Vincent E. Boles

Vincent E. Boles

Major General, US Army (Retired)

AL, US
A Leader, World Class Logistician, Coach, & Developer of Teams, Focused on Ensuring You and Your Team's "Best Gets Better"

As a leader, the challenge is to create a climate that not only encourages your people to give their best but also ensures that your team's best gets better. Army Major General Vincent "Vinny" Boles helps you meet this challenge. Vinny's expertise was in leading people and building the teams in large organizations to accomplish the toughest tasks (supporting our deployed troops) under the toughest conditions (combat). As an expert in supply chain management, his teams provided what our nation's troops needed, where they needed it and when, in order to be successful around the world. For five consecutive years after the attacks of 9-11, the Army assigned Vinny to command soldiers, civilians, and contractors in five continents, including combat operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom. With Vinny, you get a leader who has built a strategy, planned it, and executed it successfully. Vinny's presentations and services offer practical tools and techniques and will share these lessons with you and your team.

As a leader, the challenge is to create a climate that not only encourages your people to give their best but also ensures that your team's best gets better. Army Major General Vincent "Vinny" Boles helps you meet this challenge. Vinny's expertise was in leading people and building the teams in large organizations to accomplish the toughest tasks (supporting our deployed troops) under the toughest conditions (combat). As an expert in supply chain management, his teams provided what our nation's troops needed, where they needed it and when, in order to be successful around the world. For five consecutive years after the attacks of 9-11, the Army assigned Vinny to command soldiers, civilians, and contractors in five continents, including combat operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom. With Vinny, you get a leader who has built a strategy, planned it, and executed it successfully. Vinny's presentations and services offer practical tools and techniques and will share these lessons with you and your team.

4-3-2-1 Leadership (Based on his best selling book)

Leaders today don't require "help" that sounds good in a PowerPoint presentation and fades under the heat and pressure of reality. They need tools that hold up when the stakes are high so that they can be better practitioners of their leadership craft. Using the 33 years of experience in leading America's sons and daughters and providing the right support in the toughest conditions, Major General Boles delivers to your team 10 time and battle tested tools that they can begin using right now...
LeadershipEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Leveraging The Links In Your Supply Chain

Drawing on his 33 years as a career Soldier and logistician at every level, Major General Boles will walk through the links in the worlds largest and most complex supply chain from the port to the Pentagon and highlight 4 critical issues that will snag/kink your supply chain:

Standards you use.

Systems you put in place to attain those standards. 

Who is in charge of your standards, your systems? ...the critical intersecting points. 
Educational / Informative

Leadership…That Tool That Lies Between 'Juggling' & 'Magic'

 

"Juggling" is a verb defined by the Merriam dictionary as: "To keep several objects in motion in the air at the same time by repeatedly throwing and catching them"

Merriam defines "Magic" as a noun, specifically: "A power that allows people to do impossible things by saying special words or performing special actions"

"Leadership" is that topic that, alphabetically, finds itself between these two, and often is...

LeadershipEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

CHANGE; IT HAPPENS…ARE YOU READY OR REACTING?

A GOOGLE SEARCH OF "CHANGE" DELIVERS 12.19 BILLION "HITS" USING HIS 40 + YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN CHANGE EFFORTS IN THE WORLDS LARGEST SUPPLY CHAIN, VINNY WILL DISCUSS HOW LEADERS AND TEAMS CAN TAKE CHARGE OF CHANGE:

          WHAT CHANGE IS (AND ISN'T)

          HOW CHANGE AFFECTS ORGANIZATIONS

          THE COMPONENTS OF CHANGE (what happens when one is missing)

     ...

Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

LEADING IN A CRISIS…THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN "TIMES LIKE THESE"

TOUGH TIMES ARE NOT UNIQUE TO TODAYS ENVIRONMENT. HAVING FACED HIS SHARE OF CHALLENGES WITH HIS TEAMS UNDER A MULTITUDE OF CONDITIONS, VINNY WILL ILLUSTRATE:

THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN "TIMES LIKE THESE"

WHAT A LEADER'S DUTY ISN'T

SETTING THE CONDITIONS TO MEET THE CRISIS

ACTIONS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE CRISIS

LeadershipEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Achieving and Maintaining Work-Life Balance

LESSONS IN LIFE FOR LEADERS...ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING A WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Balancing the requirements of the workplace with the demands and desires of family and home has occupied ever-expanding column space on the web and the printed page. There is: "Work-Life Balance: Tips from 24 Entrepreneurs boiled down to 1"; "5 Secrets to Achieving Work-Life Balance"; "Work-Life Balance; Is It Possible?"...etc....

In this presentation retired Major...
Life and Work TransitionsEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing