Leo Goff, Ph.D.

Leo Goff, Ph.D. is a retired Navy Captain, having served for 30 years in submarines or working at the strategic leadership level in the Pentagon. Since retirement in early 2011, he has held the position of president and owner of ACARYIS, a consulting company focused on energy and the environment and their impacts to organizational alignment and strategic direction. Concurrently, he is the program manager for CNA's Military Advisory Board, a group of retired three- and four-star flag and general officers from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps who study pressing issues of the day to assess their impact on America's national security. Their focus for the last several years has been on climate, energy, and national security.

Goff holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior with a concentration in leadership, a Master's degree in Public Administration, and a Master's Degree in Executive Business Administration. He was a distinguished fellow at Maxwell School for Strategic Studies at Syracuse and a senior fellow on the Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group (SSG), focused on cyber warfare. He is a graduate of MIT's Seminar XXI, where his concentration was on foreign politics and international relations. He earned his commission at the United States Naval Academy, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering.