Brent Gleeson
Navy SEAL Combat Veteran; Expert on Leadership, Corporate Culture & Building High-Performance Teams
SPEAKER FEE RANGE: $12,000–$40,000 [FEE NOTE]
TRAVELS FROM: California
Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple tours to Iraq and Africa and other theaters of war. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an accomplished entrepreneur, bestselling author and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and building high-performance teams to culture and organizational transformation. Brent offers keynote presentations as well as extended workshop programs and facilitation.
Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, an award-winning entrepreneur, 2X bestselling author, and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from change leadership, building high-performance teams, and organizational transformation to resilience, mental toughness, and building a culture of accountability and operational excellence. Brent has built some of the fastest growing companies in the US having been an Inc. 500 founder five years in a row and was named a Top 10 CEO by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2013.
Brent is the Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership whose mission is to equip committed teams with the leadership tools and professional development necessary for navigating change and growth with accuracy and precision. TakingPoint provides organizational development solutions to companies across the globe.
Brent holds degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, certificates in English Literature and Criminal Justice from Oxford University in England and a MBA from the University of San Diego. He is the bestselling author of TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail-Safe Principles for Leading Through Change, which was a #1 New Release on Amazon in Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment. Brent’s latest book, Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life was #1 bestseller in the self-help, self-esteem, and military leadership categories. He is married with four amazing children.
Brent is on the executive board of the SEAL Family Foundation and his family is an Ambassador Family for March of Dimes. He is married with three wonderful children.
Brent is the Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership whose mission is to equip committed teams with the leadership tools and professional development necessary for navigating change and growth with accuracy and precision. TakingPoint provides organizational development solutions to companies across the globe.
Brent holds degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, certificates in English Literature and Criminal Justice from Oxford University in England and a MBA from the University of San Diego. He is the bestselling author of TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail-Safe Principles for Leading Through Change, which was a #1 New Release on Amazon in Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment. Brent’s latest book, Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life was #1 bestseller in the self-help, self-esteem, and military leadership categories. He is married with four amazing children.
Brent is on the executive board of the SEAL Family Foundation and his family is an Ambassador Family for March of Dimes. He is married with three wonderful children.
- Virtual Keynote - Building High-Performance Teams & Leading During Times of Crisis
During this motivational talk, Brent draws connections between how high-performance teams in any environment can leverage trust, teamwork and accountability to achieve their goals. He provides tools for improving trust that have a measurable economic impact on any organization. He also dives into how building a culture of accountability can have game-changing effects and drive a team to achieve more than they ever expected. - Leadership Lessons For Elite Teams
This presentation is specific to leadership at all levels. Brent compares stories from the battlefield, the lessons learned, and how those lessons apply to leadership at any level across any type of organization or team. Brent talks about how to build a culture of leadership, servant leadership, adaptive change management, and much more. The audience will leave with at least three key take aways that they can start applying to their personal and professionals lives immediately. - Building High-trust Organizations that Achieve Winning Results
Productivity, income, and profits of any organization can be directly negatively or positively impacted depending on the levels of trust within the team. Trust is one of the most critical elements of a strong team culture that gets results and successfully navigates change. In this presentation, Gleeson shares the seven principles for building high-trust organizations: Integrity of Leadership, Investing in Respect, Empowering Everyone, Accountability for All, Creating a Winning Vision, Keeping the Team Informed, and Embracing Sacrifice.
● How trust impacts performance, productivity, retention, and profitability
● Leadership behaviors that build or damage trust
● Tools for measuring and improving trust - Prioritizing People Culture and Values to Achieve Results
People, culture, and values often have a reputation for being a "soft" element of management’s priorities and not directly tied to improving profitability. Yet, many studies show that leading with culture makes an organization stronger, more resilient and much more profitable. Gleeson shares correlations between SEAL culture and high-performance teams in business and how prioritizing people, culture and values drive a company to achieve better results.
● Principles for improving employee engagement
● Communicating a winning vision and creating an emotional connection to the mission
● Defining and managing culture to achieve specific results - Leading Change: A Navy SEAL’s Principles for Navigating Organizational Change
In today’s more volatile, unpredictable and complex business environments businesses can find themselves in almost constant states of change. But more change initiatives fall short or fail due to a lack of leadership alignment, the proper culture founded on accountability and trust and poor discipline. In this presentation, Gleeson provides actionable principles for managers to use in leading an organization through change.
● 10 principles for leading change based on Brent's bestselling book, TakingPoint
● How to transform culture to better aligning with strategy and results
● Improving trust and accountability to improve engagement and participation - Crushing Your Goals & Achieving The Impossible
This presentation is designed to motivate teams at all levels and across any type of organization. Brent shares stories from combat and talks about teamwork, persistence, adaptation, sacrifice, and how elite teams really achieve success and win. The audience will leave with at least three key takeaways that they can start applying to their personal and professionals lives immediately.
● How to push the boundaries of your comfort zone to achieve lofty goals
● Setting and achieving both individual and team goals
● Mindset transformation and rethinking your reality - Maximum Performance Through Trust, Teamwork & Accountability
In this presentation, Brent draws connections between how high-performance teams in any environment can leverage trust, teamwork, and accountability to achieve their goals. He provides tools for improving trust that have a measurable economic impact on any organization. He also dives into how building a culture of accountability can have game-changing effects and drive a team to achieve more than they ever expected to.
● How trust impacts performance, productivity, retention, and profitability
● How to build a culture of accountability its positive impact on financial performance
● Aligning culture with strategy and desired business results
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