Client: United States Navy - Diversity, Recruitment and Retention
Industry: Government & Military

Who They Are:

The United States Navy manages recruiting through the Navy Recruiting Command (NRC) in Millington, Tennessee, with regional Navy Talent Acquisition Groups (NTAGs) overseeing local efforts. Retention is handled through MyNavyHR and career counselors, while diversity outreach is managed by specialized NRC teams. Their mission is to attract, develop, and retain the highest caliber of leaders and service members to ensure mission readiness and operational excellence across one of the most complex military systems in the world.

Challenge:

The Navy faced a critical challenge: how to build highly effective teams and leaders inside a complex, diverse, high-pressure system while ensuring recruitment and retention remained strong.

Success required more than filling positions—it required creating cultures where people wanted to serve, grow, and stay.

The Navy needed leadership strategies that would engage women leaders, diverse communities, and high-potential recruits across all backgrounds. This included strengthening opportunities for women in leadership, building inclusive systems that supported underrepresented groups, and helping all leaders—including white male officers—understand their role in creating stronger, more effective teams.

The challenge was clear: improve recruitment and retention by strengthening leadership, inclusion, trust, and culture across every level of command.

Pegine Power Solution™: Serving Our Country Through Leadership That Includes Everyone

For over 10 years, Pegine partnered with the United States Navy to create transformational leadership development programs focused on recruitment, retention, diversity, and mission success.

Her work included:

• Women-centered leadership development programs
• Diversity leadership initiatives across ranks and divisions
• Specialized recruitment and retention engagement strategies
• “White Guys Are Diverse Too” programming for officers and senior leaders
• Leadership and management training for Navy personnel from Admirals to enlisted Petty Officers
• Interactive workshops designed to strengthen communication, trust, and team effectiveness

Pegine’s signature approach brought bold conversations, practical leadership tools, and high engagement into military environments where performance and trust were mission critical.

She helped leaders understand that diversity is not a department—it is a leadership responsibility.

Her programs focused on creating belonging, increasing leadership awareness, and helping teams operate with greater effectiveness across differences in culture, gender, rank, and experience.

Because in military service, retention is not built by policy alone—it is built by leadership.

Results:

• Supported Navy recruitment and retention initiatives for more than a decade
• Trained leaders across all ranks, from Admirals to enlisted Petty Officers
• Strengthened women’s leadership pipelines and leadership visibility
• Improved cross-cultural communication and team effectiveness
• Increased awareness and accountability around diversity and inclusion leadership
• Created stronger recruiting relationships within diverse communities
• Reinforced retention through people-first leadership strategies and trust-building

Pegine’s work became a trusted part of leadership development because it helped the Navy strengthen both mission readiness and human connection.

Client Testimonial:

"Pegine’s ability to engage leaders across every level of the Navy created real transformation. She brought courage to difficult conversations, clarity to leadership challenges, and strategies that helped our teams become stronger, more connected, and more effective."

 — Capt Ken Barrett, US Navy, Head of Diversity

Pegine’s Power Wisdom Quote:

“Diversity is not about checking a box—it is about building a mission-ready team where every person knows they matter. Leadership is not rank. Leadership is a responsibility. And the strongest leaders make everyone stronger.”