Veteran Spotlight: Walter Tieck

1 - Biography including a history of your service for our country:

I enlisted in the Air Force in April 1968 as a Dental Laboratory Technician. My first assignment was at McChord AFB in Tacoma Washington. While there I met my wife and in 1972 we relocated to Lakenheath RAF Base in the UK. Following that, we moved to Luke AFB in Phoenix, Holloman AFB in Alamogordo NM, MacDill AFB, FL, Langley AFB VA, Wiesbaden Medical Center, Wiesbaden Germany, Eglin AFB FL, and finally HQ USAF as the Career Field Manager in the Air Force Surgeon Generals Office, Bolling AFB, MD. It took me 30 years to visit all these facilities and enjoyed everyone one of them.

2 - How has your military service informed you in your work with clients?

The work I do today was influenced by each of those assignments as a trainer, coach, mentor, motivator, and most importantly leader. Learning to work with people, meeting them where they are, and devising a plan to achieve personal, professional, and organizational goals. Service before self.

3 - What made you decide to be a coach? 

I started as an adjunct consultant with Right Management as a “bridge” job. Found a niche where I could leverage my experiences from the military with the business community. It began with networking and took off from there.

4 - What is your area of interest?

I enjoy the outdoors, building things, and family. As a coach, I enjoy working with people who are trying to understand what they want to do when they “grow up”.

5- What is that one unique thing we would be surprised to know about you?

Aside from making false teeth and giving people a “million-dollar” smile early in my professional career, my new “restarted” hobby is model railroading

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