That was the best and most authentic presentation on values-based leadership and culture I've ever seen. So many speakers just tell stories, but you actually taught us how to improve!
Brent Gleeson
Navy Seal Combat Veteran And Leadership, Culture and Engagement Expert, Bestselling Author
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Brent Gleeson
Biography
Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran with multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Africa. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from resilience, mental toughness, leadership and building high-performance teams to culture, and organizational transformation.
Brent is the Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership, a progressive leadership and organizational development consulting firm with a focus on business transformation and building high-performance cultures. Brent was named a Top 10 CEO by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2013.
Brent holds degrees in finance and economics from Southern Methodist University, certificates in English and History from Oxford University in England and a graduate business degree 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 on Amazon in the self-help, self-esteem, and military leadership categories.
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How High-Performance Teams Navigate Change with Resilience & Passion
In today's volatile, unpredictable, and complex business environment organizations can find themselves in an almost constant state of change. But more change initiatives fall short or fail due to a lack of leadership alignment and discipline, and the proper culture founded on accountability and trust.
In this highly engaging presentation, Brent Gleeson shows the audience how to apply the same leadership and culture principles that forge the most elite special operations units in the world to build high-performance teams that lead change with passion, grit, and resilience. The audience will leave inspired and motivated but more importantly with actionable insights they can apply immediately.
TAKEAWAYS
- 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.
- How to build a culture of accountability, have game-changing effects, and drive a team to achieve more than expected.
- Actionable principles for managers to use in leading an organization through change.
Leading Through Uncertain Times With Passion & Resilience
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.
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.
- 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
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 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
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