After the keynotes, the experience continues with an exclusive networking social where you’ll connect with top performers, meet the speakers, and participate in a private book signing — deepening relationships that last long after the event ends. Leadership Unleashed isn’t about hype. It’s about transformation through truth, tested experience, and real connection.
This isn’t a lecture hall. Leadership Unleashed is built like a private leadership mastermind — a place where top performers gather, exchange insights, and sharpen each other.
You’ll connect with other driven leaders who know what it means to lead under pressure — and you might meet your next key ally, advisor, or business opportunity along the way.
Leadership isn’t a title — it’s a skill set. At Leadership Unleashed, we focus on the critical skills that separate managers from true leaders.
Our speakers have spent their careers mastering the disciplines necessary to thrive at the highest levels — and they’ll show you how to elevate your leadership edge in today's unpredictable environment.
Rich Diviney
His first book, The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance, unveiled these innate qualities, such as resilience and adaptability, transforming how individuals and teams achieve excellence. Building on this, Rich launched The Attributes Inc., a consulting business revolutionizing leadership and team development.
In his latest book, Masters of Uncertainty, Rich shares Navy SEAL and neuroscience-backed strategies to thrive under stress and turn chaos into success. His Mastering Uncertainty Method empowers individuals and organizations to navigate today’s unpredictable world.
Since retiring in 2017, Rich has worked with top organizations, including Google and the San Francisco 49ers, inspiring audiences worldwide to harness their potential and thrive in every aspect of life.
Jim Foreman
Jim Foreman is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL Command Master Chief with 27 years of elite military service, including leadership at Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU – SEAL Team 6) — one of the most selective and operationally demanding units in the world.
As a Tier 1 Operator and strategic leader, Jim led high-stakes missions across multiple theaters, ensuring success under extreme conditions. But his true legacy isn’t just in mission execution — it’s in the leaders he built, the teams he strengthened, and the strategic frameworks he developed to ensure long-term success.
Throughout his career, Jim was known for demanding excellence without compromise. He set operational protocols that reshaped how missions were executed and mentored operators who became exceptional leaders in their own right.
Today, Jim brings those battlefield-tested principles to organizations worldwide, teaching companies how to build cultures of accountability, resilience, and performance under pressure.
Brenda Neckvatal
Brenda Neckvatal helps the strongest leaders deal with the messiest people—because leadership gets real when emotions get loud,
trust gets shaky, and egos start swinging. She’s a three-time bestselling
author, an award-winning Human Results expert, and a serial entrepreneur featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc., and
US News & World Report.
After 18 years inside six Fortune 500 companies, Brenda
transitioned out of traditional HR and into Human Results, where the goal isn’t checking boxes. It’s getting results. Her no-fluff strategies have helped over 1,000 leaders and 700 companies avoid costly mistakes, fix toxic dynamics, and build teams that actually work.
Brenda has spoken on nearly 400 stages, delivering high-impact transformational keynotes that break through the audience’s mental
background noise and land with such precision, audiences lean in, lose track of time, and get fully immersed in the message. With 30 years of experience, she’s a trusted mentor in crisis management, group dynamics, and leadership transformation—especially when the stakes are high and the people are difficult.
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