Brent Gleeson

Featured Keynote Programs

In today's volatile, unpredictable, and complex business environment organizations can find themselves in an almost constant state of change. However, more change initiatives fall short or fail due to a lack of leadership alignment, poor discipline, and the proper culture founded on accountability and trust.

In this highly engaging presentation, Gleeson shows the audience how to apply the same leadership and culture principles that forge the most elite special operations units in the world for building high-performance teams that lead change with passion, grit, and resilience. The audience will leave inspired and motivated but more importantly with actionable insight they can apply immediately.
 

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.

• How trust impacts performance, productivity, retention, and profitability 
• How to build a culture of accountability and its positive impact on financial performance 
• Aligning culture with strategy and desired business results 

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 takeaways that they can start applying to their personal and professional lives immediately.

• Leadership and management in the twenty-first century 
• How to lead through change and organizational transformation 
• Special operations leadership approach applied to business 
• How to lead with an agile decentralized command model

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 achieve success and win. The audience will leave with at least three key takeaways that they can start applying to their personal and professional 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 

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 drives 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 

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