Chad Williams | Navy SEAL Vet. | Keynote Speaker | Best-Selling Author
Chad Williams is a former U.S. Navy SEAL, best-selling author, and keynote speaker who helps leaders and teams perform under pressure. Known for a commanding, story-driven style and practical takeaways, Chad translates elite performance principles into repeatable leadership protocols that audiences can apply immediately.
7 SEAL Team Protocols to Transform Your Team
From the Battlefield to Business
In his signature keynote, SEVEN: Battle-Tested SEAL Team Leadership Protocols, Chad takes audiences inside a real mission that turned into a premeditated ambush and shares the protocols his team relied on to regain composure, make decisions, and execute under stress. He bridges those lessons into tools for today’s workplace, helping organizations strengthen trust, raise standards, and improve performance through uncertainty.
Chad tailors each keynote to the audience and event objectives, delivering an experience that is engaging, high-impact, and immediately useful.
SEVEN: Battle-Tested SEAL Team Leadership Protocols
Chad Williams | Former U.S. Navy SEAL
A practical keynote to help leaders and teams execute under pressure, raise standards, and build trust in high-change environments.
When the plan collapses and pressure spikes, performance comes down to protocol. In SEVEN, former Navy SEAL Chad Williams recounts a real combat operation in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province that turned into a premeditated ambush while his team hunted a deadly suicide-bomb manufacturer.
Chad translates the seven SEAL Team principles that helped his unit regain clarity, control fear, and execute under fire into practical leadership protocols for the workplace. Audiences leave with a repeatable playbook they can apply immediately.
Audience Takeaways: 7 Protocols
• AIM SMALL, MISS SMALL (Goal Setting)
• COMMON MAN WITH UNCOMMON DESIRE TO SUCCEED (Heart, Desire)
• HUMBLY I SERVE (Servant Leadership)
• FORGED BY ADVERSITY (Overcoming Obstacles, Resilience)
• EARN YOUR TRIDENT EVERY DAY (Innovation, Progression)
• CONTROL EMOTIONS AND ACTIONS REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES (Composure)
• HE WHO HAS A WHY CAN ENDURE ANY HOW (Purpose, Motivation)
Ideal for: leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, team building, company all-hands, and teams operating in high-change and high-pressure environments.
Transform Your Team with the Elite Strategies and Insights of the Navy SEALs
Chad Williams customizes SEAL Team insights for your specific corporate focus. His presentations are more than just talks; they're tailored experiences, infused with real-life lessons that resonate deeply with the audience individually and collectively.
Whether it be inspiring leaders with strategies for decisive action, teamwork with SEAL-caliber cohesion, instilling resilience to overcome any challenge, or emphasizing the critical importance of safety, Chad's keynotes are a masterclass in adaptation and impact, bringing a personalized and transformative experience to your next event.