Alden Mills: Unstoppable Leadership
Leadership keynote speaker Alden Mills equips teams and organizations with proven Unstoppable Leadership strategies that build resilience, drive performance, and transform potential into sustained impact.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Former Navy SEAL platoon commander, ranked number one in every command
- Creator of the Perfect Pushup and holder of 40+ patents
- Built Perfect Fitness into a global brand with $95M in sales in three years
- Bestselling author of three leadership and mindset books
- Formats: Keynote speaker and leadership coach
- Audiences: Organizations, leaders, teams, and high-performance cultures seeking resilient, aligned, mission-driven leadership
- Outcomes:
- Clear frameworks for developing self-leadership and team leadership that withstand challenge and change.
- Practical, repeatable tools for building cohesive, high-performing, Unstoppable Teams.
- A mindset shift that expands possibility and unlocks greater individual and organizational performance.
- Travels from: San Francisco, CA
- **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
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Keynote Topics:
UNSTOPPABLE MINDSET
The Mentality and Tools for Achieving Your Full Potential
This keynote dives into the key differentiator of success stopping us from reaching and surpassing potential — an Unstoppable Mindset.
Alden weaves together riveting stories, inspiration, and practical tools to teach the Mindset Fundamentals to become unstoppable, regardless of industry, environment, or situation.
Much more than just a motivational experience, he shares a system that enables people to tackle tough challenges, use change to their advantage, and seize bold opportunities time and time again.
Why do some people amaze even themselves with what they accomplish while others never reach their potential?
The mindset is an amalgam of attitudes and beliefs, which form the basis of behaviors that end up driving actions to give you results. If you think about everything that you do in life, it really boils down to two things: decisions and the actions stemming from those decisions. The tools provided in this keynote will help you master your decisions and actions:
- Learn the Mindset Horizon
- Build your Mindset Map
- Understand the Mindset Components
- Utilize the Unstoppable Goals system
UNSTOPPABLE TEAMS
The Actions and Strategies for Building and Leading High-Performing Teams
This keynote explores the universal leadership essentials to build high-performing Unstoppable Teams that continuously surpass what they set out to achieve. Alden demonstrates how leaders can drive greater alignment, trust, and outsized contributions.
He shares the five phases of unstoppable team development and the key actions to implement each phase. Using his C.A.R.E. Loop, he provides a roadmap to activate and effectively turn groups of individuals into Unstoppable Teams.
In today’s hard-charging world, success is determined by your ability to build and lead teams. The C.A.R.E Loop strategies provided in this keynote teach managers and leaders how to build and lead an unstoppable team of individuals:
- Connect: The four essential actions for building trust remotely and in-person
- Achieve: The foundations of setting direction, using SITREP (Situation Reports) and AAR (After Action Reports)
- Respect: The techniques for how to create mutual respect and build team contributors
- Empower: The fundamentals of developing team ownership, the trinity of education, and overcoming empowering pitfalls
UNSTOPPABLE CULTURE
The Practices and Essential Components For Enduring Organizational Success
This keynote details how stakeholders in senior leadership and human resources build an Unstoppable Culture to drive lasting employee engagement, competitive advantage, and outsized growth.
Through personal stories, checklists, and live exercises, Alden shows how to close culture gaps by building intentional structure, dynamic practices, and congruent values that leaders and teams apply together—day after day, week after week.
Attendees learn the behaviors and tools that create an Unstoppable Culture by embedding the three Ps—Promise, People, and Process—a practical three-part framework to close the gap between an organization’s existing culture and activating what he calls the 10x Advantage to create an Unstoppable Culture.
A high performance culture is dependent on senior leadership and human resources’ being educated how and empowered to become cultural custodians of their organization. This keynote provides the practices and essential components to teach them how.
- Understand the Three Pillars of Culture
- Utilize the Culture Compass
- Execute the Universal Culture Habits
- Learn the Essential Actions for Closing the Culture Gap
Talent Short Bio
Alden Mills is a renowned leadership keynote speaker, bestselling author, and former Navy SEAL platoon commander known for teaching leaders how to build unstoppable teams and cultures in any environment. With more than four decades of experience across sports, military service, entrepreneurship, and community leadership, he has seen firsthand that every breakthrough begins with self-leadership. His early journey defying severe childhood asthma shaped a lifelong belief that constraints do not define capability, a mindset that carried him to become a National Collegiate Champion rower, Olympic Festival medalist, and the top graduate of his SEAL training class.
An inventor and entrepreneur at heart, Alden transformed one notebook sketch into the Perfect Pushup and ultimately built Perfect Fitness into the fastest-growing consumer products company in America. The business expanded to over 70 countries and surpassed $95 million in sales within three years, earning him a reputation as a highly effective leader, innovator, and builder of high-performing teams. Across multiple ventures, board roles, and advisory positions, he refined the Unstoppable Leadership methodology, a practical framework that empowers individuals and organizations to lead congruently, collaborate effectively, and thrive through uncertainty.
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Alden Mills is on a mission to help 100 million people Be Unstoppable. With more than 40 years of experience failing and succeeding in a vast array of different environments from sports, military, and business to nonprofits and community action groups, he learned success is driven by one vital factor – leadership – of oneself and others.
The first person Alden learned to lead was himself. As a weak child with asthma, doctors insisted he limit physical activity and avoid sports. Instead, with the mindset instilled in him by his mother that “no one defines what you can and can’t do, but you,” he went on to become a National Collegiate Champion rower, earning Gold and Silver medals at the Olympic Festival, and a Navy SEAL who was top of his class. From a young age he amassed notebooks of invention drawings. One of those ideas became the wildly popular Perfect Pushup and today he holds over 40 patents worldwide.
As Alden Mills achieved personal successes, he repeatedly grew into leadership positions. He became captain of his collegiate rowing team, was promoted three times to Navy SEAL platoon commander, and ranked #1 platoon commander each time. He turned a single invention into a global fitness powerhouse in over 70 countries with multiple products, leading Perfect Fitness to become the fastest-growing consumer product company in the country, with over $95 million in sales in just three years. He has since founded and served on multiple companies’ boards in retail hard goods, consumable products, and service-based businesses.
Along the way, Alden Mills cultivated a methodology – Unstoppable Leadership – that develops people into congruent and authentic leaders who successfully build teams and create cultures that are unstoppable regardless of the situation, industry, or environment.
Today Alden Mills is known as one of the leading business thinkers in America and spends his time helping others learn and implement the three levels of Unstoppable Leadership. He is the bestselling author of Unstoppable Mindset, Unstoppable Teams, and Be Unstoppable. Through speaking, coaching, writing, board advisory, and teaching, Alden helps people acquire the mindset, tools, and actions required to accomplish more than they thought was possible.
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