I work with CEOs and leadership teams to help them navigate through uncertainty and change.

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I know what it's like to make a high-stakes call with incomplete information and no time. I flew combat jets off aircraft carriers, more than 300 landings, many of them at night. I then spent 20 years leading teams at startups, Google, and Meta, where the pressure looked different but felt familiar. Today I coach executives at Harvard Business School and bring those lessons to leadership teams.

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Author of the bestseller Soar Into Joy,
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She’s Just Another Navy Pilot

Loree’s Offerings

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Keynote or Workshop

Drawing on her experience as one of the first women to deploy in a Navy combat aviation squadron and as a leader at Google, Meta, and startups, Loree Draude brings audiences into the cockpit—and the human moments behind high-stakes performance. Through candid stories, humor, and practical tools, she shows leaders how to manage fear, build trust, and help their teams perform through uncertainty and change.

Audience Takeaways
In this keynote you will learn how to:

  • Make sound calls with incomplete information, using a pilot's method: focus on the next right action. 

  • Manage fear in themselves and their teams, so it sharpens performance and doesn't spread. 

  • Help their teams make faster, smarter decisions by getting everyone aligned before the pressure hits. 

  • Lead through nonstop change, including AI, without wearing out their best people. 

  • Invite candor, so problems surface early, while they're still fixable. 

  • Run a fast, blame-free debrief that turns setbacks into lessons the whole team uses. 

WHEN THE HORIZON DISAPPEARS.
Leading Through Fear and Uncertainty.

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Keynote or Workshop

Naval aviators must maintain physical fitness but did you know that mental fitness can be measured and improved? Your Positive Intelligence Quotient, or "PQ," measures the relative strength of your positive versus negative mental muscles. PQ is the measure of your mental fitness. Loree will demonstrate how you can boost your PQ significantly with easy practice. This breakthrough presentation (also offered as a workshop) will teach your audience to improve their performance and increase their happiness by increasing gray matter in the PQ Brain region, home to your Sage (positive mental muscles), and decreasing gray matter in the Survivor Brain region, home to your Saboteurs (negative mental muscles).

Audience Takeaways
In this keynote you will learn:

  • Why we have inner critics who hold us back

  • How one simple, 10-second exercise can change your life for the better

  • How we can reduce the judgments that increase negativity in our lives and instead build new mental muscles to increase the positive emotions

MENTAL FITNESS: Improve Performance and Increase Fulfillment

  • The way in which you seamlessly connected your military and professional work, the struggles and ability to overcome, to what our GM’s face on a daily basis was incredible. The team left feeling energized and more ready than ever to take responsibility as a leader of their individual units to drive performance! I appreciate the time you took to really pull through Marriott core values and synergize that to SOARing!

    Lindsy Wnorowski
    Regional Senior Director, Operations & Owner Services
    Marriott International

  • "Loree was our keynote speaker at Lithium's annual LiNC conference, with an audience of approximately one thousand attendees. Her enthusiasm and expertise in online communities captivated our audience and motivated them with the lessons she shared. If you're looking for a speaker with humor, warmth, and compelling stories who can inspire an audience, hire Loree!"

    Beverly Dunn

    Global Head of Customer Success, Ivalua

  • “Ms. Draude was the featured speaker for NPower‘s graduation at Splunk in San Jose, CA. Her thoughtful tales and sage advice amplified the warmth of the occasion leaving us uplifted and inspired. Couldn’t recommend Loree enough for engagements where deep, direct discourse is in high demand.”

    Sean Miner
    NPower Board and Senior Director, UX & Product Design, Quin Street

  • “Loree is an exceptional professional. Bright, team-oriented, diligent and a joy to work with. I recommend Loree unreservedly and would welcome the opportunity to work with her again.”

    Scotty Perkins

    EVP Head of Cloud, ACI Worldwide

  • “Healthcare workers are feeling the strain of the pandemic and staffing shortages. Loree’s presentation gave us tools to help manage and improve our mental well-being.”

    Lynne Drawdy
    Executive Director
    Central Florida Disaster Medical Coalition

  • "[Loree's talk] was a breath of fresh air and a new perspective on leadership!"

    Donna G.

    General Manager, Marriott International