Rod Kuntz

Rod Kuntz is a Leadership Architect, author, educator, entrepreneur, and speaker whose mission is to help ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things.

As the author of The W.A.R.P.A.T.H. Alliance: A Battle Plan to Discover, Develop, and Deploy Your Super Powers, Rod equips leaders, teams, and organizations with practical strategies to unlock potential, increase influence, and create lasting results.

With a career spanning entrepreneurship, leadership development, public service, education, sales, construction, agriculture, and military service, Rod brings a rare combination of real-world experience and actionable insight to every stage. His ability to connect leadership principles to everyday challenges makes his presentations engaging, relatable, and immediately applicable.

A certified John Maxwell Speaker, Coach, and Trainer, Rod has spent decades teaching leadership, communication, personal development, and entrepreneurship. He was a founding member of the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate (Y.E.S.), a regular guest on the "Answer is YES" podcast, and helped develop entrepreneurship curriculum designed to assist aspiring business owners in creating and activating their business plans.

Rod has written military training missions for the Montana National Guard, developed educational lesson plans, coached entrepreneurs, and trained leaders across multiple industries. His diverse business background—from commission sales and retail operations to wholesale distribution and network marketing—has given him firsthand insight into the challenges leaders face at every level of an organization. His ability to strengthen leadership execution, accountability, and team alignment has been sharpened by real world experience that moves people from vision to action.

Beyond business, Rod is deeply committed to community leadership. He served two terms on the Kalispell City Council, sat on the Growth Policy Committee, co-chaired the Mayor's Homeless Task Force, and currently serves on the City-County Health Board. His leadership philosophy is grounded in the belief that success carries a responsibility to serve others and strengthen the communities we call home.

Audiences appreciate Rod's authentic style, practical wisdom, engaging storytelling, and ability to inspire action. Whether speaking to corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, nonprofit organizations, educators, or community groups, Rod delivers powerful lessons that help people discover their strengths, develop their leadership capacity, and deploy their unique gifts with confidence and purpose.

Rod and his wife, Marcy, a licensed midwife, live in northwest Montana. Together they are proud parents of four children and grandparents to nine grandchildren, who inspire their commitment to leaving the world better than they found it.