Introduction

Marty Strong is a retired Navy SEAL officer and combat veteran. He is a novelist, a practicing CEO and Chief Strategy Officer, and the author of Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business, and a second book, Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization, set for release in December 2022. Marty's spent a lifetime meeting challenges head on, succeeding in three professions, anticipating crisis, and leading through chaos. 

Background

When he left the SEAL Teams after twenty years, Marty joined UBS as an investment professional (7 years) focused on high-net-worth individuals. Seventy-five percent of his clients were self-made entrepreneurs and half had no college education. Marty learned key entrepreneurial lessons about what business leadership and success looks like, and what attributes are shared by highly successful people. Marty left the financial services industry to build and lead rapidly scaling companies. This involved defining market value, working with M&A pros, and buying or selling business units or companies. It also involved organizational design and scaling strategies (IT tool and processes implementation, integrating software, hardware, and talent solutions) to meet demand or new external challenges to doing business. Marty is currently the CEO of four companies within an ESOP enterprise structure and serves on two corporate boards. He writes about his experiences and insights in his book Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business. The book was released January 1, 2022. The sequel, Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization, is set for release December 2, 2022. Marty has been interviewed on national news shows hundreds of times and is comfortable as a guest on radio and Podcast media formats.