2024 Founder’s District Conference Keynote
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and the author of the 2021 release, “Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be”. Both his leadership talk, and his book are based on his 40+ years of leadership experience in combat, peacekeeping operations, disaster relief operations and in the board room. Oak highlights principles that will benefit today’s leaders and inspire the leaders of tomorrow, in any profession and at any level of leadership.
In his 23-year career in the Army Oak McCulloch held numerous leadership positions in the Infantry and Armor branches. His last position in the Army was a three-year tour as the Professor of Military Science at the University of South Alabama where he led the training and commissioning of Lieutenants and tripled the size of the program in his three-year tour.
Retired Lt. Col McCulloch retired from the Army in September 2009 with over 23 years of active service and joined the staff at the Bay Area Food Bank as the Associate Director during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his 15 years of working with Army ROTC he was involved in the commissioning of over 550 Lieutenants for the United States Army.
He received thirty-one military service awards including the Bronze Star, eight Meritorious Service Medals and the Humanitarian Service Medal.
Retired Lt. Col Oak McCulloch is married to the former Kelly Smyth of Wauconda, Illinois and they have two children, a granddaughter and two grandsons.
