Gregg Ward is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Respectful Leadership and an award-winning, bestselling author, speaker, facilitator, and executive coach who is on a global mission to support leadership and organizational transformation through the positive power of respect. Clients include ADP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bristo-Myers Squibb, Ericsson, Federated Dept. Stores, Ford, HR West (3x), Harley-Davidson, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Leonardo DRS, Qualcomm, the US Navy, and Warner Bros. Studios. Ward is an expert speaker who got his start as a specialist trainer for the NYPD. Since then, he’s developed and delivered over 2,500 keynotes, seminars and programs in North America, Western Europe and the Middle East. His second book The Respectful Leader: seven ways to influence without intimidation (Wiley 2016) became a bestseller, was named an Amazon Best-Book-of-the-Month, and won the Gold Medal for Best Business Fable in the prestigious Axiom Business Book Awards Competition.