Sam Walker

Sam Walker is a leadership and team-building consultant, columnist and keynote speaker. He works closely with professional, Olympic, and collegiate sports teams as well as elite military units, national law-enforcement agencies, global NGOs and businesses of many types and sizes. Walker is the author of The Captain Class (2018), a critically acclaimed profile of the leaders of the greatest team dynasties in sports history; and Fantasyland (2006), an account of his exhaustive attempt to win the world's toughest fantasy baseball competition. Walker spent two decades at The Wall Street Journal, where he served as chief sports columnist, global sports editor, deputy page one editor and leadership columnist. He attended the University of Michigan and lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.