Loree’s experience and expertise as a Navy combat jet pilot and team leader at Google and Meta inspires audiences to soar higher in their professional and personal lives.

Loree Draude was one of the first women to fly combat jets in the U.S. Navy. She deployed twice to the Persian Gulf and accumulated over 300 carrier landings. After completing her naval service, Loree earned her MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She spent 20 years in Silicon Valley, leading teams at startups and tech companies, including Google and Meta. Loree has supported hundreds of clients as a motivational speaker and an executive coach (CPCC, PCC and CPQC). She is currently a 2025 Fellow at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Author of the bestseller Soar Into Joy,
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She’s Just Another Navy Pilot

Loree’s Offerings

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Keynote or Workshop

In this keynote, Loree shares stories from her first deployment on the USS Abraham Lincoln and her 20-year career in tech, inspiring audiences to persevere through difficulties and find the silver linings in challenging times. She guides your audience through refining what matters most to them and how to optimize their personal and professional lives.

Audience Takeaways
In this keynote you will learn:

  • A simple framework from aviation that is useful for managing life’s challenges

  • Why being open to failure leads to success

  • How the four forces of flight apply to everyday life

  • Why normalizing setbacks and failures leads to stronger leaders and teams

  • How to embrace fear rather than fight it

SOAR: Overcome Fear and Reach New Heights

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Keynote or Workshop

Naval aviators must maintain physical fitness but did you know that mental fitness can be measured and improved? Your Positive Intelligence Quotient, or "PQ," measures the relative strength of your positive versus negative mental muscles. PQ is the measure of your mental fitness. Loree will demonstrate how you can boost your PQ significantly with easy practice. This breakthrough presentation (also offered as a workshop) will teach your audience to improve their performance and increase their happiness by increasing gray matter in the PQ Brain region, home to your Sage (positive mental muscles), and decreasing gray matter in the Survivor Brain region, home to your Saboteurs (negative mental muscles).

Audience Takeaways
In this keynote you will learn:

  • Why we have inner critics who hold us back

  • How one simple, 10-second exercise can change your life for the better

  • How we can reduce the judgments that increase negativity in our lives and instead build new mental muscles to increase the positive emotions

Mental Fitness: Improve Performance and Increase Fulfillment

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Play Your Bigger Game

Keynote or Workshop

Are you feeling stuck? Burned out? In this keynote, Loree delivers the Play Your Bigger Game framework, developed by fellow Co-Active Training Institute Coach, Rick Tamlyn. She shares her powerful story about her experience as one of only eighteen female combat pilots aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and how you can play a bigger game in your life.

Audience Takeaways
In this keynote you will learn:

  • How to have a more positive impact within your family, your work, your community or organization

  • What meaningful work means to you and how to create more of it in your life

  • How to take responsibility and direct your destiny

  • The way in which you seamlessly connected your military and professional work, the struggles and ability to overcome, to what our GM’s face on a daily basis was incredible. The team left feeling energized and more ready than ever to take responsibility as a leader of their individual units to drive performance! I appreciate the time you took to really pull through Marriott core values and synergize that to SOARing!

    Lindsy Wnorowski
    Regional Senior Director, Operations & Owner Services
    Marriott International

  • "Loree was our keynote speaker at Lithium's annual LiNC conference, with an audience of approximately one thousand attendees. Her enthusiasm and expertise in online communities captivated our audience and motivated them with the lessons she shared. If you're looking for a speaker with humor, warmth, and compelling stories who can inspire an audience, hire Loree!"

    Beverly Dunn

    Global Head of Customer Success, Ivalua

  • “Ms. Draude was the featured speaker for NPower‘s graduation at Splunk in San Jose, CA. Her thoughtful tales and sage advice amplified the warmth of the occasion leaving us uplifted and inspired. Couldn’t recommend Loree enough for engagements where deep, direct discourse is in high demand.”

    Sean Miner
    NPower Board and Senior Director, UX & Product Design, Quin Street

  • “Loree is an exceptional professional. Bright, team-oriented, diligent and a joy to work with. I recommend Loree unreservedly and would welcome the opportunity to work with her again.”

    Scotty Perkins

    EVP Head of Cloud, ACI Worldwide

  • “Healthcare workers are feeling the strain of the pandemic and staffing shortages. Loree’s presentation gave us tools to help manage and improve our mental well-being.”

    Lynne Drawdy
    Executive Director
    Central Florida Disaster Medical Coalition

  • "[Loree's talk] was a breath of fresh air and a new perspective on leadership!"

    Donna G.

    General Manager, Marriott International