Gregg Ward is the founder and executive director of the Center for Respectful Leadership and a bestselling, award-winning author, speaker, facilitator, and executive coach. Gregg is on a mission to transform lives and organizations by focusing on respectful leadership; emotional, social and cultural intelligence; and executive presence.
Gregg’s latest book, The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation (Wiley, 2016/18) was awarded Best Book of the Month by Amazon and became a bestseller. In 2018, the book won the gold medal in the prestigious Axiom Business Book Awards competition.
Gregg began his career in 1986 as a specialist trainer for the New York City Police Department. Since then, he has developed and delivered more than 2,500 keynote presentations and talks, training programs, seminars, webinars, and workshops in North America, Europe, and the Middle East for organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Kaiser Permanente, Ford, Qualcomm, the United States Navy, and Warner Bros Studios.

Gregg holds a BFA from Boston University and is a Board Certified Coach (BCC), Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC), CMC-Emeritus (certified management consultant), and executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership.