Background

Ed Ruggero was born on November 26, 1956.

Education

Ed Ruggero attended Paul VI Catholic High School. In 1980 he graduated from West Point Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1987 Ruggero received a Master of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career

From 1980 to 1991 Ed Ruggero was an Infantry officer at the United States Army. After his service, Ed continued to share his insights about leadership, leading to his career as an author, public speaker, and trainer. Ed Ruggero’s client list includes the FBI, the New York City Police Department, Forbes, the SAS Institute, Hugo Boss USA, CitiFinancial, and Time, among many others. From 1987 to 1991 he worked as an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Ed is the author of eleven books, including Duty First: West Point and the Making of American Leaders, a study of leader development at the US Military Academy; and Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault Into Fortress Europe, July 1943, which became a one-hour docudrama on The History Channel. Ed is also the co-author of The Leader’s Compass, a fictional story of how one leader developed a personal leadership philosophy.

Ed is the founder and principal of The Gettysburg Leadership Experience, The Concord Leadership Experience, The Valley Forge Leadership Experience, and the Normandy Leadership Experience.

Achievements

• Ed Ruggero is best known as the author of Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943, and Duty First: A Year in the Life of West Point and the Making of American Leaders as well as an experienced keynote speaker on leadership development. His works received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Firefall

    (Isen and his men are tasked with what they believe to be ...)

    1994
  • Breaking Ranks

    (When a young second lieutenant apparently commits suicide...)

    1995
  • Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943

    (Follows the paratrooper invasion of Sicily in 1943 that s...)

    2003
  • The First Men In: US Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day

    (In the tradition of Steven Ambrose's D-Day and Band of Br...)

    2006
  • The Common Defense

    (In Mexico to instruct its army on counterterrorism techni...)

    1992
  • Blame the Dead

    (Ed Ruggero's Blame the Dead is the thrilling start of an ...)

    2020
  • Duty First: West Point and the Making of American Leaders

    (Duty First is a penetrating account of a year inside one ...)

    2001
  • Thirty-Eight North Yankee 1990
  • The Corporate Compass: Providing Focus and Alignment to Stay the Course 2005

Views

Ed Ruggero suggests three activities that should be an aspect of every writer’s life: Read, Write, and Persevere. In the interview, he said: "I doubt you can be a writer unless you’re a reader. But piling up books on your night table isn’t enough; you must be an active reader. If you like something, ask yourself why you liked it. Parse it and try to figure out why it worked so well... Practice. The more you do it the better you become. Try different styles and even genres. Blog posts, journalism, thank you notes - it’s all helpful."

Interests

• Writers

  Rick Atkinson

Connections

Ed Ruggero is married to Marcia Noa. They have two children: Colin, Dealyn.

Spouse:

Marcia Noa

Son:

Colin Ruggero

Son:

Dealyn Ruggero

References

• Contemporary Authors
  2010
• The Official Website of Ed Ruggero