Where It All Began: The Story Behind Novert

Novert Group was never meant to be just a company. It was born as a response to failure — the failure of outdated protection systems to evolve, to adapt, to serve the world as it truly is today. The last major evolution in close protection came in the early 1980s. Since then, the world changed — but the doctrine didn’t. Until now.

 At the centre of this shift is Lucas Atkins — a world-leading protection strategist, instructor, and architect of modern protective thought. A former Prime Ministerial Close Protection Officer — the most elite operational role in the profession — Lucas has worked in warzones, riots, and elite diplomatic corridors. But that’s not what defines him.

What defines him is what came next.

Years spent questioning everything. Tearing apart tradition. Studying not only the art of protection, but the human psyche itself.

He moved with the calm rhythm of a yogi, the deliberate control of a tactician, and the presence of a man who had nothing to prove — yet everything to protect.

Driven by a deeper calling, Lucas studied yoga, mindfulness, psychotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, behavioural science, and the neurobiology of trauma. What emerged was not a system built on fear and reaction — but one built on clarity, adaptation, and inner mastery.

This became Variable Protective Postures (VPP) — the first true evolution of protective doctrine in over 40 years. A fluid, posture-based operating system that replaces outdated templates with real-time cognition, movement flow, and psychological edge.

From that same core philosophy came Threatagility — the neuroscience-backed principle of non-template threat detection and fluid protective awareness. It applies as much to a child walking home from school as it does to a Tier 1 operator navigating a high-threat extraction.

From that same philosophy emerged a new operational reality — one the world had no name for until now. For decades, protection operated in just two modes: Overt and Covert. But Lucas saw the gap — the absence of an identity for those who moved without signature, without signal, without form. And so he named it: Novert. Not just a term, but a new terrain. A space where protection becomes invisible, where presence dissolves into the environment, and where the most powerful move is the one no one sees coming.

That’s why Novert exists.

To serve those who walk the edge — whether that edge is a dark street, a war zone, or the emotional battlefield of everyday life.

Lucas built this company not to be seen — but to be felt. Novert doesn’t advertise. Novert whispers.

It trains elite operators. It awakens everyday civilians. It equips parents, children, executives, and warriors alike with the ability to move through the world with presence, protection, and peace.

Because the warrior and the seeker were never meant to be separate. They were always meant to be one.

And at the centre of it all is one man —

The one who walked away from the spotlight to build a system that works in the shadows.

A man who teaches others to see more, feel more, and live more — not through paranoia, but through presence.

Because the real mission isn’t security.

It’s awakening.

And Novert is how it begins.