Vanguard- The Thought Leaders' Alliance and Legends & Legacy is made up of the thought leadership industry top experts and influencers who utilize proven development models, management systems and experience to advance the platforms of our thought and wisdom leadership.

Vanguard is proud to capture and celebrate the uniqueness of our Legends and their messages.

We link a select group of leaders to the world by creating a pathway for wisdom, leadership, education, inspiration, and solutions to reach our future generations. Our relationships with both leaders and the though leadership industry provides us with the ability to manage every aspect of the process, from initial interest of capturing a leader's wisdom to creating and advancing a sustainable business model for the leader. 

Areas of industry expertise: Writing, publishing, speaking and touring, training systems, public relations, bestseller engineering, social media, and the critical business management over all functions.

By applying our proprietary methodology to extract the key leadership elements, we will begin a process to document the wisdom leadership in a practical and relative way specific to each leader and targeted consumer.  This is accomplished through a skilled process blended with the reality that the leader is a finite resource. Through trust, we will take on the heavy lifting in all areas and principle protection as a nonnegotiable requirement.

Through principle protection we seek to preserve and document the thought contribution of the Wisdom Leader, both individually and corporately, for the betterment of society.

Vanguard's internal team along with industry clients and partnerships provide the business development channels required to advance the Wisdom Leader's content and platform. This is in the form of published books, training modalities, member communities, workshops, events, speaking and consulting.

Vanguard seeks industry, humanitarian and community leaders who maintain a vast span of influence combined with genuine values and the vision for a sustainable future. Each serves our fragile nation and its culture by advancing their personal and business leadership competencies and critical thinking skills.

“Wisdom Leaders reside all around us and are our greatest national resource to navigate this critical time. We must effectively communicate their contribution of experience, leadership and wisdom to the people. This is our obligation and we need our leaders to first Stand UP with us as a unified front to transcend our history, our culture, our values, and our lessons to our future generations. Vanguard and Legends & Legacy seeks to bridge that gap for our country, our communities, for our children and our grandchildren.  This is your legacy!” ~ Suzanne Leonard 

The critical challenge in this industry is the segmentation of strategic services offered between the wisdom leaders and required industry partners in order to bring them to market successfully. This is a niche and unique industry that has a steep learning curve, even for the most successful and seasoned business leaders. The industry is comprised of many services and functions that must work together in unison to effectively create exposure in this chaotic and noisy marketplace. Vanguard cuts though that chaos delivering legendary wisdom leadership to the consumer, be it individuals, corporations, associations, or communities.

The humanity of our mission, by design, is to create solution-focused individuals, organizations and communities from the inside out, which is the key requirement to challenge the current human and economic conditions. To achieve this our wisdom leadership must effectively serve our legacies through a new lens of engagement to deliver these fresh thoughts and ideas. We conscientiously remain 'outside of the box' with our critical yet casually creative approaches in all platforms, content and communications. This approach is an art form and requires the collaborative support of strategic visionaries, partners, clients, and organizations to engage.

Vanguard partners with corporations, associations, bureaus, industry professionals, and organizations to develop customized experiences that achieves the goals set out for their specific initiatives. In our unique model we offer complimentary consulting services to clients and partners insuring the highest intellectual and fiscal returns are achieved against their investments. Be it a retreat, community event, marketing campaign, or team offsite, there is a considerable stake as well as opportunity to get it right. Our team works hand and hand with our partners and their leadership to insure all leader selection, content, and ongoing development is consistent to the goals established by the partner. Additionally, Vanguard is a full-service agency providing all logistical and administrative activities freeing the partner and legend to focus on the critical elements of content.

Vanguard supports our partners with the specific goal to increase the experiential and transformational impact through leaders stories, expertise, and content. While this is a fundamental and required function, Vanguard goes a step further and involve ourselves in the success of our partners' event, meeting, retreat or ongoing training roll out. Whether it be industry best practices, revenue opportunities or creative approaches in marketing, we are active participants in the success of all our stakeholders.

Beyond the business plan and strategy, the core purpose of serving humanity is at the heart of Vanguard and Legends & Legacy's mission. The national team, partners and leaders are first and foremost purveyors of the vision. The world is in a very critical time of generational, technological, economic and political shifts and instability. The United States and the world needs super champions delivering hope and genuine leadership to all people.

While a hunger exists for growth and change, the noise is prolific from the Internet, Media and Hollywood, which make it nearly impossible to find the genuine thought leaders. Our job is to intentionally cut through the noise as a single trusted access point globally and advancing the next generation of legends out of the chaos. Through this platform, additional physical and digital channels connecting the individual to the thought leaders within and beyond their communities will be established. These channels along with the direct connection will impart the powerful messages needed today to adjust the global trajectories by empowering change- one life at the time.

Legends & Legacy is a grassroots movement to create Legacy Communities, Corporations and Individuals with the strategic mission to restore America from the inside out. This is achieved in alliance with the local and national Legacy leaders that currently exist in abundance across America. The agenda of Vanguard and Legends & Legacy is to create personal and economic change for people, communities and our nation. The ultimate mission is to empower our legacies to become independently sufficient in an effort to marginalize the national and global effects upon them.

"Begin at the End." Vanguard is focused on creating legacies. To do this we must remain on the cutting edge of societal, cultural, political and economic conditions and responses. We choose to see the hope and opportunity in all conditions and challenges. This may seem idealistic but it is a plague that our future generations need not be inoculated from by the current political environments and media influence.

“The ampersand logo in Legends & Legacy has a very significant meaning. WE are the connection, the link between the legends (history) & legacy (future).” -Suzanne Leonard, Founder and CEO

Vanguard and Legends & Legacy is committed to providing our Legacies with ongoing access to Legends, leadership, resources, tools and communities. We believe that to create sustainable and forward thinking platforms we must be listening to our Legacies and meeting their needs. We take pride as the masters of creating fun, engaging, simple and sometimes outrageous approaches that never insult generational intelligence but on the contrary puts forth information and leadership in highly creative ways that engages hearts and minds of all people. Legends & Legacy is created and guided by the People for the People.