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Waldo Waldman

Your Wingman. Best Selling Motivational Speaker

Waldman, Waldo

Your Wingman. Best Selling Motivational Speaker
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    About Waldo Waldman

    Motivational keynote speaker Waldo Waldman – The Wingman – is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Never Fly Solo. He teaches tactics on how to build trusting, revenue producing relationships with employees, partners, and customers while sharing his experiences as a decorated fighter pilot and sales expert. A graduate of the Air Force Academy, he holds an MBA with a focus on Organizational Behavior and is a former top producing sales manager.  He successfully led national sales efforts for several cutting edge technology and consulting firms before becoming a motivational speaker and leadership expert.

    Waldo overcame massive claustrophobia and a fear of heights to become a fighter pilot with 65 combat missions and 2,650 flight hours. He’s deployed worldwide and flew missions in Iraq, SE Asia, and Kosovo during Operation Allied Force. Waldo has been awarded 5 Air Medals, 2 Aerial Achievement Medals, 4 Commendation Medals, and 2 Meritorious Service Medals.

    Waldo has been inducted into the National Speaker’s Association Speaker Hall of Fame.Also known as the Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE), the award honors those who have reached the top echelon of platform excellence.  It has been bestowed on less than 200 speakers worldwide since 1977, including Colin Powell, Zig Ziglar, and Ronald Reagan. Waldo is also a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), which is the highest earned designation recognized in the professional speaking industry. Only 7% of all professional speakers hold this exclusive designation.

    Waldo believes that the key to building a culture of trust lies with your wingmen – those who help you to overcome obstacles, adapt to change, and achieve success. In business and life, you should never fly solo! The ability to win when the heat is on lies in the ability of every wingman in your organization, regardless of their role, to support the team and be 100% committed to the mission.

    Audiences connect with Waldo because of his extensive business background and his infectious passion for helping people. Through his motivational keynotes and leadership seminars, he applies the same principles that guaranteed his success in the competitive world of aerial combat. His message is simple –whether achieving victory as a fighter pilot or in business, the same qualities that ensure success apply: courage, accountability, preparation, integrity, teamwork, and a commitment to excellence. 

    A high energy motivational keynote speaker, Waldo was ranked one of the Top 40 under 40 Business Leaders in Georgia and has been featured on Fox & Friends, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, The Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, Success Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Business Week, and many other media outlets.

    Waldo is also the founder and President of The Wingman Foundation, a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to raise funds and awareness for soldiers, veterans and their families in need.

    Never Fly Solo

    Flying solo in business? You might think so. But take a good look around. You have support staff, co-workers and managers. You have suppliers, vendors, and distributors. And you have colleagues, family and significant others. In today’s super-charged, highly competitive world of rapid and constant change, those who build trust and work as a team will dodge the missiles of business and win.

    By committing yourself to excellence and by placing your trust in your team, you can overcome obstacles, adapt to change, and break performance barriers during adverse times. By placing your trust in your wingmen and by being a wingman to your clients, partners and co-workers, there is no business mission you can’t complete!

    This keynote is not about relating combat tactics to winning in business.

    Rather, it’s about focusing on what really matters in business – building high performance, trusting teams and fully serving your customers and co-workers. It’s about winning with integrity in highly competitive environments through disciplined training, dedicated teamwork, and courageous leadership.

    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 experience both in the military and business have taught him that success is about camaraderie, courage, and a commitment to excellence.

    Audiences connect with Waldo because he truly speaks from the heart and has an infectious passion for helping people. His customized business analogies and captivating personal stories combined with dramatic jet fighter video footage and inspirational music 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!

    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

    Testimonials

    “From our first contact through the high energy engagement and then finally with your follow up, you were a true professional. Your ability to personalize your message was admirable, as you really drove home a strong message of teamwork and trust amongst our partners at a critical time for our business.”
    – Hal Hitch, Vice President, Product and Marketing, CIT Financial – Office Technology Finance

    “Bottom line – Waldo was not giving a canned speech on teamwork, change, and unity. He was giving a speech to MTM Technologies, about MTM Technologies. He makes people laugh, listen, and engage, and in the end…remember!!’”
    – Lauren Berg, Marketing Manager, MTM Technologies

    “I was truly inspired by your message that true success lies in those you surround yourself with, the people on the ground…your wingmen. You reminded us that no pilot ever flies alone and that if one person fails, then the whole mission fails. Could there have ever been a truer statement?”
    – Steve Whipple, CEO, Amtrust Mortgage

    “Waldo, the effort that you put forth in preparing for the presentation was exceptional. Visiting one of our Labor Ready sites “at 6:00 a.m.!’” to see first hand our business in action, your phone interviews, and spending time with us in advance of your presentation all resulted in a message that was on target, exciting, motivating and very relevant!”
    – Gary North, Regional VP, Labor Ready Worldwide

    “WOW! Outstanding! Energetic! Great Speaker! This is how our members described your ‘Proud to be Your Wingman” keynote address. Your presentation was motivating, targeted to NARMS, and had innovative ideas applicable to our businesses. We especially liked your interaction with the audience and certainly benefited from your message.”
    – Gary Ebben, Executive Director, National Association of Retail Marketing Services”NARMS”