As Founder & CEO of EXCELR8, Brent combines elite-team leadership principles with an AI-powered growth and transformation platform that helps organizations align leaders, activate teams, and sustain execution beyond the event.
Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, 5x Inc. 500 CEO, 3x technology company founder, award-winning entrepreneur, 3x bestselling author, and Forbes leadership columnist. As Founder and CEO of EXCELR8, he helps enterprise organizations strengthen leadership, culture, execution, and growth through AI-powered software and high-impact activation programs.
Drawing on elite-team operating principles and decades of experience building and scaling companies, Brent delivers practical, energizing keynotes that help leaders and teams build trust, embrace accountability, navigate change, and execute under pressure.
The most effective organizations do not let the keynote end when the session ends. They use the energy, shared language, and leadership lessons from the event to address an immediate business opportunity, team challenge, or execution priority.
EXCELR8 helps leaders turn event momentum into measurable action through activation workshops, diagnostics, AI-supported reports, and platform-enabled follow-through.
Brent’s keynote creates the energy and shared language. EXCELR8 turns that momentum into measurable action.
Clarify growth goals, commercial priorities, accountability gaps, and execution barriers.
Align leaders around priorities, decision rights, expectations, communication norms, and operating cadence.
Surface trust, collaboration, conflict, communication, and accountability patterns that accelerate or hinder performance.
Customized sessions built around immediate mandates such as sales growth, transformation, integration, operational excellence, AI adoption, or retention.
Before or after the keynote, EXCELR8 can deploy a focused diagnostic to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for activation. The data can be used to customize the workshop experience or inform a broader growth and transformation program.
✓ Strategic clarity and priority alignment
✓ Leadership and manager effectiveness
✓ Team dynamics, culture, and trust
✓ Cross-functional collaboration
✓ Accountability and follow-through
✓ Execution rhythm and transformation readiness
✓ Executive-ready insight summary
✓ Strengths, risks, and friction themes
✓ Recommended workshop or activation priorities
✓ Clear next steps for a pilot or broader program
This gives leaders a fact-based view of where to focus while event momentum is still high.
EXCELR8 combines AI-powered diagnostics, execution tools, and high-impact activation programs to help organizations align priorities, mature leadership behaviors, strengthen culture, and turn strategy into measurable action.
The platform captures the operating context behind goals, priorities, leadership behaviors, team dynamics, meetings, actions, risks, and outcomes—helping teams move from insight to action faster.
Goals, priorities, leadership behaviors, team dynamics, meetings, and execution patterns.
Identify misalignment, priority drift, risks, and recommended actions.
Action plans, owners, commitments, follow-through, and accountability.
Outcome: RevOps execution, faster decision cycles, stronger accountability, expanded renewals, and measurable growth impact.
Outcome: Leadership alignment and platform-enabled accountability cadence helped move a low-performing area from #16 to #5 in 90 days, creating a reported $7M sales lift with additional upside.
Outcome: Improved cadence, operational discipline, manager collaboration, and debriefing behaviors; cited by the customer as contributing to Hub of the Year recognition.
Brent is a 3x bestselling author and long-time Forbes leadership columnist whose work focuses on leadership, resilience, accountability, culture, and leading through change. His books and media appearances have helped leaders translate elite-team principles into practical habits for business performance.
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