MEET RON

Ron Wilder serves as a strategic advisor, coach, and teacher to business leaders worldwide. Ron works with CEOs, business owners, executives, entrepreneurs, and experts – in companies ranging in size from one-person start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations.

In 2003, Ron founded Aligned Action, a strategy-focused executive coaching and advisory firm. In Ron’s work with clients, he assists leaders in creating big opportunities, taking the seeds of a vision and crafting a strategy to realize it, and aligning the organization to accelerate sales growth and profitability.  Ron’s work is typically behind-the-scenes, such that these results occur through the leader who is rapidly developing into a much more effective and powerful leader in the process.

Ron’s career began in Silicon Valley, where he worked with R.B. Webber & Company, a boutique strategy consultancy and venture capital firm. He held sales, marketing, and corporate development roles for two venture-backed start-ups.

Ron holds a B.S. in Physics from Emory University and a M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserve and deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.

Ron enjoys playing classical piano and is an active practitioner and student of the martial arts. He lives outside of Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and two daughters.

Ron writes extensively on business and leadership at his blog.