Paco Valencia

Paco Valencia is a retired United States Navy Senior Chief with more than 30 years of military, government, and private sector experience. He has used his behavioral science theory and practices training, education, and work experience to provide custom designed consulting services to over 15 federal and state government agencies, more than 30 military installations, and private sector organizations to include the unions associated with these government, federal, and private agencies and organizations. Paco has presented performance improvement principles and leadership development training curricula to over 10,000 diverse military and civilian personnel. While on Active Duty in the USN, he traveled to Naval Bases worldwide to consult Commanding Officers and their Board of Directors, to facilitate strategic planning, performance improvement workshops and seminars, and to present training sessions to all levels of the command. Additionally, he was one of the lead consultants during the merger of the two largest Navy and Army hospitals in the National Capital Region. He worked closely with Admirals and Generals and was responsible for managing transformational change throughout the organization. He successfully led activities and interventions like culture and readiness surveys, performance assessments, Executive Coaching, stakeholder analysis, focus group facilitation, and communication strategies of merger activities. Additionally, Paco is adjunct faculty at Georgetown University (Diversity Equity and Inclusion Program). He holds an Organizational Development Masters Degree from American University, a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Saint Leo University, is a Certified Executive Coach, and is certified in multiple psychological assessments.