Ø     Dynamic, Inter-active Keynote Speaker

Ø     Unparalleled Military & Leadership experience to help managers and business leaders of groups large and small

Ø     Led hundreds of Soldiers from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds to victory in first Gulf War and at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe during the Kosovo Air Campaign, DoD advisor to initial Second Gulf War plans

Ø     Highly sought-after Defense/Policy Expert for organization and transformation

Ø     Regular contributor to major TV & Radio News Shows

Ø     Best-Selling Author 

Dr. Douglas A. Macgregor is an independent defense and foreign policy consultant with the firm, Glenside Analysis, Inc., based in Ashburn, Virginia. He is also a retired Colonel who left the Army on 1 June 2004 after 28 years of service, most of which was spent in armor, mechanized infantry and armored cavalry formations. In addition to writing several books on military affairs, Dr. Macgregor frequently appears on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, NBC and Fox News as an analyst of on-going military operations in Iraq and military transformation. He also speaks in person to public and private groups on leadership, technology and inspirational topics:

Speaking Topics  

Ø     Leaders you follow into fire and Leaders you push into the fire 

Ø     Culture and Carnage in the Workplace  

Ø     Macgregor’s X, Y and Z Theory or Why Some Organizations Work and Some Don’t 

Ø     The Destructive Power of Denial and Preconception

Ø     Transformation as Rationalization for the New Marketplace  

Ø     In Business and in War, the only thing permanently lost is time.  

Ø     Experimentation versus Demonstration  

Ø     Dealing with Bosses who are overly Self-Important  

Ø     How to make the boss think your idea is his/her idea, too!

Colonel Macgregor is the author of two other books, Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21^st Century, (published by Praeger, 1997), and The Soviet-East German Military Alliance, (published by Cambridge University Press, 1989).  His work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Stars & Stripes, Newsweek, and the Army Times. He regularly appears on the Lehrer News Hour and on other defense and news shows such as ABC World News Tonight as a commentator on current military operations in Iraq.

Colonel Macgregor holds an M.A. in comparative politics, as well as a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Virginia.  He also served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.