Nate Sassaman

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.)

Helping people become better leaders and live their best lives

Nate Sassaman is a 1985 West Point graduate whose leadership skills have been demonstrated from the battlefield to the boardroom. LTC (R) Sassaman led over 1,000 soldiers as a Combined Arms Infantry Battalion Commander in the heart of the Sunni Triangle from 2003-2004. Using the leadership lessons taught at West Point and the hard lessons on the Iraqi battlefield, Nate takes his amazing leadership experiences and develops today’s leaders and aspiring leaders at some of the largest companies and government agencies in the United States.

A West Point All-American QB, Army Airborne Ranger, decorated combat veteran, bestselling author, and seasoned leader, Nate has developed and coached thousands of executives, managers, front-line supervisors, teachers, coaches, and aspiring leaders nation-wide in the past decade. His small team workshops focused on your leadership journey, overall team dynamics, and the leader-coach concept helps knit groups into high performing teams. Nate’s high-energy approach, challenging facilitator methods, and focused determination on developing his student leaders and their teams makes for the best leadership training available. His St. Martin’s Press published book, Warrior King, has sold over a 100,000 copies and is a regional best-seller.

Nate delivers leadership workshops, executive coaching, and keynote addresses to our nation’s largest companies (Home Depot, State Farm, Northwestern Mutual) and numerous public agencies (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange Counties, CA). His combat leadership experiences were featured in the BBC’s 2020 award-winning “Once Upon a Time in Iraq” documentary.