Ryder System’s Todd Skiles: “How To Survive And Thrive During A Time Of Crisis; 5 Lessons I Learned From My Military Experience”

Chris Quiocho
Authority Magazine
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9 min readJun 15, 2020

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“Do what you can to ensure your actions and communications align with the values of the company” — Todd Skiles

In this interview series, we are exploring the subject of dealing with crisis and how to adapt and overcome. The context of this series is the physical and financial fallout that resulted from the COVID 19 pandemic. Crisis management is one characteristic that many successful leaders share in common, and in many cases, it is the most important trait necessary to survive and thrive in today’s complex market.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Todd Skiles.

Todd is the Senior Vice President of Sales for Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) and Dedicated Transportation Solutions (DTS) at Ryder System, Inc. focused on matching Ryder’s solutions with the real and vital needs of customers. Todd is responsible for overseeing the sales and solutions team for SCS and DTS. Under his leadership, sales revenue has grown by more than 130% and sales productivity has doubled.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would love to get to know you a bit. Can you tell

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Chris Quiocho
Authority Magazine

Combat Veteran and Pilot by trade. Chris is a 4x Entrepreneur, host of the Jet Set Podcast, and Founder of offland.com