I told our listeners before we started recording that this particular guest could go three or four hours, and I meant it. Geoff Lee is one of the most extraordinary people I have met in this industry, and the screening career is honestly just the beginning of the story.
Geoff started as a military intelligence officer, a juvenile probation counselor, a law enforcement officer, and an insurance fraud investigator before stumbling onto consumer data at CDB Infotech in the early nineties and never looking back. In this episode, we cover the career, the compliance lessons, the FCRA case he argued and won in a Texas justice of the peace trailer, and then we get into the part of his life that genuinely blew me away. Every year, Geoff personally organizes and funds a trip to Lourdes, France for people with terminal and life-limiting illnesses through the Order of Malta. He re-enlisted in the Army at his mid-fifties to help returning soldiers. And he sits with formerly incarcerated people to walk them through their second chance options.
Pro Conversation You Don't Want to Miss!
- The compliance lesson Geoff lives by after 30 years: fast and cheap gets you in court. Speed with accuracy is the only way to do it right
- How he argued and won the first FCRA federal preemption case in Texas in a justice of the peace trailer, not as a lawyer, and what it means for how state and federal law interact in background screening
- The Order of Malta and what it actually looks like to charter a plane, coordinate medical staff, and personally care for 45 people with life-ending illnesses for eight days in southern France
- The moment that wrecked everyone at the dinner table: a late-30s mother with stage four cancer got up and said she had a miracle, and the miracle was calling her daughters to tell them she was okay to die
- Why Geoff re-enlisted with the Army Chaplain Corps in his mid-fifties to do death notifications and suicide intervention for returning soldiers, on his own time and at his own expense
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