#299: Building Leaders from the Inside Out with Tom Connally, USNA ‘83

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Tom Connally is the Founder and President of Connally Consulting, LLC, a leadership development firm that transforms managers into leaders through strategic assessment and coaching. Drawing on his extensive military leadership experience, he helps organizations build cultures of performance by aligning their mission, strategy, and organizational dynamics.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Tom evolved from 30 years of Marine Corps leadership through defense contracting to founding his company, Connally Consulting.
• How a heartfelt letter to his daughter about leadership was the catalyst to finding his true calling and writing a book.
• The profound realization that his corporate roles weren't aligned with his core mission of developing leaders, leading him to launch a consulting practice centered around helping managers become stronger leaders.
• Tom's systematic approach to leadership development, starting with helping clients identify their core values and creating alignment between their inner beliefs and outer actions.
• The critical connection between personal values and organizational performance.
• Tom's unique perspective on leadership coaching was shaped by commanding 22 organizations during his Marine Corps career, including insights learned from recruiting duty that became foundational to his coaching methodology.
• The evolution of Connally Consulting's service offerings into five distinct coaching programs.
• Tom's integration of business disciplines with his service-oriented mission, balancing pro bono work for nonprofits while building a sustainable coaching practice.
• His emphasis on written reflection and goal-setting as powerful tools for personal and professional development, demonstrated by his own practice of keeping written goals since 1989.

Connect with Tom

• LinkedIn
• Connally Consulting
• [e-mail]
• Facebook
• Instagram

Special thanks to Tom for joining me this week. Until next time!

-Scott Mackes, USNA ’01