Blue Water Advisors

Team.... Please join me in welcoming aboard our newest Blue Water Advisors members as we prepare to host them all for the day on Wednesday the 30th of October here in downtown Washington D.C.! No doubt primed for a great day filled with current - relevant - credible career progression insights! From all of us at Blue Water Advisors.... "Welcome Aboard!" Jon Pagnucco; Eric Edge; Stephen Harrington; Wade (FLIB) Blizzard; Clif Causey; Stewart Bateshansky; Simon Lee; Laterrance Jackson; David Saporito; @Ricardo Vigil; Thanks also to our partnering professionals who are joining us for another great lunch roundtable event: Edward Weiler; 🔹Mark Burns🔹; Bill "BP" P.. Truly appreciate your continued support! Finally, special thanks to my cohosts Steven Wieman, Bryan "Chum" Herdlick, Ph.D. ,for their help this go around! .....and to the rest of the Blue Water Advisors Team for their continued support....💎Todd Flannery; David Waidelich; John Malfitano Kelly Pritt; Fred Smith; Jim Webb, MBA. Thank you all! Gonna be a great day all! Congratulations!

Team.... As the Blue Water network continues to grow and mature, many of our members are approaching their first annual compensation review and as such have questions on how to navigate that conversation. Knowing how to prepare for and engage in your annual compensation review is critical. Just as you prepped for your initial salary negotiation, so too must you prep for your review. Here at Blue Water, we all have experience in how and when to drive this critical part of your professional growth. Interested in learning more, reach out. We hope to see you at a cohort soon!

Team… Fun article today that lists the top 10 cities for job seekers in 2024! Surprisingly, none of the cities we usually think of made this list this year! This serves as a great reminder for our connections preparing to separate from the military after a long career: BWA is not built only for Norfolk and DC alumni! Many of our alumni return to their home states once out of the military and that means the BWA network is quickly expanding all over the country! Our cohorts are built to be industry- and location-agnostic. So if you’re returning to your home state, leaving the defense industry, or any number of “alternative” career paths you don’t feel like you ever hear about… we’re still here to support you! Our alumni are in countless industries and all over the country. Reach out today to learn more and get on the roster for a 2025 cohort!

Team.....our next open seat is now in our April 30th cohort in PAX River! Hope to see you there! We're already taking registrations for the event! Don't delay in registering!

Team...... And just like that we are full up for our February 26th, 2025 Norfolk career progression cohort! If you are interested in joining a standby list, please reach out. While it doesn't happen frequently, there may be late availability due to member's schedule changes. Finally, our next available open seat is now in April at our inaugural PAX river cohort! If interested in joining the team, don't delay, and register today..... These events do fill up well in advance!

Team..... As our 2024 Career Progression Cohort schedule is completely full up, and with the exception of 1 open seat at our Wednesday February 26th, 2025 cohort in Norfolk we are completely full up until April 2025. That said we are thrilled to share with you all that we will be in PAX River Wednesday April 30th for our inaugural career progression cohort in that vicinity! We appreciate the support of all the Blue Water Advisors members that have assisted in this effort! Christopher Hayes, CPI ; Michael "OJ" McGlynn . Special shout out to the entire ManTech team for their engagement and support as we bring Blue Water Advisors to the PAX River area! Looking forward to this event. While it is a bit in the future, if you even think you might be interested in attending, we highly recommend registering early rather than later! Don't delay.......these events do fill up quickly! #bluewateradvisors; #Militarytransitions; #Militaryveterans; #Transitioningmilitary; #Transitioningservicemembers

Team..... What a great pleasure to meet each and every one of you! Truly wish there was more time and opportunity to engage in some quality one on one discussion however fully understand the demands on us all at this gathering! We look forward to staying in touch, and should any of you need anything from us here at Blue Water, please reach out and we'd by happy to engage as required. Special shout out to the entire Adams Keegan Team (Trevor Benitone ; Tye Reedy ; Joe Ruzicka ) for hosting us all for such a great event! Thank You! To the many we met along the way, we look forward to seeing you at another event soon! Be well team! Freddie Kim ; John Vermeesch ; David Hyams ; Andy Snelgrove, MBA ; Scott R. Tucker ; Erin E. Cardinal ; Warren Fridley ; Mark Hille ; Shelby Mounts , ..... and many more! Widest dissemination please! #Bluewateradvisors, #Militarytransitions, #Militaryveterans, #Transitioningmilitary, #Transitioningservicemembers

Team.....While it may be hard to believe, but the next available open seat is our February 2025 Norfolk, VA. career progression cohort! Even that event is nearly full up at this posting! If it is your desire to join the Blue Water family, please don't delay, and register today. Demand is quickly surpassing our ability to meet need! Remember, when it comes to your transition or as we like to say, "Career Progression", you can't start too early, but you can start too late! We look forward to hosting you soon and navigating with you to your next success!

Team....There could be no higher compliment! Once again, this is at the heart of what we are working to build and scale here at Blue Water. Senior leaders, who have all been successful in uniform, and who have been or will be successful in their next sought success! We've all led or been a part of large winning teams..... Transition doesn't have to be done alone! Join your next winning team today! We hope to see you at a cohort soon! Next BWA social / networking event December. Stay tuned for details!

Team...... We wanted to send a huge shout out to all the joined us for our 3rd quarter networking event at Warriors Taphouse! First and foremost, a sincere & most appreciative callout to our own Dave Culler and his team for hosting this event. Thank You! Finally, to our attendees; Thomas Proctor, PMP; Steven Wieman; Barcley Stamey; Scott R. Tucker; Michael Strauss; Steven Djunaedi; Bisher Mufti, MBA; Stephen T.; David Gray; John Arbuckle; Ryan Goulette, MBA; John Weidner Jr.; Frederick Heyse; Bob Holmes; Jamie Wagner; SULTAN CAMP; Sara Cummings, M.A., ACC; Pete Shoemaker; J.J. Cummings; Scott Toppel; James M.; Bob Ruby; Christopher Hayes, CPI ...... Thanks for making this another great event!! We hope to see you all again in December!