Waldo Waldman
The Wingman: Former F-16 Pilot & Leadership Expert
Traveling From: Atlanta, GA
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Why Book This Speaker
While there are hundreds of motivational speakers to choose from, you want one that that you can trust to deliver a unique keynote that not only can engages the audience with customized content, but also inspires them to take action that leads to bottom line results. Waldo’s leadership strategies will guide you to approach adversity with confidence and win.
Waldo has earned his wings as a motivational keynote speaker, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and was recently inducted into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame, one of less than 180 speakers in the world (including Colin Powell and Zig Ziglar.) He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), which is the speaking industry’s international measure of professional platform skill (only 7% of all speakers worldwide have this certification.) Finally, he holds an MBA and has real world sales experience.
With Waldo Waldman as your motivational keynote speaker, you’ll accomplish your meeting objectives and he’ll make you look great. He and his staff will help you customize a powerful kick-off or closing keynote and will help set a positive tone of teamwork, trust and collaboration at the beginning of your meeting, and will leave your audience inspired to take action at its conclusion.
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Keynote
Never Fly Solo
In today’s highly competitive world of constant change, those who build trust, lead with courage, and work as a team will dodge the missiles of adversity and win. In this high energy, inspirational, and interactive keynote, decorated fighter pilot, New York Times bestselling author, and Hall of Fame Speaker Lt Col (ret.) Waldo Waldman will share tools and techniques to overcome obstacles, break performance barriers, and take charge of change during adverse times. You’ll discover how to re-commit yourself to excellence, prepare diligently for every mission; and collaborate with your partners, clients and co-workers with trust, mutual support, and courage.
About Waldo
Lt. Col. Waldo Waldman, The Wingman, is a Hall of Fame leadership speaker, executive coach, and the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Never Fly Solo®. He teaches organizations how to build trusting, revenue producing relationships with their employees, partners, and customers while sharing his experiences as a combat decorated F-16 fighter pilot, sales manager, and entrepreneur.
In addition to his time in the military, Waldo has real world corporate sales and management experience and is an expert on change management, peak performance, and resilience – having broken through a lifelong fear of heights and overcoming claustrophobia as a fighter pilot. A key message in his inspirational “Never Fly Solo” signature keynotes and seminars is that you can’t reach your highest potential alone. You need wingmen – trusted partners – to help you win when adversity strikes.
New York Times & Wall Street Journal Bestseller Never Fly Solo®
Decorated fighter pilot Lt. Col. Waldo Waldman shares critical business concepts for success and delivers a very human message: we all have missiles in life to overcome and we can’t do it alone.
Never Fly Solo® is a flight plan for success told through compelling real world stories that bucks the typical Hollywood fighter pilot image. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, seasoned executive or simply looking to enhance your current personal relationships, you’ll learn to form powerful relationships that will break through the ceilings keeping you or your company from soaring to new heights. This book will help you earn your wings as a high performance leader.
Buy NowListen to Waldo on The Action Catalyst Podcast
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Waldo’s knowledge of the company and ability to place our current challenges into context, showed how much time, research, and planning he put into his performance. His infectious attitude carried over to the audience and was undoubtedly the highlight of this year’s conference
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Waldo delivered! His preparation and care in understanding our business challenges made his message extremely relevant. He’s an outstanding storyteller, funny and authentic.
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Inspirational and packed full of relevant business take-aways. His content was heartfelt and the audience never drifted.
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Hi Waldo and Team, we are grateful for the excellence in your process and presentation. The team loved every minute of it.
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