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David L. Sears

David Sears is a New Jersey-based author, speaker and business consultant.

David's early career included service as a United States Navy officer with extensive sea duty  aboard destroyer Gearing (DD-710) and a tour of duty as an advisor to the Vietnamese Navy during the Vietnam conflict. David's Navy service and sea-going experience brings unique authenticity, perspective and passion to his books and his presentations to veteran, school, civic and business groups.

At War with the Wind,  to be published by Kensington Books in September 2008, details the U.S. Navy's unprecedented air-sea duels with Japanese kamikaze attackers. Based on extensive research and personal interviews with hundreds of sailors, airmen and marines, At War with the Wind combines fast-paced narrative interwoven with the real life exploits of young men who withstood the savagery of Japan's last-ditch 'Divine Wind' campaigns. At War With the Wind has been chosen as a main selection of the Military History Book Club and as a featured alternate selection for the History Book Club. Kirkus Reviews has enthusiastic praise for At War with the Wind:

  • "Former naval officer Sears writes affectingly of the terror the “divine wind” campaign wrought on American sailors."

  • "Sears does a particularly good job of bringing in the various voices of the fast-dwindling corps of American survivors of hellish engagements at Leyte and Okinawa, among other places." 

  • "Of considerable interest to students of the Pacific War."

David's earlier book  The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices of Leyte Gulf chronicles the exploits of 60 sailors and aviators in the last and most decisive sea battle of World War II.

David's business consulting expertise encompasses executive and professional staffing, compensation and incentives, organizational change consulting, executive coaching and human resources process engineering. His book Successful Talent Strategies has been published by AMACOM.

David has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Industrial Relations from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Presentation & discussion topics:

  • The Last Epic Naval Battle: Leadership Lessons from History's Last and Biggest Sea Battle

  • At War with the Wind:  The Fight to Live/The Fight to Die

  • Such Men as These: The Heroes and Exploits that Inspired James A. Micheners 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri'

Recent presentation & discussion audiences and events include:

  • Northern New Jersey Chapter of the Navy League

  • New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the U.S.

  • National World War II Museum, New Orleans

  • Morris Plains Rotary Club

  • History Channel:  'Kamikaze': Episode of Dogfights Series

  • Washington D.C. Commandery of the Naval Order of the U.S.

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