BIOGRAPHY
Sam Walker is an author, columnist, keynote speaker and leadership consultant who works with companies, military units and professional sports teams across the globe. He started at The Wall Street Journal in 1998 as a sportswriter and columnist. He served as the founding editor of the Journal’s prizewinning daily sports pages.
In 2016, Walker moved to the Journal’s page-one unit, serving as deputy editor for enterprise journalism and investigative reporting.
Two years later, he launched “Captain Class,” the paper’s first dedicated leadership column.
In addition to The Captain Class, Walker is the author of Fantasyland, a bestselling account of his high-cost, no-holds-
barred attempt to win Tout Wars, America’s most prestigious“expert” fantasy baseball competition (of which he is a two-time
champion).
Walker attended the University of Michigan. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.
