I gotta say James crushed it! He hit it out of the park! His metaphors are so timely and he was amazing! If you can get him to speak on your stage and to your audience, you are going to be thrilled!
WHAT IS STRATEGIC NAVIGATION™?
A methodology for your executive and leadership teams
to chart a bold vision and inspire a new level of accountability,
trust, and peak performance within your organization.
Drawing from over 35+ years as an executive and sea captain, James specializes in moving leaders from:
✔ Reactive management to proactive leadership
✔ Feeling overwhelmed to strategically focused
✔ Limited thinking to expansive possibility
James Evanow is the founder of Strategic Navigation™, a transformative framework that helps leaders course-correct with clarity, resilience, and trust in something greater. At the heart of this journey lies The 2 Degree Principle, a keynote experience that empowers individuals to navigate both professional and personal storms with presence and purpose. Read more about James…
Strategic Navigation™ Guides Executives and Leaders to Mastery in Three Areas:
SERVANT LEADERSHIP
Lead from the helm—not above, but among.
Strategic Navigation™ trains leaders to serve with purpose, modeling integrity, empathy, and courage in daily interactions. Servant Leadership isn’t about control—it’s about elevating others. When leaders invest in their people, they build trust, deepen engagement, and foster a culture of mutual respect and collaboration.
Participants will explore emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and the ability to lead with humility and vision—creating a ripple effect that drives both personal and organizational transformation.
EMPOWERMENT
Challenge potential, don’t just manage performance.
Unlock the potential that lies just beyond the horizon.
Strategic Navigation™ teaches leaders to recognize and call forth greatness in their team—challenging individuals to rise beyond their current performance. Through direct, honest feedback, meaningful mentorship, and opportunities for growth, leaders learn to create a culture where people feel trusted, capable, and inspired to lead themselves.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Ownership is the compass of great leadership.
Strategic Navigation™ helps leaders build a culture where accountability is not enforced—but embraced. It starts with personal responsibility and the courage to be honest—with oneself and others. When ego takes a back seat, true growth begins. Leaders learn how to challenge constructively, communicate why goals matter, remove barriers to performance, and model integrity in every interaction. Accountability isn’t about blame—it’s about trust, clarity, and creating a team that takes pride in ownership.
SERVICES
KEYNOTES
The 2 Degree Principle
It’s never just one big decision that defines our destiny. It’s the small, nearly invisible choices—just a degree or two off course—that shape everything.
In this moving and transformational keynote, James takes audiences into the heart of the 2 Degree Principle™, a call to wake up from autopilot, reclaim the helm, and make intentional course corrections in both business and life. It’s a reminder that small shifts in direction—when done with purpose—can lead to massive transformation. This keynote is about recognizing that transformation doesn’t always require a complete overhaul—sometimes, it just takes two degrees. Read more…
Strategic Navigation™
You can’t always control the storm… but you can absolutely control how you navigate through it.
As a high-liner fisherman turned businessman, trainer, executive coach, and keynote speaker, James Evanow knows what it means to face pressure—and lead his team through it. Through vivid storytelling and deep emotional insight, James delivers a rallying cry for a new kind of leadership—one anchored in purpose, grounded in faith, and powered by connection with your team. Read more …
WORKSHOPS
This immersive workshop guides leaders in charting a clear course forward—for themselves and their teams—through intentional self-leadership, grounded emotional intelligence, and a quiet inner strength built through resilience.
Participants will engage in course-charting exercises that blend practical leadership tools with deeper personal reflection. They’ll develop the emotional intelligence and personal power needed to lead with empathy, navigate uncertainty, and inspire accountability from a place of purpose and presence.
Rooted in the belief that resilience is fortified through faith—faith in oneself, in one’s mission, and in something greater—this experience invites leaders to go beyond performance and into purposeful transformation.
Core Message:
Leaders can transform their teams by charting a clear course, leading with empathy, and maintaining high standards of accountability, all while staying grounded in something deeper.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Strategic Navigation™
This immersive leadership training equips participants to navigate with clarity, courage, and connection—no matter what waters they’re facing. Drawing from James Evanow’s Strategic Navigation™ framework, the workshop blends emotional intelligence, self-leadership, and accountability with an experiential experience for all in attendance.
Through guided reflection, course-charting exercises, and high-impact discussions, leaders will learn how to stay steady in the storm, build trust with their crew, and realign around a shared mission. Whether in a one-day intensive or a two-day deep dive, this training helps leaders sharpen their internal compass and step into their role with greater presence, empathy, and purpose.
Core Message:
Great leadership begins within—and those who learn to navigate themselves with clarity can lead others through anything.
SHOP
In his book “Wisdom From the Sea,” James Evanow shares six life and death stories and how he learned valuable lessons that would help him to teach thousands the lessons of how to master change, the importance of teamwork in adverse situations, emotional intelligence, leadership, and his favorite chapter, “The Pirate Within.” In this chapter, he describes how our Pirate will make decisions that can keep us from realizing our full potential and create awareness on how to hold this part of us at bay. Set your sails and take a ride on an adventurous journey into the power of the sea.
