Brent Gleeson

Speech Topics

• 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. ● How trust impacts performance, productivity, retention, and profitability ● How to build a culture of accountability its positive impact on financial performance ● Aligning culture with strategy and desired business results

• Crushing Your Goals & Achieving The 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. ● How to push the boundaries of your comfort zone to achieve lofty goals ● Setting and achieving both individual and team goals ● Mindset transformation and rethinking your reality

• 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. ● 10 principles for leading change based on Brent's bestselling book, TakingPoint ● How to transform culture to better aligning with strategy and results ● Improving trust and accountability to improve engagement and participation

• 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 drive a company to achieve better results. ● Principles for improving employee engagement ● Communicating a winning vision and creating an emotional connection to the mission ● Defining and managing culture to achieve specific 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. ● How trust impacts performance, productivity, retention, and profitability ● Leadership behaviors that build or damage trust ● Tools for measuring and improving trust

• 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.

• Virtual Keynote - Building High-Performance Teams & Leading During Times of Crisis

  During this motivational talk, 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.

• 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.

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