Robert O'Neill
Best-selling author and SEAL Team Six veteran Robert O’Neill transforms combat experience into corporate strategies for resilience, decisive leadership, and winning under pressure.
Why book Robert O'Neill for your next event
- The SEAL Team Six operator who fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, Robert O’Neill delivers unparalleled insights on courage, precision, and decisive leadership, showing organizations how to achieve mission success even under impossible odds.
- With more than 400 combat missions worldwide, Robert O’Neill brings first-hand experience from the most high-pressure environments, translating battlefield-tested resilience and adaptability into practical strategies that help businesses thrive in uncertainty.
- As the leader in the daring rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates, Robert O’Neill demonstrates how bold decision-making, flawless teamwork, and focus under pressure can inspire organizations to overcome their toughest challenges.
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From SEAL Team Six to Corporate Success
Book one of America’s most decorated Navy SEALs to inspire your audience. A former SEAL Team Six leader and best-selling author, Robert O’Neill delivers powerful keynotes on resilience, leadership, and teamwork, equipping organizations with proven strategies to overcome challenges and achieve mission success.
Keynote Speaker Robert O’Neill is one of the most highly decorated combat veterans of our time and a true authority on leadership under pressure. As a former SEAL Team Six operator and team leader, O’Neill is best known for firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden during Operation Neptune’s Spear. His legendary career also includes taking part in the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates and the extraction of the “Lone Survivor,” Marcus Luttrell. With over 400 combat missions worldwide, Robert O’Neill has lived and led through some of the most defining moments in recent history.
For organizations seeking a speaker who can deliver actionable lessons with real-world impact, Keynote Speaker Robert O’Neill brings unmatched credibility. His insights on resilience, teamwork, and decision-making are drawn directly from the battlefield, but translate powerfully to today’s business challenges. Leaders and teams leave his keynotes equipped with tools to embrace adversity, build trust, and succeed under pressure.
Robert O’Neill is also a New York Times best-selling author of The Operator and The Way Forward. His story has been featured on Fox News, CNN, and CBS, establishing him as a trusted voice on leadership and performance.
Book Robert O’Neill for your event to inspire your organization with strategies forged in the most demanding environments, and empower your people to thrive against all odds.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Robert O'Neill:
The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles & Create Your Lasting Legacy
Learn from the man who had Osama Bin Laden in his sights and led the team that killed him. When Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Robert J. O'Neill was a SEAL Team Six leader, he led extractions under enemy fire, tailed terrorists for days, and snuck onto land to meet with sources. His training taught him to be resourceful and make good decisions no matter the circumstances. Now he shares his lessons from these experiences to show you how to achieve what may seem impossible and become the best version of yourself.
Based on his book The Way Forward: Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy, Robert O’Neill offers audiences a deeper look into how to use hard-earned lessons from both his time in combat and his personal life to accomplish their goals, overcome adversity, and discover the hero within you.
Based on his book The Way Forward: Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy, Robert O’Neill offers audiences a deeper look into how to use hard-earned lessons from both his time in combat and his personal life to accomplish their goals, overcome adversity, and discover the hero within you.
Keynote by speaker Robert O'Neill:
Never Quit: The Story of a Life Built on Successful Missions
Rob O’Neill served America as a Navy SEAL, team leader, and senior chief petty officer with the Naval Special Development Group (SEAL Team Six) during several of the most challenging, storied, and clandestine military operations of our time. With this speech, O’Neill shares what he learned during his more than 400 combat missions across four theaters of war.
Through his moving and emotional stories, Rob brings to life lessons learned during some of the country’s most headline-stealing conflicts. O’Neill explains to audiences how the best of the military’s best approach strategic planning when mission failure is not an option.
Audiences come to appreciate the people who are asked to do the hardest jobs – the warriors, husbands and wives, and family men and women – who they know exist but have never met, and who are focused solely on making their missions successful. Join one of the legends of our nation’s military as he shares his views on the ingredients to a successful mission: the right people, preparedness, decision making under pressure, and, above all, a commitment to never quit.
Through his moving and emotional stories, Rob brings to life lessons learned during some of the country’s most headline-stealing conflicts. O’Neill explains to audiences how the best of the military’s best approach strategic planning when mission failure is not an option.
Audiences come to appreciate the people who are asked to do the hardest jobs – the warriors, husbands and wives, and family men and women – who they know exist but have never met, and who are focused solely on making their missions successful. Join one of the legends of our nation’s military as he shares his views on the ingredients to a successful mission: the right people, preparedness, decision making under pressure, and, above all, a commitment to never quit.
Robert J. O'Neill Motivational Speaker, Killer of UBL
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