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Ben Strahan      

Hotshot Crew Wildland Firefighter, Founder of Moment Consulting LLC & Suicide Survivor

For over 24 years, Ben Strahan has served as a Wildland Firefighter for the US Forest Service on what is recognized as a Hotshot Crew, renowned as the special forces of wildland firefighting, and esteemed as the finest Wildland Firefighters globally. His extensive tenure in this domain has afforded him invaluable opportunities to master risk mitigation and adeptly lead teams in the most daunting environments, where the preservation of life and property hangs in the balance. With a remarkable track record encompassing participation in nearly every significant wildfire across the western United States over the past two decades and more, Strahan has honed his leadership skills, guiding high-performance teams through extreme circumstances to achieve positive outcomes and safeguard lives and landscapes. Through his journey, he has acquired the ability to swiftly assemble teams and cultivate excellence regardless of the situation.

Moreover, Strahan is a survivor of suicide, having navigated through a harrowing attempt on his life in 2020. His personal journey of healing has bestowed upon him profound insights and a newfound perspective on life's intrinsic values. Drawing from this experience, he now endeavors to inspire others to embrace the essence of self-leadership and live their most fulfilling lives. By amalgamating his background in human performance, his illustrious career in Wildland Firefighting, and his triumphs and tribulations in life, Strahan motivates individuals to unlock their full potential and cultivate lives imbued with love.

In light of his journey, Strahan founded Moment Consulting LLC, a Self-Leadership enterprise dedicated to assisting companies, organizations, teams, and individuals in achieving positive outcomes within their lives and the lives of others. Through the compelling medium of storytelling, he imparts authenticity and wisdom, leaving an indelible impact on those he encounters and reinforcing his commitment to giving back to the collective journey we all share.

Speech Topics

Self-Leadership

To be a good leader, one must be a good leader of themselves. This topic is intended to inspire others how to look at leadership in a new way so they can become high performers in their life, and in turn, inspire the teams they are in to achieve the same high performance. Ben uses storytelling of his 24 year plus career leading the best Wildland Firefighters in the world, known as Hotshots, and his struggle with mental health, to help companies, organizations, teams, and individuals find the outcomes they are looking for.

Mental Health

Ben speaks openly and authentically about how he has overcome his mental health issues and how he not only survived an attempt of suicide, but how to thrive afterword’s.

How to Mitigate Risk

With Ben’s over 24 years of leading one of the most high-performance Wildland Fire teams known as Hotshots in the world, he shares with companies, organizations, teams and individuals on how to mitigate risk at the highest level. Using tools such as the “Time Wedge” and “An 80% plan now, is better than a 100% plan that's too late”. Having been involved with almost every catastrophic wildfire in the west for 24 years, he has learned how to rapidly build high performance teams to mitigate risk in some of the most extreme situations to achieve positive outcomes to save life and property.

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