Is one born a leader, or does one grow into it? This fast-paced talk covers the last 200 years of study of the art and science of leadership. Among others, it answers the age-old question about what leadership is, and where it comes from.
Based on his book “SaltWater Leadership,” Admiral Wray provides plenty of real-life examples, and suggestions for how we can become better leaders.
Everyone wants to be a better leader, but how best to start?
This session includes a broad list of possibilities, and provides a method for improving leadership skills in 15 days. Further, it provides a paradigm for long-term growth in leadership potential.
In dozens of leadership circumstances, in business, in war, in the community, Admiral Wray has observed four crucial characteristics that must be present to ensure success.
In this talk, based on his varied experiences, he discusses those four attributes, and how you can implement them to ensure your leadership success.
Change is constant, and change management is a science. Organizations who embrace change and take the steps to manage it do better than those who avoid it or stumble through it haphazardly.
In this talk, Admiral Wray teaches a semester course on change management in 45 minutes.
As a young man, Admiral Wray was a salesman, and a manager of salespeople.
In this rapid-fire talk he discusses the classic rules of management and leadership, and how they apply in the tumultuous world of sales and sales management.
In this personal talk, Admiral Wray talks candidly and earnestly about the times in his life in which he has failed, or in which his organizations have failed. He pulls the hard-earned lessons from 40 years of organizational management mistakes, and provides them to the audience in simple, easy-to-remember lessons.
Every organization, no matter how large or small, has a culture. And that culture ultimately determines the organization’s success.
Based on his 40-years of experience, Admiral Wray explains what organizational culture is, how it is created, and how you can change it to achieve the success you want.
This riveting talk explains how the internet works, and how it is the newest domain for warfare between nation states, and between business competitors.
Admiral Wray’s talk combines technology, geo-political strategy, and the rules of armed conflict to set the groundwork for your understanding of cyber security.
Warning: be prepared to leave the room feeling less secure than when you walked in.
We watch pirate movies, and we sometimes talk like pirates, but how much do we really know about piracy in the world today? Admiral Wray’s ships stood face-to-face with pirates.
In this entertaining talk, he’ll teach you want and need to know about piracy, and help you draw conclusions on whether you need to worry about it.
Energy runs the world, but short of flipping on the light switch, few of us understand how it’s created and distributed.
In this session, Admiral Wray dons his nuclear engineer hat to teach the audience about energy in all its forms: nuclear, coal, gas, hydro-electric, solar, and geo-thermal.
A fun, informative session. Mostly photos and diagrams—no equations, we promise!
We hear a lot about the federal budget, but virtually no one understands how it is created or where it goes.
Admiral Wray has fought the budget wars in Washington, and uses that experience to give a light-hearted overview of where federal dollars come from, where they go, and how we determine both.
Every hour of every day your American Navy employs hundreds of thousands of US citizens around the world, under the ocean, on the ocean, in the air, and in space.
This fast-paced talk uses 100 photos to explain to you what your Navy is doing on your behalf, and why. A fun, entertaining overview for any group, and a client favorite.
Like most of us, Admiral Wray didn’t know nuttin’ about Antarctica. Until he went there.
This fun talk describes the history of the continent, his visit to the South Pole, the present status of international efforts, and the future of this mostly-unknown area of the earth.
