Steve Ward Keynote Speaker

Former U.S. Navy SEAL
Leadership instructor and speaker for Echelon Front
Recipient of three Bronze Stars, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals and four Meritorious Service Medals

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Steve Ward's Biography

Steve Ward is a leadership speaker who is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and combat leader. Steve spent almost 30 years in the SEAL Teams with eleven deployments across the globe.

Steve brings unmatched experience in demonstrating combat leadership in dynamic environments, building winning teams, and developing relationships across all levels of an organization. Steve operated in violent urban environments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, seeing first-hand the power of applying the leadership lessons taught at Echelon Front.

Steve was one of the head leaders of his Task Unit when they relieved Task Unit Bruiser in Ramadi in October 2006. When he returned from that deployment he went to work for Jocko Willink as a head leader running Land Warfare Training for all four West Coast SEAL Teams. In this role, he managed high-risk evolutions and consistently innovated training techniques to increase the effectiveness of SEAL units preparing for combat deployments overseas.

As a speaker, Steve Ward brings a unique front-line perspective coupled with executive leadership experience, starting his military career as a front-line SEAL operator, and working his way up through numerous leadership positions within the SEAL Community including tactical leadership positions all the way up to becoming one of the head leaders running a SEAL Team and culminating into becoming one of the head leaders of all four West Coast SEAL Teams.

Steve understands how to bring a team together, work through challenges, and setting high standards. He is the recipient of three Bronze Stars, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals and four Meritorious Service Medals, and numerous other awards.

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Comments & Testimonials

The training Steve provided helped kickstart a shift in our company culture. I have been involved in numerous leadership training seminars and guest speakers but I have never received any amount of follow-up, much less an offer to provide additional perspective a year later. What Steve did was unexpected, and it goes to show that Echelon Front has bought in to the principles that you share with others. Asking about our employee who had suffered loss was just the icing on the cake. Steve remembered not only myself and my partner, but all of our leadership team and even specific employees from a year ago. His insight was very helpful and spot-on even a year later.

Travis Barnett P.E., CEO, Centerline Engineering & Consulting, LLC