For over 25 years Dwight Pledger has been about the business of developing, fine tuning and perfecting his message of hope and restoration to thousands. Dwight’s message is not built on the platitudes of other men and women, but is born out of a personal journey through a life that has seen him rise to the pinnacle of business success only to fall victim to a destructive habit and waste it “all” away. Hooked and homeless in 1986, Dwight found himself flat on his back, a broken, wounded and hurting man, looking up and calling on a power greater than himself, and because he looked up he was able to get up.

Dwight authored a autobiography titled, The Truth about The Big Lie and Beyond, which chronicles his 7 year journey into the world of drug & alcohol addiction. Dwight now uses his 34 years in recovery to speak to a wide range of audiences about pitfalls associated with addiction, and how to sustain a lifestyle, clean, sober, and restored.

From 1992 to 2015 Dwight served as Co-Founder and President of Ray of Hope Ministries, a drug and alcohol outreach and restoration ministry, based in Southern California. Dwight along with the Ray of Hope Ministry teams took their message of hope and healing to Churches, Prisons, Rehabilitation Centers, and Non-profit. Ray of Hope also established and managed to women’s recovery homes in San Bernardino, California. Ray of hope also consulted many organization with establishing their own in house recovery support groups.

In 2003 Dwight officially became a member the Les Brown Speaker’s Network. As a protégée of Les Brown, Dwight has received personal mentoring, and has traveled extensively nationally and internationally sharing the platform with Les. Dwight continues to work with Les Brown and is a part of his Platinum Speaker Program which allows Dwight to receive ongoing coaching and training in the area of professional speaker development. Dwight continues to collaborate with Les Brown on many events and projects on an ongoing basis.

For the past 8 years Dwight has joined forces with Dan Smith, and together founded D&D Training and Coaching Solutions. Using their collective insights to develop a training and coaching system known as Three-Dimensional Storytelling (3D). Dwight & Dan are currently Co-hosting Les Brown’s Monday Motivation Call, where they present broad range of personal development topics and training modules on a weekly basis.

In September of 2016 Dwight will celebrate 41 years in the Real Estate industry, obtaining his real estate license in 1975, and his experience covers nearly every level and area of real estate sales and acquisitions. He has acquired the designation of “Graduate of Realty Institute” (GRI). Dwight also obtained the National Association of Realtors, At Home with Diversity certification. Dwight now uses his experience and knowledge to train real estate professional. He uses his signature personal development training “Selling Real Estate is a R.E.A.L. J.O.B.”

Dwight presently resides in Southern California with his wife of over 48 years, Sadie. Dwight is the father of three children, and six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.