Battlefield Leadership Training & Tours
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES
John believes leadership cannot be solely taught–it must be experienced. Through his own unique lens as a combat veteran and former C-Level executive, John offers interactive tours of Revolutionary War, Civil War and World War II battlefields–extending from Valley Forge and Yorktown to Gettysburg and Normandy. All of his battlefield tours are fully customized and experiential, and while they will offer unique historical perspectives, they are primarily designed to convey enduring leadership lessons the directly relate to your company or organization.
Battlefield Leadership Training & Tours
Leadership Lessons from the Battle of Gettysburg
If you are seeking a truly transformative leadership development experience and an innovative alternative to the traditional executive offsite for your team, the Battle of Gettysburg Leadership Seminar and Tour will meet all of your team’s objectives.
Hallowed Ground: A Leadership Tour of Arlington National Cemetery
We all lead through our own example! And there is no better place to illustrate that basic truth than at Arlington National Cemetery. One of our nation’s most compelling—and little-known—leadership experiences can be found at Arlington.
Leadership Lessons from D-Day
The D-Day Leadership Experience in Normandy is tailored to meet your intent and desired focus in leadership development training for a once-in-a-lifetime experience that extends well beyond the conventional tour in historical substance and leadership theory—ranging from adaptive leadership to character and values-based leadership and critical decision- making.. For leaders at all levels, the Normandy Applied Leadership Experience is a transformative event, in every way.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
John believes all of us lead through our own personal examples. Learn how you can transform your organization into a high-performing team, that is well-led at all levels. John brings leadership development to life through unforgettable, immersive and interactive leadership keynote addresses, lectures and seminars that are focused on further developing character-driven leadership, ethics, and trust.
Leadership Development
The Green Beret Way: Achieving Objectives Unconventionally, “By, With and Through”
As a retired senior Army Special Forces officer (“Green Beret”) and author of three novels, John will share his experiences from the West Wing of the White House and the E-Ring of the Pentagon, to the many war and crisis zones he has operated in around the world.
Resilience in the Face of Adversity
What does it take to not just overcome adversity, but to conquer it, so that, in the end, you and your team come out better and stronger for the experience? Learn how others have used adversity to their advantage, and how they took advantage of the challenges confronting them in the most challenging circumstances.
The Enduring Value of Story Telling
All good leaders are effective storytellers—because they must communicate their story constantly. They understand all of the dynamics of a good story. Through his own experience as a senior Special Forces officer who has operated throughout the world’s war and crisis zones, and a novelist, John will show you and your team how to think about stories and storytelling as a routine method to achieve all of your goals.
Leadership, Teamwork and Story Telling
Today’s teams are different from the teams of the past. They’re more dispersed, digital, and diverse. John talks about the essential qualities of leadership and teamwork conveyed through a series of personal stories and historical case studies that will guide your team to a visceral understanding of what makes leaders and their teams great.
Military 101: Understanding The Veteran
If your company includes customers who are veterans and veteran families, John’s “Military 101” presentation will provide the foundation you and your team needs to relate directly to them and to serve them effectively.
Military 102: The Vietnam War and Military 103: Vietnam: Could We have Won?
For companies whose customers include Vietnam Veterans, these presentations serve as a crucial cornerstone to serving out veterans in the best possible, most empathetic way. John offers a compelling, historic perspective of the Vietnam War in two one-hour long presentations to your team members. The culmination event for this program is a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on the National Mall in Washington, DC, led by the Wall’s Founder, Jan Scruggs.