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Brian Fleming        

Combat-Wounded Veteran, Resilience Expert, Author

Brian Fleming is a combat-wounded Afghanistan war veteran, suicide bombing survivor, and international speaker who provides resilience and leadership training across various sectors. He specializes in showing individuals and organizations how to adapt and overcome unexpected life situations using simple yet potent military strategies that can be directly applied to achieve desired outcomes swiftly.

Severely injured by a suicide bomber in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while serving as a Team Leader with the US Army's elite 10th Mountain Division, Fleming faced the grueling challenge of rebuilding his life after spending 14 months in a hospital. Drawing from his experiences, he now imparts the lessons learned on resilience and mental toughness to others. Over the past 15 years, Fleming has authored three books on human resilience, including titles such as "Never The Same," "The Resilience Booklet," and "Redeployed: How Combat Veterans Can Fight the Battle Within and Win the War at Home."

Fleming’s insightful keynotes and training sessions, such as “How to Stand Firm When Everything Around You Is Blowing Up” and “The Resilient Leader- How to Become the Leader Others Want to Follow,” have reached over half a million people across 42 US states, in 7 countries, and on 4 continents. He has delivered his message to top Fortune 100 companies like Bank of America, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Chevrolet, and has been featured on every major news network in the United States. Fleming lives by the mantra: “When you understand how a battlefield works, you'll understand how to make your life work,” which underscores his approach to teaching resilience and leadership based on real-world military experience and personal recovery.

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How to Overcome Unexpected Change In A Constantly Changing World

Most organizations are losing enormous amounts of money every year because they don’t know how to adapt to changes in the marketplace fast enough. Brian Fleming will show your organization a proven military framework for adapting to unexpected challenges so your organization will continue to grow and thrive.

When you understand how a battlefield works, you’ll understand how to make your organization adapt and grow. Book Brian today!

Learning Outcomes & Takeaways:

Your audience members will walk away knowing how to:

  • Quickly adapt to the constant and unexpected changes in the marketplace
  • Unify all of your departments and employees around a common mission
  • Clarify communication among your teams (so they can accomplish more in less time)
  • Understand their roles better and why their role matters
  • Create a stronger sense of unity among your team members and departments
  • All of your employees understand each other and are on the same page
  • More productive daily engagement between leaders and their team members
  • Employees are motivated to succeed more
  • Lead engaging meetings that aren’t boring that people want to attend
  • Everyone knows how to respond to unexpected challenges because they are all aligned around the same common & proven framework for quickly adapting to change

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