Waldo Waldman is a professional speaker, leadership and sales consultant, author and a former decorated Air Force fighter pilot. In his inspirational keynote presentation, Waldo demonstrates how businesspersons like fighter pilots can achieve success and win in highly competitive environments through disciplined training, dedicated teamwork, and passionate leadership. When you combine these elements with an attitude and corporate culture that embraces unwavering trust, then your personal and organizational effectiveness will sky-rocket!
The key to building a culture of trust and winning in business and life lies with your wingmen – your trusted and reliable partners who passionately support the team and help you to overcome obstacles, adapt to change, and achieve success. In life, you should never fly solo!
Waldo overcame a lifelong battle with claustrophobia and a fear of heights to become a highly decorated fighter pilot with over 65 real world combat missions. His experiences both in the military and in business have taught him that success in business and life is not about combat. Rather, it is about cooperation, commitment, and camaraderie.
Waldo’s captivating personal stories combined with dramatic jet fighter video footage and inspirational music (composed by him!) will encourage you to prepare diligently for every mission, face challenges and change with courage, build more meaningful relationships, and maximize your potential both in business and in life!
This keynote is perfect for companies looking to build a more cohesive organization and enhance relationships across various divisions such as marketing, sales, IT, finance, and customer service. It’s also fitting for partner meetings where a company brings in its major suppliers, clients, and vendors.
Audiences will learn to:
- Employ Loyal "Wingmen" to Promote Communication, Integrity, and Trust
- "Check-6" to Develop a Culture of Teamwork and Mutual Support
- Execute a Business Game Plan to Survive and WIN!
- "Chair-Fly" Sales Missions to Vastly Increase Revenues
- Transform Relationships into Revenue
- Convert Fear into Focus
- Lead with Courage and Compassion
Rob ‘Waldo’ Waldman - The Wingman - delivers the message of maximizing performance in competitive environments. He teaches organizations how to build trusting, revenue producing relationships with their employees, partners, and customers while relaying his personal experiences as a combat decorated fighter pilot and businessman. He makes a striking parallel that is memorable and exciting and brings fighter-pilot energy and passion into each story and illustration.
His message is simple: Whether achieving greatness as a fighter pilot or in business, the same qualities that drive success apply: disciplined training, dedicated teamwork, impassioned leadership, and most of all…unwavering trust. More importantly, in business and life, we need Wingmen – Trusted and Reliable Partners – to win!
Waldo believes that the key to building a culture of trust lies with your wingmen – those trusted partners in life who help you to overcome obstacles, adapt to change, and achieve success. In business and life, you should never fly solo! The way to win when the heat is on lies in the ability of every wingman in your organization, regardless of their role, to give 110% and support the team!
A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Waldo also holds an MBA with a focus on Organizational Behavior. Having transitioned from Top Gun to top salesman and entrepreneur, Waldo evolved into a peak performance expert with a passionate ability to adapt to risky and demanding situations. His unique experiences in competitive and diverse environments both in the military and in corporate America enable him to genuinely relate to the challenges individuals face both in and out of the workplace.
Audiences relate to Waldo because he speaks from the heart and has an infectious passion for helping people. His captivating personal stories combined with dramatic jet fighter video footage and inspirational music (composed by him!) will encourage you to
prepare diligently for every mission, face challenges with courage, build more meaningful relationships, and maximize your potential both in business and in life.