Clay Runzi

Background

About Clay Runzi

I am a multi-disciplined national security practitioner guided by the deep-rooted attributes of integrity, leadership, education, and ample, hard-earned experience. I have garnered an extensive background of work-related accomplishments in operations, logistics, training, human resources/personnel management, contract management, Department of Defense program/fiscal budgeting and execution, operational and strategic planning, & policy development, implementation, compliance. I ascribe to the notion of the “brilliance in the basics”. The vast majority of organization/mission success can be accomplished through ensuring the right questions are being asked, the appropriate resources are being matched to the unique requirements of the operational/business environment, and communication flows freely/regularly- unimpeded by personality or structural construct. I’m a devout advocate of servant leadership. After having encountered literally dozens of leadership definitions, my favorite remains the one espoused by my first Commandant of the Marine Corps, Alfred M. Gray Jr- “Leadership is getting things done through people”. I take pride in work accomplishments, but have found personal accolades to be fleeting in satisfaction unless my fellow colleagues have been/are duly recognized right along-side me. I take delight in seeing those I’ve had the pleasure to work with/for me succeed and advance in their careers and personal lives.