Brent Gleeson
Navy SEAL Combat Veteran, Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, Building High Performance Teams, Improving Leadership, Culture Engagement
Brent Gleeson understands what it takes to create a high-performance team that’s resilient. He also understands organization transformation. After all, he is a SEAL combat veteran and an award-winning entrepreneur.
When he left SEAL Team 5, Brent took what he knew from the battlefield and applied it to business. He is the founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership, a leadership and management consulting firm. Its focus is transforming businesses into a culture of high performance.
Brent is also a best-selling author, writing TakingPoing: A Navy Seal’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change. The book ranked #1 New Release on Amazon in Organizational Change and Business Structural Adjustment. He also writes a weekly column on Inc.com and Forbes.com. His organizations have been listed on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies.
In his presentations, Brent teaches leaders and managers how to take his 10-point program and lead change.
Brent has also starred in several reality shows including NBC’s ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ where he and Chris Kyle of America Sniper along with other special operations professionals were paired with celebrities to compete and raise money for charities like Wounded Warrior Project.
- Leading & Managing Change
- Increasing Leadership Alignment
- Aligning Leadership, Culture, & Strategy
- Building a Culture of Accountability
- Measuring and Improving Trust
- High-Performance Team Engagement
- Building Team and Personal Resilience
- Motivational Leadership at All Levels
- Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
- Creating a Resilient Organization
- Overcoming Adversity
- Pushing Beyond Your Comfort Zone
- Crushing Goals & Achieving the Impossible
- Breaking Down Silos for High-performance
- Organizational Design and Development
- Culture Transformation for Winning Results
Sample Programs
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.
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.
Crushing Your Goals & AchievingThe 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.
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.
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 drives a company to achieve better results.
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.
“Fantastic presentation! You hit the messaging perfectly. It was both entertaining and prescriptive. We will definitely be inviting you back!”
Fidelity Investments
“I recently had the privilege of not only of getting to know Brent Gleeson, co-founder and CMO of Internet Marketing Inc, but also working with him on a leadership presentation to San Diego’s SAGE Executive Group earlier this month. Brent is a dynamic, young entrepreneur and business leader who has the additional distinction of being a veteran of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs. I could not recommend Brent more highly for your keynote speaker.”
Burger King
“I heard from numerous guests in attendance during your speech, they were all blown away and considered you one of the best speakers they have ever heard.”
Proventures
“I wanted to let you know that I have received nothing but positive feedback from the ELDP members. I have been told over and over again that you were the highlight of the event — so THANK YOU!!!”
Boeing
“I was lucky enough to be in the audience a couple weeks ago when you spoke at my company. I wanted to tell you how fantastic it was. At one point my heart was racing, hands were shaking and palms were sweating. I’ve never felt more motivated. Thank you!!”
Carefusion
“Almost three weeks since you spoke to us at the 2017 Ironworkers IMPACT Conference and I still have a fire in my belly! My performance has improved at work and I have defined my role in a way to lead and not micromanage. My own accountability is priority one. Thanks again!”
Ironworkers 416
“Brent left his legacy with Coca Cola. Inspirational and true to life. Awesome, thank you!!!”
Coca Cola
“The experience that members of the military, like Brent, are bringing to the business industry are critical. For those that want to deepen their understanding of the lessons today’s veterans have learned, and how those lessons can make us all better change leaders, Brent is the person you’ll want to listen to!”
McChrystal Group