John H. Clark III - John H. Clark III - Accept. Adapt. Achieve! ®

With over 30 years of experience in business management, community organizing, and naval service, John helps organizations achieve authentic work-life balance. He is also president emeritus of TeenBuilding USA, a nonprofit he founded that facilitates teen leadership and civic engagement.

John is a certified logistician and acquisition and contracts manager, with a master's degree in the same field from the Naval Postgraduate School. He leverages his extensive expertise in aligning people, processes, and projects to facilitate workplace education, cultural understanding, and organizational purpose. He is also the author of several books offering realistic solutions and positive perspectives to life's challenges, based on his trademarked phrase: Accept. Adapt. Achieve! ®

"My mission is to enrich, uplift, and empower people to set and achieve goals far beyond current mindsets."

Optimistic Realist
Leadership Development and Change-Management Consultant

John H. Clark III is an optimistic realist.

An innovative business manager, John is fascinated by leaders and organizations making the greatest impact within their organizational culture and in the real world — people who “get it.” Throughout his life as a military leader, corporate mentor, innovative content creator, and retired naval officer, John has discovered a wealth of insight into how we think, act, and communicate within our respective work/life environments. As a career naval officer, mentor, educator, and optimistic realist, he has devoted his life to sharing insights to assist in our quests to improve what we all do – work @ living and (often) live @ work!

An optimist with a penchant for writing about realistic solutions to the challenges of everyday life, John is the author of several books, including a leadership-development guide, The Ideal: Your Guide to An Ideal Life, a teen-focused guide, Getting Out: Expert Advice for Today’s Teens, and the Christian-based book, God’s Heartbeat: A Powerful Premise for Leading a Christian Life.

He delivers a unique and refreshing point of view to life's seemingly overwhelming situations.

Through books, blogs, and everyday conversation, John's message resonates with an empowering blend of ideals that enrich, uplift, and authorize people to set and achieve goals far beyond current mindsets. An engaged community advocate and authentic leader, his trademarked phrase is a winner: Accept. Adapt. Achieve! ®