Security Gives Back: Bayne Consulting & Search Pays Industry Generosity Forward

Two years after she lost everything in the Marshall Fire, Rebecca Bayne continues her community service with Bayne Consulting & Search.
Published: July 17, 2024

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Rebecca Bayne knows all too well about the kindness of those within the security industry, including many of whom she’s never met and who don’t know her at all She saw a GoFundMe effort raise almost $25,000 after she lost her home in the Marshall Fire early in 2022.

“This industry reached out to me in a way that I never anticipated would happen,” she says. “I always felt like it was a great industry, but it was really demonstrated to me, and I was on that receiving end not only from the industry, but from the community in general.

“For me, that was a partially a big turning point. We might all be in a situation where we need that kind of help, whether it’s our company or our personal lives or something that’s going on with our families,” says Bayne.

Bayne, the president of Bayne Consulting & Search, has spent many years volunteering for local Denver-area charities, including Meals on Wheels, but she decided to get her business and her co-workers involved when the Security Industry Association announced it was launching Community Service Day.

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Bayne is a member of SIA’s Women in Security Forum Scholarship Committee and Human Resources Working Group and she knew the SIA-backed push to build on Convergint’s Social Responsibility Day and make it an industry-wide initiative was one she couldn’t miss, even as a three-person operation.

“When I saw this proposed, I thought it was genius,” says Bayne. “I just said, ‘We’re doing it, even if I’m going by myself.’”

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Bayne was joined on Community Service Day (June 7 this year and the first Friday of June going forward) by research and recruiting associate Heidi Martin and senior search consultant Ronna Tuteur  at Clothes to Kids, a Denver area non-profit organization that provides new or like-new clothing to underprivileged children and their families.

Tuteur has volunteer there for a couple of years and introduced her co-workers to the organization.

The Bayne Consulting team worked in the back of the building, sorting through the donated clothes and bringing things onto the store floor, where they saw some of the children who came in to pick out their new wardrobes.

“The kids really get to feel like they’re out shopping and choosing their own things rather than just getting donated hand-me-downs,” says Bayne.

“This is something that I have seen as a super-important part of what companies can do, and it doesn’t matter if you’re three people or if you’re 30,000 people,” she says. “Obviously, it puts a great word out about the security industry. It’s our industry’s national holiday now — or international holiday.”

In addition to helping those in need, having a community service slant can help those in the security with recruiting and retention, says Bayne.

“Candidates of all ages are more aware of the importance of culture now than ever,” she says. “We are always working to try to bring new talent into this industry because, man, we need it, and this is the selling point that the 20-somethings and the 30-somethings really want.

“They’re also asking me, ‘What is the culture? Is there anything that we do to give back?’ They want that to be part of their work life, so I think it’s super-critical and I think it’s a retention tool. I think it makes people feel like they’re doing something more,” says Bayne.

“The security industry in and of itself is a higher calling anyway,” she says. “We’re protecting people and property every day. Now we’re just putting icing on the cake and going a step further.”

One lesson Bayne wants to pass on to companies across the security industry that are interested in getting involved in the 2025 Security Industry Community Service Day next June or start a service-based initiative before then is to ensure you go through the proper channels to coordinate your philanthropy.

“Each one of these organizations is a well-oiled machine, typically, and you have to respect what processes and just be able to do it their way,” says Bayne. “Reach out to the person who manages the volunteer efforts and follow their rules, and it’ll be very rewarding.”

If you participated in Security Industry Community Service Day this year or are involved in other service-based initiatives, please contact SSI digital editor Craig MacCormack at [email protected] to be part of our ongoing Security Gives Back series.

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