Rob "Waldo" Waldman delivers the message of maximizing performance in competitive environments and transforming relationships into revenue. While relaying his own personal experiences as a combat fighter pilot and businessman, he makes a striking parallel that is memorable and exciting. An expert speaker, entrepreneur and enthusiastic personality, Waldo brings fighter-pilot energy and passion into each story and illustration, providing a powerful and inspirational message to his audiences.

Waldo is President of The Patriot Group, a leadership and sales consulting firm based in Atlanta. An inspirational speaker and consultant, he travels nationwide teaching associations and corporations how to build trusting, revenue producing relationships with their employees, partners and customers.

A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Waldo also holds an MBA with a focus on Organizational Behavior. A former Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, he overcame a lifelong battle with claustrophobia and a fear of heights to become a highly decorated combat veteran with over 65 real world combat missions. Having transitioned from Top Gun to top salesman and entrepreneur, Waldo has 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 military and in corporate America enable him to genuinely relate to the challenges individuals face both in and out of the workplace.

Waldo believes that the key to building a culture of trust lies with your wingmen - the men and women in your life who help you to overcome obstacles and achieve success. In business and life, you should never fly solo! The solution to winning 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! 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.

Audiences love Waldo because he truly 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.

Waldo's amazing real world combat stories, told with passion and humor, bring his distinctive presentations to life. The analogies he makes to modern day leadership, sales and management issues provide a fresh and unique perspective to his motivational seminars. Waldo engages his audiences both visually and verbally, and inspires them to overcome challenges and to maximize their potential both in business and in life.

• Proud to be your Wingman!^SM - Fighter Pilot Trust Building Strategies to Impassion your Workforce : Waldo's keynote demonstrates how fighter pilots and businesspersons can achieve success and win in highly competitive environments through three powerful steps: 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 Power of Trust! - 5 Critical Steps to Transform Relationships into Revenue : Amidst our constant struggle to adapt to increasing time constraints, limited budgets, and a relentlessly changing economy, we often forget to maintain a focus on what truly drives any successful business transaction - relationships. The key to building and sustaining these relationships is to develop them based on mutual trust. When you combine trusting relationships with a product or service that truly provides value, you win in business - and life!
  
  
• The ACT Loop^SM - Outmaneuver and Beat the Competition! : The ACT Loop demonstrates how three critical elements to business planning are interrelated, and how you can transform your organization into a highly effective, "fast-response" company. Your team will learn to outmaneuver an adversary by executing proactively rather than reactively, and thus stay one step ahead of your enemy in the pursuit to increase revenues and win in business.
  
  
• Lead to Win! - Top Gun Leadership Secrets for Peak Performance : The key to building a high-powered organization that encourages innovative thinking, loyalty to the mission, and a relentless commitment to excellence lies with its leadership. In this high-energy workshop, Waldo highlights the difference between managing people and leading them to be responsible, empowered and confident wingmen. What results is a more productive and efficient organization with superior morale that can rapidly overcome challenges in a competitive marketplace.

• Employ your "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 Mission to Vastly Increase Revenues
• Transform Relationships into Revenue
• Convert Fear into Focus
• Lead with Courage and Compassion