Damian D. Pitts

Damian D. Pitts (January 21, 1969) also known as Skipper Pitts, is a former U.S. Marine turned business owner. Skipper is the founder and CEO at FlexRight Solutions, a consulting and technology integration company for business, government, and law enforcement agencies. He focuses on training and consulting in business executive education.

He previously served as the practice chair of organizational development and design at N2Growth, a global leadership development consultancy serving Board and C-level executives and other senior leaders by helping them create a culture of leadership. Pitts is the author of the Crisis Leadership and Performance Driven Execution framework that is used by leaders to avoid risk while leading out from crises before they occur.

He is also an instructor of executive education at Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Early life and military service Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts, was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he played little league football in the Police Athletic League and on throughout high school.

He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and left the day of his high school graduation for Bootcamp at Parris Island, SC. Pitts. He became a U.S. Marine Corps Officer and served on six battlefields including a tour in special operations.

After he retired from the marine corps, Pitts obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina and a Ph.D. from Wake Forest College in Organizational Behavior Studies.

Career In 2004 Pitts formed The Bison Group to use military-style executive education and consulting. Pitts consulted with business executives at Fortune 500 companies across the United States and Canada.

He is the author of eight books, more than 50 journals and publications and is a featured writer on Leadership topics at Fast Company and Blogger (the Leadership Bar and N2Growth).

In 2013 Pitts founded the Leadership Bar initiative, a thought leadership training and professional development endeavor.

In 2009 Pitts and his wife started a small business known as Success Natural Cosmetics, Inc., that manufactures bath and body care products and all natural candles.

2014 · Pitts developed the game Scandalytes a crisis leadership game for the consumer markets based on the TV drama "Scandal". He also added a business game called Moment of Truth (available at www.n2growth.com) that teaches crisis leadership tactics and strategies for leaders and organizations to avoid risk and lead out from crises before they happen.

He later became Chair of the Organizational Development Practice and is a member of the N2Growth Team with Brian Layer CEO, Brigadier General, (retired), John Baldoni, Mike Myatt, John Childress, Patricia H. Lenkov, Joel Garfinkle, Jitendra Singh, and Grant Wattie.

Pitts was appointed as the military advisor for the Screen Gems Studios film Stateside and was responsible for training the cast including Val Kilmer and Johnathan Tucker, where he was also asked to play Kilmer’s on‐screen drill instructor.

Viewpoints Pitts believes that process transformation is the pre‐requisite to being not just great, but inspiring extraordinary growth to experiencing new possibilities through change.