At Navy Bob, we partner with you to unlock the transformative power of

Leading with Love.

Leaders aspire to achieve high performance, cultivate strong cultures, create a positive impact, and engage in meaningful work. However, challenges such as market disruptions, rapid workforce changes, and uninformed leadership practices can make leaders vulnerable to poor performance, negative cultures, diminished well-being, and burnout.

Beyond the Sea promotes and teaches Leading with Love, drawing from diverse experiences and offering practical tools for leaders to transform themselves, overcome challenges, build meaningful relationships, and elevate organizational performance.

The three core ideas from Leading with Love include:

Leading with Love: Adopting a leadership approach that prioritizes empathy, understanding, and compassion not only fosters well-being but also creates a positive work environment.

Measurable Impact: Using the research-based Leader Member Exchange assessment, you can see firsthand how Leading with Love significantly boosts positive cultures and outcomes. This method is backed by over 50 years of real-world evidence, showing improvements in job turnover, burnout, and productivity.

Realize True Success: Embracing Leading with Love transcends the pursuit of material gains or power. It’s about achieving a fulfilling life through serving and assisting others, ultimately embodying what it truly means to lead a ‘good life.’

Leading with Love creates legendary culture, empowers exceptional leaders, elevates outcomes and builds fulfilled lives. Ready to elevate your organization’s performance and well-being?

We can help you get there.

The Books

Beyond the Sea

Leading with Love from the Nuclear Navy to the White House and Healthcare.

By: Robert “Navy Bob” Roncska

Available Now.

“This is a book everyone should read. A true behind-the-scenes story about leadership, humility, and duty in the navy and in life. Robert ‘Navy Bob’ Roncska is a real-life American hero and role model.”

- Daniel Silva

New York Times Best Selling Author

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High Reliability Healthcare

Do you want better clinical outcomes, fewer errors, increased productivity, and highly reliable patient care? High Reliability Healthcare offers some actionable tips from the safest and most reliable industry ever: the Nuclear Navy. For over seventy-five years, the Nuclear Navy has operated highly enriched nuclear reactors with sailors in their twenties at the helm and has never experienced an accident. As Forbes reported, “The [US] Nuclear Navy has the best safety record of any industry.”
Jeffrey Kuhlman, MD, MPH, a retired Navy physician and physician to the president, and Robert Roncska, DBA, a retired Navy captain in the Nuclear Navy who carried the nuclear codes (AKA the football) for President George W. Bush, understand this better than anyone. After excelling as leaders in the military, they recognized that the organizational leadership and team-building skills they had learned in the US Nuclear Navy could be applied to healthcare—an industry in dire need of an upgrade. This ingenious pair met at the White House while working with President Bush as his emergency action team and later worked together at AdventHealth.
With hundreds of thousands of patients becoming permanently disabled or dying each year due to medical errors, it’s clear that the old approach to healthcare safety isn’t working. Kuhlman and Roncska propose applying the wisdom of an unlikely mentor—the US Nuclear Navy—to patient care. Don’t miss a chance to uncover what the best in their fields have seen and learned over the duration of their careers.

Applying the Secrets of the Nuclear Navy to Save Patient Lives

Signed copies available for preorder. 

By - Robert “Navy Bob” Roncska DBA and Jeffrey “Leno” Kuhlman MD, MPH

Why Invest in Unlocking the Transformative Power of Leading with Love?

Because when you lead with love you drive superior outcomes.

Leading with Love Cultivates Purpose and Trust.

Leaders who exhibit traits of love, such as forgiveness, humility, and genuine concern (agape), cultivate trust within their teams, as highlighted by research.

High-trust Organizations Yield Significant Benefits.

High-trust organizations yield significant benefits. 74% reduced stress, 106% increased energy, 50% higher productivity, 76% greater engagement, and 40% decreased burnout.

A High Sense of Purpose Cultivates Loyalty.

For every one thousand employees who find their work highly meaningful, companies can save an average of $5.94M in annual turnover costs.

What People are Saying about

Beyond the Sea

Dr. Bob Roncska’s book “Beyond the Sea, Leading with Love” is an enthralling study of practical leadership. I have read countless leadership books, most of which are formulaic, mechanistic, or simply experiential. This is a significant paradigm shift, rightly premised on the importance of “Love First”. If your heart is right, inspirational leadership and organizational success will follow. Although Navy Bob credits many leaders for their influence on his leadership style, I believe the attributes he highlights in this book have been a deep rooted part of his DNA his entire life. This book is a must read for those who are serious about improving their leadership skills.

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Admiral Bruce Grooms

Dr. Bob Roncska’s book “Beyond the Sea, Leading with Love” is an enthralling study of practical leadership. I have read countless leadership books, most of which are formulaic, mechanistic, or simply experiential. This is a significant paradigm shift, rightly premised on the importance of “Love First”. If your heart is right, inspirational leadership and organizational success will follow. Although Navy Bob credits many leaders for their influence on his leadership style, I believe the attributes he highlights in this book have been a deep rooted part of his DNA his entire life. This book is a must read for those who are serious about improving their leadership skills.

Portrait of Anita McBride on Sunday, April 13, 2014.  Photo by Shealah Craighead

Anita McBride, Former COS to Mrs. Bush

About Robert “Navy Bob” Roncska

During my twenty-eight-year career in the Navy, I commanded a nuclear-powered submarine, led the largest submarine squadron in the U.S. fleet, and even carried the nuclear football for President George W. Bush, who affectionately named me “Navy Bob.” In this journey I learned invaluable lessons. Among them, the significance of sacrificial love stands out profoundly. Drawing from these experiences, I’ve come to understand that serving others is the ultimate pathway to prosperity for families, communities, organizations, and nations worldwide. My mission is to promote and teach leading with love to enable human transformation, foster positive cultures, and promote well-being globally.

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