U.S. Navy SEAL Teams veteran Scott Daly learned at a young age that resiliency made more of an impact than raw talent when it came to overcoming life’s obstacles and finding success.
Daly is one of the speakers at a Feb. 2 event hosted by the Baton Rouge Business Report. During the Elevate Your Leadership & Your Team event, he will provide insights on leadership and being elite in life and will be joined by Focus 3 founder and CEO Tim Knight. Get tickets for the Feb. 2 event here.
Daly says that one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today is leading and teaming with remote employees. A close second, he notes, is finding and retaining talent.
His essential message to leaders? “High performance isn’t magic; it’s mechanics. You have to be willing to do the work if you want to be successful.”
Daly’s message has emerged from his own encounters with adversity. In high school, he suffered a neck injury while wrestling that left him briefly paralyzed. He went on to recover completely, graduate from college at the Ohio State University and work as a highly successful district sales manager with a Fortune 500 company.
After 9-11, he says he felt a calling to do something with his life that would have the maximum impact, so he pursued a career in the military—specifically with the Navy SEALs. Originally rejected because of his previous neck injury, Daly says he never stopped reaching out to the Navy and ultimately found a Navy physician who would review his medical records and sign off on paperwork so Daly could enlist.
Daly signed up for BUD/S, or Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL School, which is the first step on the path to becoming a United States Navy SEAL. He felt confident that he could meet the requirements for running, sit-ups, push-ups and pull-ups, but Daly jokes that growing up as a farm kid in Ohio, he had never learned to swim.
He became determined to teach himself, and after swimming every day for three months, he was able to complete the necessary 500 meters in the required time to move on in his training—although he would learn that day that he would eventually have to swim 5.5 nautical miles under grueling conditions at the end of the third training phase.
On the day of the 500 meters, nearly 70 men showed up to swim in a chilly 68-degree pool. Daly was one of only six to finish and move on to the SEALs second phase.
“That’s it. Everybody else quit,” Daly says. “It started to occur to me that it’s not about talent. It’s about who’s mentally tough. Who’s able to do the hard stuff when it gets uncomfortable? … I wasn’t the strongest. I was just resilient. I wouldn’t quit.”
Daly is a veteran of the U.S. Navy SEAL Teams, and since 2002 he has served as an operator, a Chief Petty Officer, and a Master Training Specialist. In addition to operating on active SEAL teams, Daly spent years training junior officers and enlisted SEALs on how to perform at elite levels physically, emotionally and tactically in the world’s most demanding environments.
He is now director of training for Focus 3, an advisory firm that helps organizations maximize performance through discipline-driven leadership, culture, and behavior.
“Elevate Your Leadership and Your Team” will feature Daly’s “The Journey to Elite,” and Kight’s “Relentless Leadership” messages. Proceeds from the event will benefit Empower 225.
Sponsors for the event are Mercedes-Benz of Baton Rouge, Shell, Investar Bank, Acadian Home Theater & Automation and GMFS Mortgage.
Get tickets for the Feb. 2 event here.
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