Brent Gleeson
Navy SEAL combat veteran and bestselling author helping organizations build resilience, lead through change, and drive elite performance.
Why you should book Brent Gleeson for your next event
- Founder and CEO of EXCELR8, a high-impact performance consultancy helping companies scale talent, culture, and strategic execution.
- Widely recognized Forbes columnist delivering trusted, practical leadership insights that inspire action and impact across global teams.
- Combines elite military leadership and business success to enhance focus, discipline, and results in dynamic environments.
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From Battlefield to Business: Culture That Drives Results
Bestselling author, Navy SEAL combat veteran, and award-winning entrepreneur Brent Gleeson delivers high-impact keynotes that inspire action and transform organizations. Drawing from battlefield experience and business leadership, he equips teams with proven strategies to lead through change, build resilient cultures, and drive high performance with precision, discipline, and purpose.
Brent Gleeson keynote speaker
Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, award-winning entrepreneur, and bestselling author known for helping organizations unlock higher performance through stronger leadership and culture. His journey from elite military operations to the business world gives him a unique ability to translate high-stakes experiences into practical strategies that drive measurable results.
With a background in finance and economics, an MBA, and additional studies at Oxford University, Brent combines academic knowledge with real-world execution. This combination allows him to speak not only from experience, but with a structured understanding of how organizations succeed in complex and demanding environments.
From battlefield to business
As a Navy SEAL, Brent operated in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable, where teamwork, accountability, and precision were essential. These principles now form the foundation of his work with companies across industries.
He shows how the same mindset that drives elite military teams can be applied to business settings, especially in times of uncertainty, rapid growth, or transformation. His approach focuses on building trust, strengthening communication, and ensuring that every team member understands their role in achieving a shared mission.
Leadership, culture, and performance
Brent is the founder and CEO of EXCELR8, a leadership and performance consultancy that partners with organizations worldwide. Through this work, he helps leaders and teams improve execution, align around purpose, and create cultures that support long-term success.
His key themes include:
- Building resilient, accountable teams
- Leading through change and uncertainty
- Strengthening organizational culture
- Driving execution with discipline and clarity
Rather than abstract ideas, Brent delivers concrete frameworks and tools that can be implemented immediately. His focus is always on results, helping organizations move faster, work smarter, and perform at a higher level.
Bestselling author and thought leader
Brent Gleeson is the author of the bestselling books Embrace the Suck and TakingPoint, where he translates lessons from combat leadership into actionable insights for business leaders. His writing is widely recognized for its clarity, relevance, and practical value.
In addition, he is a regular contributor to Forbes, where he shares perspectives on leadership, culture, and performance. His thought leadership reaches a global audience and reinforces his position as a trusted voice in modern leadership.
High-impact keynote experience
Brent’s keynotes are known for their energy, authenticity, and immediate impact. He combines powerful storytelling with clear takeaways, ensuring that audiences stay engaged while gaining tools they can apply right away.
He speaks with authority, but also with relatability, connecting with leaders, teams, and organizations at all levels. Whether addressing executives or large audiences, his message is consistent: strong culture and disciplined execution are the keys to sustainable success.
Book Brent Gleeson for your event
Booking Brent Gleeson means bringing a speaker who delivers more than inspiration. His keynotes create alignment, shift mindsets, and equip teams with the tools needed to perform under pressure.
Organizations that work with Brent gain a clearer path to building high-performing teams and navigating change with confidence. His ability to translate elite military principles into business success makes him a compelling choice for conferences, leadership events, and company-wide initiatives.
If your goal is to inspire action and drive real results, Brent Gleeson delivers an experience that resonates long after the event ends.
Keynotes
Keynote by Brent Gleeson:
From Battlefield to Business: Building Culture That Drives Results
In today’s fast-moving and unpredictable business landscape, organizations are under constant pressure to adapt, perform, and deliver results, often with limited time and increasing complexity.
In this high-impact keynote, Brent Gleeson brings the mindset of elite Navy SEAL teams into the business world, showing how leaders and teams can build a culture rooted in discipline, accountability, and execution. Through powerful stories and real-world experience, he demonstrates how the same principles used in high-stakes combat can be applied to strengthen organizations, align teams, and drive performance.
Brent connects the dots between leadership, culture, and results, giving audiences a clear understanding of what it takes to perform under pressure and sustain success over time. His approach is practical, direct, and built for immediate application.
Gleeson leaves audiences energized and focused, with a clear framework for building resilient teams, leading through change, and executing with purpose.
Audience takeaways:
Brent shows how high-performing teams use trust, clarity, and shared accountability to operate effectively in demanding environments, and how these principles translate into measurable business outcomes.
How to build a culture of accountability that strengthens execution, increases ownership, and drives teams to consistently exceed expectations.
Practical tools and leadership principles for navigating change, aligning teams, and maintaining performance in times of uncertainty.
Keynote by Brent Gleeson:
All in: How high-performance teams lean in & level up
In today's volatile, unpredictable, and complex business environment, organizations can find themselves in an almost constant state of change.
In this highly engaging presentation, Brent Gleeson shows the audience how to apply the same leadership, mindset, behavior, and culture principles that forge the most elite special operations units in the world to build high-performing, resilient, and adaptable teams.
Gleeson will not only leave the audience inspired and motivated but also provide an actionable framework for continuous improvement that can be applied in all areas of life and work.
Audience 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.
Keynote by Brent Gleeson:
Built to rise: leading change, building trust, and driving relentless performance
Brent Gleeson delivers high-impact keynotes rooted in his experience as a Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, and bestselling author. His talks are built around the core principles of elite performance—resilience, trust, accountability, and execution. With powerful stories and actionable strategies, Brent inspires teams and leaders to embrace change, align culture with strategy, and perform under pressure.
Each keynote is designed to challenge, motivate, and equip audiences with the tools they need to lead with clarity and win in dynamic environments.
Brent offers keynotes on the following topics:
- Leading & Managing Change
- Aligning Leadership, Culture, & Strategy
- Building a Culture of Accountability
- Measuring and Improving Trust
- Principles of High-Performance Teams
- Increasing Resilience & Fortitude
- Overcoming Adversity
- Pushing Beyond Your Comfort Zone
- Crushing Impossible Goals
- Mastering Mindset Transformation
Brent Gleeson: "TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for [...]" | Talks at Google
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