Richard Wilmot

General Wilmot joined The Steele Foundation in July 1999, was the company's CEO until 2002 and then became an Executive Director until 2004. The Steele Foundation is one of the "Big Five" global risk management companies. Steele, with offices around the world, is on the front lines in the fight against terrorism today.

Having been in 106 countries, his life is replete with fabulous true adventures from around the world. For example, he traveled into Afghanistan and was an advisor to the Afghan rebels when they were fighting the Soviet Army in the mid-1980s. This foray alone has resulted in many interesting anecdotes, realizations, and a broad understanding of events from that time which are tied to the international terrorist situation we face today. To hear him masterfully weave together his experiences with the Afghan Rebels in the context of today's events is spell binding. In another "hair raising" operation, he successfully engineered the removal, unknown to the Russians, of twelve T-72 tanks from the inventory of the Soviet Army, which changed the fortunes of the ground war against Iraq during operation Desert Storm. This real life adventure is being documented in a soon-to-be-published Plausible Denial, a book involving foreign governments, the KGB, the Pentagon, and a cast of sinister but interesting characters.

General Wilmot is a successful entrepreneur and a powerful international businessman. He doesn't study and write theories about leadership; he practices leadership in tense areas of the world and in crisis situations where leading has no room for error. He is a motivator, strategic planner, doer, and a man with unbelievable and engaging stories about his adventures from around the world.

A graduate of Michigan State University, the US Army War College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Command and General Staff College, and having studied at Oxford, General Wilmot will more than entertain an audience. He will provide instructive ideas, useful opinions, insights, and concepts from the world of international business, politics, government, crisis management, leadership, and security. He will also motivate and move the audience along to higher levels of inspiration, loyalty, productivity, and business skills.