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“Military Transition - Mental Health - Leadership Development - MAX FAB”
Dave Nordel is a retired United States Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant with over 30 years of service. He is a registered nurse who specialized in Emergency Medicine and an emergency manager who served as a medic in areas of operations including Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South America, Iraq, Korea, Japan, and Hungary. He has a vast knowledge of leading a variety of different teams ranging in size.
Dave grew up in rural Northern California in a dairy farming community and experienced all that brings to a young man raised in the late '60s and '70s. Dave left home at 19 to join the Air Force and ascended through the enlisted ranks to culminate as the senior enlisted leader for all nuclear missile forces in the United States.
He has lead city government activities and large organizations as an emergency manager for multiple communities through Covid-19 and other disaster situations. He is a mentor and speaks to young leaders to aid their development and future successes.
He is passionate about veteran transition and offers authentic perspectives on PTSD, moral injury, and other mental health challenges.
He continues to give back the gifts he has collected along the way. Dave has also written a #1 best-selling book Giving Back! Life and Leadership from the Farm to the Combat Zone and Beyond that dives into the journey of how to become a leader through his years of learned experience.
