Stephen R. Woodall, Ph.D.
swoodall@academyleadership.com

Dr. Stephen R. Woodall has over forty years of executive and operational experience in strategic planning, vision development, long-range resource analysis, strategic forecasting, international operations and management, systems and operations analysis, systems engineering, warfare gaming and analysis, technology planning, and inspirational leadership under demanding conditions, including combat service in two wars. He was founding President and CEO of Strategic Synthesis, Ltd. (LLC) in 1997. Additionally, he is a highly respected senior Consultant in systems engineering and systems analysis for many major U.S. and foreign defense and consulting firms.

A 1967 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Dr. Woodall served as a naval officer from June 1967 until February 1994. His naval service included three sea commands, including the AEGIS Cruiser USS MOBILE BAY (CG 53), where he served as the four-carrier Battle Force ZULU Anti-Air Warfare Commander (AAWC) during the 1991 Gulf War in the Northern Arabian Gulf. He also commanded USS KING (DDG 41) and USS LUISENO (ATF 156). As a Captain, he served as the Director of Professional Development at the United States Naval Academy, responsible for all Midshipman professional and leadership training.

In addition to his consulting work, he is active as a member of the Executive Committee of the Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense (SLAAD) Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), on behalf of which he has served as Study Director on many influential Industry-Government study efforts, including most recently "Command and Control and Battle Management Implications for Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense (Maritime IAMD)."

Dr. Woodall holds a Ph.D. and M.A. degree in World Politics from the Catholic University of America, and M.S. degrees in both Operations Research and Applied Mathematics from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College, and has served as the Navy Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Woodall is the author of the book "Strategic Forecasting in Long-Range Military Force Planning," and numerous strategic plans, studies, analyses, monographs, journal articles and papers. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, since 1994.