Jay Truesdale - Purpose, Diplomacy, and the Craft of Understanding Risk
About this episode
Jay Truesdale discusses his career in diplomacy and military service, emphasizing the importance of understanding risk and building trust.
In this episode, I sit down with Jay Truesdale, a geopolitical risk adviser and former U.S. diplomat and Navy Reserve officer whose career spans diplomacy, military service, and private sector leadership. Jay traces his sense of duty back to childhood, inspired by family stories of wartime service. That early call led him into diplomacy and the Navy Reserve, with formative experiences across Russia, Ukraine, and South Asia. We talk about the craft of diplomacy in the real world: building trus...
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