Dr. Anthony Randall
President and Founder, Vanguard XXI. Executive coach, keynote speaker, and award winning author.
Dr. Anthony Randall is the President and Founder of Vanguard XXI, a leadership development and executive coaching firm that transforms leaders, forges excellence, and builds winning cultures. A 1996 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, he brings more than 28 years of high performance leadership experience and has taught, trained, and coached more than 17,000 professionals across the U.S. Army, Joint Special Operations, the FBI, Major League Baseball, NCAA Division I athletics, and Fortune 100 and 500 companies in defense, healthcare, IT, manufacturing, and logistics.
Who is Dr. Anthony Randall?
Anthony Randall served as a Combat Arms Officer, Army Ranger, Army Chaplain, and ethics instructor across six combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. His ministry career includes 15 years as a U.S. Army Chaplain in both conventional and Joint Special Operations units, 4 years as a Law Enforcement Chaplain, and 8 years as a Chaplain for the Pittsburgh Pirates, alongside 18 years as a senior and executive pastor. He founded Vanguard XXI and built it into a seven figure company in less than three years.
What are Dr. Anthony Randall's credentials?
He holds a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Master of Theology from Emory University, and a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary. He holds seven coaching certifications and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed through the International Coaching Federation, with three leadership coaching courses credentialed by the ICF. He is a U.S. Army Simons Center Fellow and a recipient of the Order of St. Maurice (Legionnaire) and the Order of St. Michael Airborne (Guardian).
What does Dr. Anthony Randall speak about?
He speaks on leadership character, civility and ethics in the public square, trust, emotional intelligence, culture, and performance under pressure. He brings 25 years of professional speaking experience, trained through Heroic Public Speaking, and appears regularly on national leadership and business podcasts, at executive leadership conferences, and on industry panels. His keynotes join academic theory to real world experience, blending battlefield credibility with boardroom relevance.
What has Dr. Anthony Randall written?
He is the author of Practicing Excellence: Restoring Civility, Faith, and Trusted Leadership to the Public Square , an international award winning bestseller and winner of the International Impact Book Award for Social Change, and Practice Makes Permanent . He also publishes leadership writing on Substack.
What results has his work produced?
He developed the character development program at the Maneuver Center of Excellence that reduced Drill Instructor attrition from 12 percent to 3 percent across more than 500 noncommissioned officers. Vanguard XXI has served more than 20 Fortune 100 and 500 companies alongside small businesses, professional and college sports teams, law enforcement agencies, and universities.
How do you work with Dr. Anthony Randall?
He works with organizations through executive coaching, the Vanguard Transformational Leadership Course, ICF accredited coach training and mentor coaching, and keynote speaking engagements. Keynote inquiries run through Anthony Randall Speaks.
Outside the work
Anthony is a lifelong martial artist with more than 30 years of training. He serves in the Boy Scouts and Rotary and sits on boards for Fellowship of Christian Athletes Georgia Wrestling and Skull Games, a counter human trafficking organization. He has traveled to more than 40 countries. He and his wife have been married 28 years and have three children.