Entrepreneur, Veteran, Mentor & Author

Stephen Nalley, DBA, CHA

Stephen is an accomplished Entrepreneur having owned and operated several companies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.  Over the past 20 years, he has not only succeeded in business, but he has past on his knowledge to others.  Stephen has mentored hundreds of professionals, who have gone on to start successful companies and/or generate six figure incomes.

Entrepreneur, Veteran, Success & Business Strategist, and Author of Relentless Pursuit.

Stephen Nalley, DBA, CHA

Stephen describes his philosophies in detail in his two books “Relentless Pursuit” the foundations and principles of success and “Relentless Pursuit” the foundations and principles of mental toughness.  Many of these principles come from Stephen’s prior military service as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Army and his 20 years of working with some of the top entrepreneurs in the America.  However, he accredits the mentors in his life from these careers with the knowledge and development of the foundation and principles that he calls relentless pursuit.

Stephen is passionate and energetic.  He loves what he does and makes it his mission to bring value to everyone that knows him.  To learn more about Stephen, Please see below.

Stephen is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Black Briar Hotel Group and Black Briar Advisors.  Black Briar is a uniquely positioned full service real estate investment company that specializes in the acquisition, repositioning, renovating and asset management of distressed hotel & resort assets. Black Briar and its Managing Principles have significant transactional experience and are experts in all phases of the real estate life cycle. This includes deal structuring, contract negotiation, due diligence, underwriting, raising and closing on debt/equity capital structures, asset management, renovations and property management.  Black Briar and its principals have owned and asset managed over $2B in real estate assets, which includes over 100 hotel & resort assets.

Prior to Founding Black Briar, Mr. Nalley was the Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee for Ocean Waters. Ocean Waters was a multifaceted real estate investment company, which consisted of over 129 separate entities, 79 real estate assets, 45 operating hotels, and various office, retail, and residential components. Mr. Nalley was responsible for the day-to-day leadership and general management of the company.  Mr. Nalley assisted Ocean Waters and its Principals in creating over $1 Billion in value by acquiring nonperforming Hotel & Resort assets and leading them to profitability.

Prior to his civilian career, Stephen Nalley served in the United States Army as a light infantry squad leader and Commando with the 10th Mountain Division’s Special Troops Battalion.  Mr. Nalley was honorably discharged and is a disabled service-connected veteran.

Stephen Nalley received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of North Florida, and earned his MBA and DBA from the University of Atlanta and a Law Degree from Washington University School of Law.

Stephen is also a Certified Hotel Administrator through the American Hotel & Lodging Association and a Professionally Certified Life Coach through the International Association of Professions Career College.

Books by Author Stephen Nalley, DBA, CHA

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Relentless Pursuit lays out the secret to success as knowing what you want, having a compelling reason why you want it and the discipline to sacrifice what we want right now for what it is that we really want later.  We get there by aligning our actions with our goals and always being the most prepared person in the room without exception.