Jerry W. Spruiel

Twenty-Six years training experience. Aviation Instructor and Leader; classroom instructor for technical systems; instructor pilot; organization effectiveness consultant and instructor for the Navy’s Leadership and Organization Effectiveness School. Management development training, and career development training.

Completed twenty years service as a Navy Pilot. Graduated from the Navy’s Aviation Schools Command Classroom Instructor Course and Flight Instructor Training Syllabus and was designated a Navy Flight Instructor. Instructor Pilot, Special Check Pilot, Instrument Check Pilot and Flight Leader leading a group of approximately 20 instructors and 50 students. Mission Commander for the Navy’s P_3 aircraft. Project Direction for all Navy F_14 and P_3 simulators with active contracts in excess of $95 million and $112 million respectively. Designated Weapon Systems Acquisition Manager (WSAM).

Graduated from the Navy’s Leadership and Organization Effectiveness School and was designated an Organization Effectiveness Specialist. Director of the Navy’s Organization Effectiveness Development Center and Curriculum Director of the Leadership and Organization Effectiveness School. Certified by McBer’s for their Behavioral Event Interview.

Organization Development Specialist for Lockheed Martin's Orlando headquarters. Conducted Management Development Workshops, coordinated leadership training and managed the strategic talent development pool for the five company group. Coordinator for a Joint Training Partnership Act project for Lockheed Martin and Valencia Community College sponsoring career development for dislocated Martin employees. Certified for the Myers Briggs Type Indicator by the Center For The Application Of Psychological Type (CAPT).

As Manager of the Career Transition Assistance Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Headquarters, conducted and managed career development counseling for NASA’s senior staff. Designed and managed job fairs.

Lead five Training Instructors and forty-six Line Instructors at LYNX, the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority in all aspects of bus operator technical training for over 500 operators. Graduated from Transportation Safety Institute’s Train-The-Trainer Program. Part of a management team that re-wrote the national federal bus operator training program.  Appointed Senior Associate Staff.  Certified Senior Aggression Management Trainer. 

EDUCATION

M.S. Pepperdine University, 1980; Human Resources Development

B.S. Livingston University, 1969; Business Administration

Certified Aggression Management Trainer