Ralph Hood

Ralph Hood is a Certified Speaking Professional who has addressed aviation groups throughout North America. A pilot since 1969, he's insured and sold airplanes at retail and distributor levels and taught aviation management for Southern Illinois University.

Ralph Hood is also an award-winning columnist (he writes for several publications), a salesman and sales manager (he sold airplanes, for crying out loud!), a teacher (he taught college-level aviation management) and a professional public speaker who has entertained and enlightened audiences from Hawaii to Spain, and from Fairbanks to Puerto Rico.

• Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), National Speakers Association
• Past member, National Ethics Committee, National Speakers Association
• Past president of Alabama Speakers Association
• Member, Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame
• Past National Marketing Mentor, AOPA Project Pilot