Venturist

John Warden

founder & president

John A. Warden III is an executive, strategist, planner, author, and motivational speaker whose work has had a worldwide impact in business, in the military, in government, and in education. Vietnam combat pilot, author whose books include The Air Campaign and Winning in FastTime, Air Force Fighter Wing Commander, credited by Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell as the architect of the Desert Storm Air Campaign, Special Assistant to the Vice President of the United States, Commandant of the Air Force’s Command and Staff College, successful business founder – he has capitalized on his studies and experience to create the Prometheus Process, a unique approach to strategy and success applicable wherever competition exists.

Warden’s book, Winning in FastTime, (co-author Leland Russell), introduces the Prometheus strategic process and is available through selected bookstores and on-line booksellers. 

He has written numerous articles on the future, new strategy (business and military), aerospace power, acquisition reform, and campaign planning. The Desert Storm Air Campaign was based on his revolutionary concept of “the enemy as system” in which military forces are considered parts of a much larger whole. He wrote the seminal work on modern airpower theory, The Air Campaign: Planning For Combat, which has been translated into at least seven languages. 

He has appeared on FOX, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the BBC, NPR, numerous radio talk shows around the country and is frequently featured or cited in newspapers and magazines with global circulation such as Forbes, Time, the Economist, USA Today, and Newsweek.

John Warden’s Biography