About Ron Hewett

My approach to leadership is based on 40 years of leadership experience working in a variety of environments that require a no-nonsense approach. We provide training, but more importantly, the follow-up to ensure that the training has made the proper impact. My customers find our offerings to be effective with value showing up on their bottom line.

Ron is the founder and president of Leadership and Performance Strategies. His leadership experience is unique. He started as a teenage deck hand on a shrimp trawler off the Carolina Coast, studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then later attended and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. A military career included ship command during the Persian Gulf War and Pentagon assignments as a strategic planner designing the modern Navy's manpower structure, as well as redesigning the military logistics infrastructure after Desert Storm.

After a military career, Ron developed and administered a leadership program for at-risk teenagers in the Washington, DC area.

Ron went on to a successful tenure as the Senior Director of Safety and Training for the port facilities operated by the Danish shipping corporation, Maersk. Ron's facilities developed safety programs considered to be the best in the US. His expertise was extended to international ports. Central to the success of these ports was the management training program Ron developed to support the entry level and mid-grade managers.

As a leadership trainer and coach, Ron provides leadership workshops that are balanced with humor and challenge. He brings out the best attributes in teams and individuals while emphasizing basic time-proven leadership principles. He also provides executive coaching with emphasis on feedback instruments provided in association with the Center for Creative Leadership. All programs are performance oriented and focus on applications in the workplace, community, and home.

In addition to his bachelor or science degree from Annapolis, Ron holds an M.S. in Management Science from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He has done additional graduate study and research in the field of education at The George Washington University.

CEO's like...

...our one-day Just Lead Workshops that gives their personnel a full day of challenge, practical discussions, and reinforcement based on the principle responsibilities of all leaders. We don't just talk about leadership we practice it. This practical and entertaining approach enables their managers and staff to leverage their own leadership attributes to provide more energy and imagination to the team. The result is their people.

• discover communication skills
• appreciate the abilities and contributions of all team members
• understand the value of teamwork
• develop a more efficient work place while energizing their creativity

An assessment before the workshop and afterwards enables you to determine the impact of the training. Follow-up sessions provide your team the confidence they need to employ the strategies. Leadership and Performance Strategies provides the training value needed for forward-leaning organizations. To make a company profitable, CEOs want leadership that works!

Managers learn...

...that our Just Lead Workshops are designed for maximum impact with a minimum of disruptions to their busy work-week. The workshops provide them strategies to employ on a daily basis to work with people and get things done. These strategies include:

• effective listening
• leveraging the skills and ideas of the people they work with and supervise
• a foundation for problem solving and assigning tasks
• the often overlooked follow-up skills needed to ensure continued success

They find that a simple approach to sharpening their leadership talents pays benefits immediately as they go about their daily routine. Leadership and Performance Strategies provides mangers the tools they need and follow-up sessions to make them confident. They learn the skills for leadership that works.

Human Resource Directors appreciate...

...that Just Lead Workshops provide a basic leadership foundation that will create a scaffold for the various elements of their training programs—diversity, coaching, mentoring, time-management, team-building, communication, negotiating, conflict resolution, and
many other elements that they provide to their company's personnel. Leadership and Performance Strategies enables the HR Director to pull together the individual elements and provide a more effective training experience because personnel now have the complete picture. The entire organization wins when the focus is on leadership that works.

Not-for-profit organizations benefit...

(I provide special rates for non-profit organizations)

...from Just Lead Workshops by bringing together board members, program directors, staff members, and other community leaders in a challenging and fun environment. During the workshops they:

• learn leadership and team-building skills
• develop positive dialog among their team players
• foster an environment of trust
• develop problem-solving skills and an action-oriented mindset

This results in an effective and cohesive team that ensures success in achieving their ultimate goal of effectively providing services to the community with good stewardship of available resources. The community will benefit from leadership that works.