Dr. Ron Spradling

Ron Spradling is a retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant, author, leadership theorist, and speaker whose work focuses on leadership, influence, and the people who shape us along the way.

During his twenty-year Air Force career, Ron served as an aircraft structural maintainer, military technical school master instructor, Assistant First Sergeant, and leader of teams around the world. After retiring from military service, he built and led business teams, including a company he started from the ground up and later sold. He went on to earn multiple graduate degrees and a Doctorate in Business Administration.

Those experiences became the foundation for Spradling’s Leadership Continuum Theory, which explores how leadership and influence move in every direction, regardless of rank, title, or position. His books, including People Move and I’m Not Special, combine leadership theory with real-world experiences and stories from more than three decades of leading, learning from, and working alongside others.

Ron believes leadership is not defined by how many people follow you, but by the impact you have on the people around you and what they eventually become.

He lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with his wife, Patty, and continues to write about leadership, life, and the lessons hidden inside the stories we collect along the way.