1. Senior Leader Orientation Course
GENERAL DAVE AND DAWN GOLDFEIN
21ST CHIEF OF STAFF AND SPOUSE

2. Congratulations! Congrats to you and yours spouses!
Welcome to the Club of They
Most of us joined for a variety of reasons but we stay because of the people and the mission. Now is our opportunity to give back.
We know many of you but others we don’t. Opportunity to get to know each other.
Dawn and I want to share some experiences to help fill your toolbag, kick off this SLOC course, and hear what is on your mind.
You are part of a select group of 200: 130 (AD)/54 (Reserve)/19 (Guard)
181 = Total number of SES in the Department of the Air Force

3. Senior Leader Team
Dave -- Our families exhibit a special kind of courage when they endure the long hours, the separations, and the hardships so common to our service.
Dave – I could not do this job without her.
Dawn – introduce us as a couple and family
Dawn – this is what “senior leader team” means
There for each other
Strive for balance
Keep each other humble
Divide and conquer (mission and people)
Have fun
Mentoring … raise our replacements (commanders courses)

4. Dave’s Sandbox Up Down and Sideways Up – your bosses
Sideways – your peers and partners
Down – the Airmen you are privileged to serve
Congress
International Teammates (NDS focus … mil to mil relationships)
American people and the press … comes with the rank

5. Dawn’s Sandbox
Have a choice … no expectations. Hoping you will get involved. Understand full time careers or AD themselves.
Finding passion is what matters … for me:
Children (MCEC)
Key Spouses – mentoring
Representing the USAF and helping with teambuilding in our home
Making relationships with international friends
Dave – importance of Dawn in building relationships as CFACC

6. Expectations Impeccable Character Servant Leadership Ownership
Appropriately Decisive
Collaborative Team Builders
Fit to Lead
Connected
Up Down and Sideways
Up – your bosses
Sideways – your peers and partners
Down – the Airmen you are privileged to serve
Congress
International Teammates (NDS focus … mil to mil relationships)
American people and the press … comes with the rank

7. Challenge or Opportunity?
See challenges as opportunities
Senior Airman Kevin Greene, **You reenlisted him in the office in Nov 2017
Lost leg after motorcycle accident
One of the first single amputee Airmen returned to duty in Air Force Reserve Command
Returned to duty after two-and-a-half-year fight, including three rejection letters and an in-person medical evaluation board
Outside of military service, Greene is a Lead Registered Behavior Technician, working with low-level functioning autistic children. He is also a basketball coach for inner-city kids.
Space Force as an opportunity
Joint Stars as an opportunity
Readiness recovery and NDS as opportunities
Dawn – story about AF spouse of the year.

8. Have Fun
Why would anyone want to be us if we are not showing them how to have fun?
Take time for ourselves as well as them … free them to take leave
Story of CORONA and Rae

9. Find Balance Dawn – not a math equation. Doesn’t always work out.
Sometimes AF wins … sometimes family wins
Family … Air Force … Couple … Self

10. Sacred Duty
Dave – never forget where our Airmen come from … reason you are going next week to Lackland and a BMT graduation as the last thing you will do.
Test question --- hopeful to hopeless. How do we make this the richest experience. Inspirational leadership is our only retention tool.
Dawn – just visited SrA Justin Day and his wife Aubrey. Wounded in Afghanistan from an IED.
On his birthday they learned they are going to have a baby boy.
Patriotic family from Oregon … talk through family
These are the incredible Airmen we are privileged to serve as a leadership team