— ABOUT TAKING POINT LEADERSHIP —

We are a Change Leadership management consulting firm focused on building alignment, accountability, resilience, and adaptability in every organization we partner with.

WHAT WE DO

TPL designs and executes leadership and team development solutions for companies that want to build a culture of high-performance, lead lasting change, and achieve desired business outcomes.

From enhancing the leadership and management capabilities of your talent at all levels, to strategic alignment, culture transformation, and implementing employee engagement strategies, our team of experts is your partner in driving operational excellence.

OUR MISSION

We equip committed teams with the leadership tools and professional development necessary for navigating change and growth with accuracy and precision.

OUR VISION

Develop a reputation of excellence for building high-performance leaders.

OUR SOLUTIONS

OUR VALUES

Alignment:  Encourage a shared vision and mission within the team, aligning individual and team goals with the organization’s objectives through open communication for a collective commitment to the company’s direction.

Trust:  Promote a positive work environment by fostering employee security and value through open communication, cultivating a culture of teamwork, shared responsibilities, and unity toward common goals.

Accountability:  Establish clear expectations and performance metrics, fostering a culture of continuous feedback. Encourage ownership, commitment, and personal responsibility in contributing to the team’s success.

Precision:  Prioritize accuracy and detail in decision-making and execution, emphasizing excellence in tasks and projects. Strive for continuous improvement to enhance customer experience and satisfaction.

Adaptability:  Promote a culture embracing change and encouraging a growth mindset. Foster continuous learning and innovation and empower individuals to take initiative, shaping a proactive and innovative environment.

Resilience: Cultivate a mindset that sees challenges as opportunities for growth, celebrating and learning from failures. Build a culture of individuals eager to expand their comfort zones.

— LEADERSHIP TEAM —

Brent Gleeson
FOUNDER & CEO

Brent is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, 5x Inc. 500 CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, and 2x bestselling author. He leads growth, strategy, technology, and client experience. Brent holds degrees in finance and economics from SMU, a MBA from the University of San Diego, and certificates in English Literature and Criminal Justice from Oxford University. Brent reports to Nicole Gleeson.

Nicole Gleeson
FOUNDER & CVO

Nicole provides strategic vision for long-term sustainability and innovation. As Chief Visioary Officer, Nicole’s focus is on marketing, brand position, and growth. Having spent years as a sales and marketing executive for a global organization, her insight and experience fuels TPL’s approach to talent development and strategic alignment. Her passion for giving back landed her Chairwomen and Ambassador Family for March of Dimes, Southern California.

Dyan Grace
VP OF CLIENT PARTNERSHIPS

Dyan has extensive experience in marketing, client experience, data, and reporting. She is a certified facilitator in 360 feedback deployment, debriefs, and action planning for leadership development. Dyan leads all aspects of TPL’s Client Experience initiatives – from inception to execution – and ensures all client partnerships result in exceptional ROI.

Mathew Lehnig
VP OF PROGRAMS

Mathew is an expert in leadership development, organizational transformation, and building high-performance teams. As a retired Navy SEAL Officer and decorated combat veteran, Mathew draws from 30 years of experience in Naval Special Warfare, he understands the value of building strong, resilient leaders and teams to help drive organizational success and achieve extraordinary results.

Wes Pingree
VP OF SALES

Wes Pingree joins TakingPoint Leadership as Director of Business Development, bringing his positive energy and over 15 years of sales and event experience. Wes believes that connecting through the “human element” is the best way to build trust and accountability. He takes time to educate, nurture, and understand our clients goals, vision, and challenges to provide the best resources and solutions.

Tom Huckabee
CFO

Tom Huckabee joined our leadership team with over 30 years of experience in assisting organizations with financial decisions that promote growth, profitability, and longevity. He brings strategic planning, finance, and accounting expertise that aids in the development of new services and capabilities.

Patrick Carmichael
STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Patrick Carmichael is a results-driven HR executive with extensive international experience developing the professional, management and executive talent of global corporations. With over 30 years of experience in challenging HR roles, Patrick remains engaged advising large corporations, research institutes, and SME’s on strategic and operational HR issues.

— SENIOR CONSULTANTS —

Sacha Lindekens, Ph.D
Specializes in executive coaching and leadership development

Sacha Lindekens is a Partner with Avion Consulting. He specializes in executive coaching and designing and delivering leadership development programs for organizations ranging from large multinational organizations to small to mid-sized family owned entities. His client base is a principally, but not exclusively, in the professional services, financial services, technology/media, and health-care industries. Sacha is a published author on the topic of executive coaching and leadership development and he aspires to fill the role of trusted advisor with his coachees on their learning journey.

Darryl Albertson, PH.D
Specializes in organizational development, human resources, and change management

Darryl is a Partner with Avion Consulting, a formal strategic partner of TPL, and an advisor to prominent leaders and organizations in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and change management. Darryl specializes in the healthcare, financial services, and defense industries. He has extensive Human Resources and international experience with a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California. His areas of expertise include executive coaching and assessments, leadership and high potential programs, team development, talent management/succession planning, and change management.

David “Finch” Guenthner
Specializes in process improvement and organizational development

David “Finch” Guenthner is a former United States Air Force F-16 pilot, entrepreneur, and TPL consultant in the areas of leadership fundamentals and team dynamics. He helps organizations develop an operational rhythm and cadence to ensure company-wide communication and processes align with an organization’s goals and objectives. Finch provides organizations the operational framework and strategic business planning needed to execute business objectives while maintaining flexibility and course correction as needed. He brings extensive knowledge in process improvement and the ability to identify, analyze and improve current business practices.

Patrick Houlahan
Specializes in strategic leadership and organizational development

Patrick is a former Marine Colonel and fighter pilot with 12 years of active duty and 15 years in the reserves. He brings extensive experience driving organizational improvements, leadership excellence, and culture-driven practices.
Founder of Strategic Leadership Consultants, Patrick recognized a profound difference between people, viewpoints and feelings when it came to leadership and organizational culture. He understands the importance of finding a balance between focusing on mission-driven leadership and culture, and a focus on organizational processes. Both are extremely important. Patrick believes in building leaders that demonstrate compassion for their people and drive tactical actions to achieve company objectives.

Aaron Tucker, Ph.D.
Specializes in employee and operational excellence

Aaron has two decades of experience leading teams and organizations including the Navy SEALs and successful 5x startups. Aaron has defined the optimal culture and metrics needed to guarantee success. He is an expert in leading through change and effectively navigating within ambiguity and chaos.
His experience leading all SEAL operations in Central America and his senior role within a big four firm has given him opportunities to lead and coach executives in breaking down cultures, silos, and increase their ability to communicate and achieve highly effective teams using both practice-based and behavioral science.

Misti Cain
Specializes in strategy and organizational development

Misti helps leaders create step-by-step ‘Profit’, ‘Process’, ‘People’, and ‘Productivity’ business operations plans. She teaches companies how to identify and overcome organizational, leadership, culture, marketing, and customer experience challenges so they can build profitable well-run companies, manage engaged high-impact teams, and attract loyal customers.
As a senior strategist, Misti has helped achieve notable growth, retention, and brand awareness success for well-known companies like CIGNA Healthcare, Jazzercise, Aruba Tourism, Couples Resorts, GreatCall, and The Westin Hotel Brand. She is passionate about helping the workforce love Mondays.

Jim Gardner
Specializes in leadership development and HR transformation

Jim is a former Navy SEAL Officer and Marine Infantry Officer. During his eleven years of service, he completed five deployments (three of them combat), led a variety of teams, and served as a consultant to leaders overseas. After the military, Jim spent a year as a Business Management Consultant in a tech startup and nearly 4 years as an HR Business Partner at an Ed Tech company where he sat on the leadership teams and supported both large operations business units & growth subsidiaries. Jim completed Harvard Business School Executive Education’s Program for Leadership Development and has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of San Diego.

Scott Leonard
Specializes in strategy and change management

Scott is a leadership and organizational development expert that believes in developing a culture of excellence. For 20+ years he has leveraged tools and techniques to build and develop elite, high-performing individuals, teams, and organizations.
Delivering innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to organizational, strategic and operational challenges regardless of the industry or business function, Scott enjoys working with and leading clients and teams to deliver results at scale while simultaneously augmenting technical and leadership core competencies.

Fabi Howard, MA. LPC.
Specializes in executive coaching and organizational development

Fabi Howard, a Licensed Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, and Organization Development Consultant has combined her education in human behavior with her career experience in corporate America to help organizations and leaders achieve and exceed their goals. Fabi specializes in behavioral leadership development including emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and team building.
Helping people grow is her passion. Her strength lies in her intuitive nature and innate ability to establish rapport and build trust quickly with her clients. Because of this, she is able to target and implement simple, yet powerful strategies, leading to immediate results and positive growth.

Andrew “Roem” Roemhild
Specializes in leadership ALIGNMENT AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE 

Andrew is a former Navy SEAL Officer and combat veteran of 14 years. He currently helps organizations identify key aspects of building high performing teams, and fostering cultures that emulate Special Forces unity. Having served with multiple units within Special Operations, he draws from operational and organizational experiences where rapid culture development and cohesion were needed on short timelines, when mission success depended on it. Andrew is a Senior Consultant at TPL, and leads in-person and virtual training, coaching, and facilitation for key client partner accounts.

Greg Hake
SPECIALIZES IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Greg is a Navy SEAL veteran with multiple combat deployments in support
of the global war on terror. Leveraging over 20 years of military experience,
Greg helps motivate professionals to pivot quickly in the face of change and
embrace decentralized servant leadership. He specialized in change

management, culture transformation, and organizational development.

Greg plays a direct role in facilitating leadership development programs for

TPL client partners. He has an MBA from University of Southern California

and is the father to 4 amazing kids.

— SEE US IN ACTION —

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— IN THE MEDIA —

Why You Hold Your Boss Accountable, According to a US Navy SEAL

Business Insider: July 10, 2018

Navy SEAL and author of “Taking Point: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change,” Brent Gleeson explains why accountability and trust are key to any company’s success.

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Business Commands From a Navy Seal

Cheddar: February 6, 2018

Brent Gleeson, former Navy Seal and author of “Taking Point: A Navy Seal’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change,” discusses his time in the military and how it helped him become more business savvy.

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Navy Seal Brent Gleeson Reveals How to Overcome Adversity

Parade: March 6, 2018

It isn’t every day that we get to hear firsthand what it’s like to serve as a Navy SEAL. Such was the first career of Brent Gleeson, who, upon returning to civilian life, has built award-winning, multimillion dollar organizations that have been repeatedly named in the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies.

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Rancho Santa Fe resident translates Navy SEAL and corporate experience into management, leadership book

Rancho Santa Fe Review: March 20, 2018

In the late 1990s, Brent Gleeson was cruising toward a successful career in the business world. Then, he joined the Navy’s SEAL program, with overseas duty that included “capture or kill” missions in Iraq.

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Episode 328: Brent Gleeson discusses the transition from Navy SEAL to businessman

SOFREP Radio: February 20, 2018

Navy SEAL Brent Gleeson joins us in studio for the podcast, which we livestreamed. He has a new book out next week, it’s called “TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail-Safe Principles for Leading Through Change.” Be sure to pre-order it. The book gets into some of the takeaways Brent was able to deliver to the business world, and we hear all about it.

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The System This Navy SEAL Uses to Communicate Seamlessly

Inc.com: November 3, 2017

Every company needs communication to flow within their workplace. Here are two barriers that get in the way according to Brent Gleeson, author of ‘TakingPoint.

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The 1 Question That Will Show If Someone Is Right for Your Company

Inc.com: November 13, 2017

Hiring the right person is important. Here’s the question that will make sure you do, according to Brent Gleeson, author of ‘TakingPoint.’

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The Barnes & Noble Podcast: Brent Gleeson

The Barnes & Noble Podcast: April 27, 2018

Every author has a story beyond the one that they put down on paper. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes between the lines with today’s most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, what confounds them, and what they were thinking when they wrote the books we’re talking

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The Unbeatable Mind Podcast: Brent Gleeson

Unbeatable Mind Podcast: August 30, 2018

Brent Gleeson is a former SEAL and a prominent entrepreneur. He’s also a well known speaker merging his leadership lessons from the SEALs and how to apply them to business. Most recently, he’s also the bestselling author of the book “Taking Point: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail-safe Principles for Leading Through Change.” Mark and Brent talk about his work and his principles of leadership. Listen to this episode to gain insight on how an Unbeatable Mind is necessary both in the military and the business world.

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How To Use TakingPoint Principles to Build Family Alignment

The Home & Family Show, May 2, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and bestselling author, Brent Gleeson explains how his principles for leading through change can be applied in a family setting.

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Interview with Brent Gleeson, Founder & CEO at TakingPoint Leadership

USA Weekly: February 28, 2018

Starting a business is a big achievement for many entrepreneurs, but maintaining one is the larger challenge. There are many standard challenges that face every business whether they are large or small. It is not easy running a company, especially in a fast-paced, ever-changing business world.

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Our mission is to inspire organizations to achieve company-wide alignment, a shared vision, and winning results through a culture-driven approach to leadership, change management, and business transformation. We do this through our high-impact keynotes, workshops, and leadership development programs.

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