Lead from the heart.
Build trust.
Win with your people.
Rear Admiral Mike Manazir helps leaders build high-trust teams, develop people, and lead with clarity, courage, and heart.
Top Gun Graduate
USS Nimitz Commander
Carrier Strike Group Commander
Two-Star Rear Admiral
Boeing & Hadrian Executive
Bestselling Author
Trusted by leaders and organizations including
Prudential Financial
Stellantis
ACA Connects
Michigan National Guard
Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce
Three Signature Keynotes
Lead to Win
Building High-Trust Teams Through Clarity, Courage, and Heart
When the margin for error is zero, leadership is the force that holds a team together. Mike shows leaders how to build trust, culture, and conviction that let people perform at their best.
✓ Takeaway: Trust, connection, accountability, courageous leadership.
From Carrier to Business
What Billion-Dollar Navy Operations Can Teach Any Organization
Mike translates the lessons of carrier command into practical leadership for organizations navigating growth, change, complexity, and demanding performance.
✓ Takeaway: Clarity, execution, accountability, mission focus.
From Setbacks to Strength
Battle-Tested Lessons in Resilience, Failure, and the Courage to Keep Going
Mike shows audiences how strong leaders face failure, extract the lesson, regain confidence, and move forward stronger.
✓ Takeaway: Learn fast, own the lesson, keep going.
What leaders are saying
“Mike delivers unparalleled leadership insights with real-world experience and heartfelt wisdom.”
— Admiral Bill Moran,
U.S. Navy (Ret.)
“One of the most compelling and inspiring speakers I have heard.”
— Pfizer Ambassador
Program participant
“Nobody looked at their phones for a full hour.”
— Senior Leader,
Johnson & Johnson
A lifetime of leadership.
Mike Manazir spent 36 years leading in the U.S. Navy—from Top Gun and fighter cockpits to command of the USS Nimitz and Carrier Strike Group Eight—before bringing those lessons into business at Boeing and Hadrian. Today he speaks to leaders who want to build trust, grow their people, and win together.
36
Years of Navy Leadership
3,750
Fighter Hours
1,240
Carrier Landings
15
Overseas Deployments
Beyond the keynote
Mike’s books and weekly leadership insights keep the conversation going long after the keynote ends.
Learn How to Lead to Win
Lessons in Leadership from a Navy Admiral
Lead to Win Strategies for Success
Weekly leadership insights and stories.