, and maintained a 27-year advisory relationship with the Transportation Intermediaries Association.

Norris anticipated the direction the Supreme Court would take in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II and developed the Protocol before the ruling came down. Organizations implementing it now are building a defense record, not catching up to one that should have existed already.
He is a published author, including Why Do Smart People Fail?, and the developer of proprietary frameworks including the Assumption Gap℠, the Forensic Vetting Framework℠, the Lawsuit Dismissal Framework℠, and the Evidence Over Opinion℠ Framework℠ for decision-making under uncertainty.

The tripartite model at the center of this practice places Norris Beren between two professionals every organization calls only after a lawsuit is filed: the insurance broker and the defense attorney. Insurance covers the verdict. The attorney defends the lawsuit. The Protocol builds what makes both of those conversations stronger before either one is needed.

Norris Beren has appeared on FreightWaves Today with Craig Fuller, discussing the governance implications of the Montgomery ruling. [PLACEHOLDER, add segment link once available. Write this as a standing media credential, not a forward-looking date, so it does not need to be rewritten after June 23.]

He is available for individual engagements, group training programs, board and executive briefings, collaboration arrangements with insurance brokers, attorneys, and associations, conference presentations, and media and podcast appearances.