Sam Walker

Leadership columnist The Wall Street Journal. Founding editor of WSJ Sports . Author of "The Captain Class.

Sam Walker is an author, keynote speaker, and strategist who helps organizations strengthen their leadership selection and development practices, build stronger cultures, and create more cohesive and enduringly successful teams.

He has worked with a Super Bowl-winning NFL franchise, several high-achieving national, Olympic and NCAA-champion sports teams, a national law enforcement agency, elite U.S. military special forces units, one of the world’s largest money managers, one of the world’s leading surgical hospitals, one of the world’s largest media companies and the commanding officers of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.

Sam uses a rigorous, proprietary, data-driven assessment process to help existing teams make structural and cultural improvements and to help individual leaders refine their approaches and maximize their natural leadership strengths.