Brent Gleeson: Peak Performance
Leadership keynote speaker and former Navy SEAL Brent Gleeson helps organizations lead through change, build resilient teams, and execute with clarity under pressure.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Former Navy SEAL with multiple combat deployments
- Co-founder and former CEO of Internet Marketing Inc.
- Inc. 5000 recognized entrepreneur
- Best-selling author of TakingPoint
- Formats: Keynote speaker and leadership strategist
- Audiences: Executive teams, managers, entrepreneurs, and organizations navigating change, growth, and performance under pressure
- Outcomes:
- Stronger leadership execution during change and uncertainty
- Practical frameworks for building resilient, accountable teams
- Clear strategies to drive culture, trust, and performance
- Travels from: San Diego, CA
- **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
Building High-Performance Teams
Building High-Performance Teams & Leading During Times of Crisis (Virtual)
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. Brent Gleeson 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.
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 Gleeson 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 takeaways that they can start applying to their personal and professionals lives immediately.
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.
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 drives a company to achieve better 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, Brent 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.
Crushing Your Goals & Achieving the Impossible
This presentation is designed to motivate teams at all levels and across any type of organization.
Brent Gleeson 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.
Talent Short Bio
Brent Gleeson is a former Navy SEAL combat veteran, award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and globally sought-after keynote speaker. His career bridges elite military leadership and high-growth business execution, giving him a rare and powerful perspective on leading teams through complexity, change, and uncertainty.
Brent served multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the United States Navy SEALs, where he developed an uncompromising standard for leadership, accountability, and teamwork. Operating in high-risk environments taught him how trust, clarity, and adaptability determine outcomes when the stakes are highest.
After transitioning from military service, Brent applied these principles to entrepreneurship. He co-founded several successful ventures, most notably Internet Marketing Inc., where he served as CEO. Under his leadership, the company experienced rapid growth and earned recognition on the Inc. 5000, reflecting his ability to scale performance-driven cultures in competitive markets.
Brent is also the author of the best-selling leadership book TakingPoint, which outlines ten fail-safe principles for leading through change. Drawing from both battlefield and boardroom experiences, the book provides practical frameworks for resilience, organizational transformation, and high-performance leadership.
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