Steven Mays – Author of “The Power of 3: Lessons in Leadership” Authorhouse

Courage is overcoming fear to take actions that benefit somebody else, without regard to the consequences to yourself.

Steven was born in Charleston, West Virginia into an Air Force family and is proud to be called a military brat. He traveled the country and the world following his father during his career as an Air Force Sergeant. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy on June 5, 1974, having majored in math, and was selected for the Navy Nuclear Power program following a successful interview with Admiral Rickover. He earned his gold dolphins aboard the USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) which was the lead ship in the Navy’s fleet of attack submarines. He served on operational deployments to the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. His civilian career involved safety and risk evaluations of nuclear power plants for the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the civilian nuclear power industry in the United States and Canada, and government service with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff. He obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering via the GI Bill while working full time at the INL. He resides in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife Barbara who has managed to put up with him for over 30 years. He has six children (including a set of triplets), and five grandchildren. He is passionate about story-telling and the subject of leadership. Steve believes that leaders are made, not born and that teaching others how to lead is the most rewarding and vital occupation anyone can participate in.




Douglas Squirrel – Founder of Insanely Profitable Tech Newsletter douglassquirrel and squirrelsquardron. 

Far too few people start conversations being curious… I bet if your
listeners sat down and wrote down the words they said in their last
difficult conversation, almost none of the sentences would end with
a question mark.

Douglas Squirrel has been coding for forty years and has led software teams for twenty. He uses the power of conversations to create dramatic productivity gains in technology organizations of all sizes. His experience includes growing software teams as a CTO in startups from fintech to biotech to music, and everything in between; consulting on product improvement at over 200 organizations in the UK, US, Australia, Africa, and Europe; and coaching a wide variety of leaders in improving their conversations, aligning to business goals, and creating productive conflict. He lives in Frogholt, England, in a timber-framed cottage built in the year 1450. He is the author of Squirrel’s Tech Radar, Decoding Tech Talk, and Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture, co-authored with Jeffrey Fredrick.

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