Brent Gleeson Keynote Speaker

  • Navy SEAL combat veteran
  • Award-winning entrepreneur & best-selling author
  • TV Personality and Regular Contributor to Inc. and Forbes

Brent Gleeson's Biography

Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and building high performance teams to culture, resilience, and organizational transformation. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and acclaimed speaker on topics ranging from leadership and building high performance teams to culture and organizational transformation. You can learn more about his leadership philosophies in his weekly columns on Inc.com and Forbes.com.

Brent is the Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership, a progressive leadership and management consulting firm with a focus on business transformation and building high-performance cultures. With 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 University of San Diego, Gleeson’s extensive experience is both academic and real-world in nature. Gleeson has won awards for business leadership and was named one of the “Top 10 CEOs” in Entrepreneur Magazine’s October 2013 issue for his exemplary approach to building high-performance teams in business.

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. Between his experiences in the SEAL Teams and building award winning organizations that have topped the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies, Brent has become a business transformation expert. TakingPoint highlights his ten principle program all leaders and managers will need to lead change and achieve winning results in the twenty-first century business landscape.

He 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.

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.

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Brent Gleeson's Speaking Topics

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 Organizationt

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

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Videos of Brent Gleeson

Building and Training Highly Accountable Teams
Building and Training Highly Accountable Teams
Navy SEAL Motivational Speaker Brent Gleeson on Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Navy SEAL Motivational Speaker Brent Gleeson on Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Navy SEAL Motivational Speaker Brent Gleeson on How Leaders Can Improve Trust
Navy SEAL Motivational Speaker Brent Gleeson on How Leaders Can Improve Trust

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