Rebecca Halstead

Brigadier General (Retired, U.S. Army) Halstead is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Steadfast Leadership, LLC, a private leader development training and consultant company. In that role, she has worked with hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, speaking on leadership, consulting and coaching. She has been a consultant since 2011 on leadership and logistics for Standard Process, a family-owned company that manufactures whole food-based nutritional supplements. From 2009 to 2010, General Halstead served as a Commissioner for the Presidential Commission on Military Leadership Diversity. Prior to establishing Steadfast Leadership, she served in the United States Army for 27 years and was a 1981 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. From 1981 to 2008, General Halstead was a multifunctional logistician, and served in a variety of staff and command positions, nationally and internationally, as part of Joint and Coalition organizations.

Brigadier General Halstead culminated her career as the senior commanding general in charge of logistics in Iraq from 2005 to 2006 in support of 250K personnel; followed by commanding the army's Ordnance Center and Schools, where she was responsible for the academic training and leader development for all enlisted and commissioned officers with vehicle and weapons maintenance, munitions and explosive ordnance skillsets.