Dr. Anthony Randall

Dr. Anthony Randall is renowned for captivating audiences with his enlightening, engaging, and empowering keynote presentations. Through his powerful storytelling, uplifting humor, insightful perspectives, and practical application, Anthony inspires individuals and teams to live a more excellent way.  

His process of practicing excellence empowers leaders to align passion, purpose, and precision successfully overcoming adversity, eliminating self-limiting beliefs, and excelling in their professional public square. His keynotes blend battlefield to boardroom-tested wisdom with academic insight, offering compelling strategies on ethics, character, coaching, leadership, and building high-character, high culture teams. 

Whether speaking to executives, educators, athletes, or public leaders, Dr. Randall delivers a message of civility, purpose, and transformational leadership resonating across disciplines in the public square. 

Dr. Randall’s transformational leadership is reshaping how we approach character, ethics, trust, and social impact. A retired Army Ranger and Special Operations Chaplain with six combat deployments, Dr. Randall’s 28 years of high-performance leadership experience includes training and coaching more than 17,000 professionals—including U.S. Army Special Operations, Major League Baseball, NCAA Division I athletics, and Fortune 100 and 500 companies. 

A West Point graduate and International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach, Dr. Randall is an ICF Course Proprietor and president of a 7-figure leadership coaching company, Vanguard XXI. His book, Practicing Excellence: Restoring Civility, Faith & Trusted Leadership in the Public Square, won the International Impact Book Award for Social Change, and is required reading in graduate programs at Emory and Regent University. 

A lifelong martial artist, he holds black belts in Japanese Jujitsu and Judo and a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Married for 27 years, he and Jeanine are the parents of a daughter at West Point, a son at Auburn University (USAF ROTC and Baseball), and a son at Columbus High School.