Veteran Resilience Speaker & Military Transition Expert
Garret Biss helps organizations, conferences, campuses, recovery programs, and corporate ERGs understand the unseen challenges of military transition and equip Veterans to reconnect with identity, purpose, resilience, and meaning.
Veteran Transition
& Resilience Expert
Helping Veterans reconnect with meaning, rebuild confidence, and thrive beyond the trauma of military transition.
Who Books Garret
Garret Biss speaks for conferences, behavioral health organizations, recovery communities, veteran-serving agencies, higher education programs, leadership teams, and corporate Veteran or military-connected ERGs.
Popular topics include veteran resilience, military transition, post-traumatic growth, recovery, identity, connection, authenticity, meaning, leadership, and workplace wellbeing.
Garret is Most Known For
Trainer | Keynote
From the TEDx stage to conferences to the training classroom, Garret is known for his experiential-training style. Blending humor, audience participation, and heartfelt stories, Garret has a talent for inspiring audiences and equipping them for impact and growth.
Award-Winning Author
Through his writing, Garret blends deep personal experience with actionable advice, making complex concepts accessible and engaging. His writing inspires readers to transform their lives, offering pathways to recovery and happiness.
Recovery Coach
As a USMC Veteran, Garret knows what it takes to help Veterans thrive in their life beyond military service. Surviving a dark period of addiction and suicidal thoughts, he's been there and knows how to lead other Veterans back to purpose, passion, and greater success.
Capt. Biss, USMC (Ret.)
Veteran, TEDX Speaker, Award-winning Author, and Respected Thought-Leader in the Addiction Recovery Industry, Garret Biss is a highly-sought speaker and trainer for diverse audiences from national conference stages to the board room.
An esteemed speaker and storyteller, Garret's message blends engineering precision with innovation and military leadership to inspire change and offer practical solutions to complex challenges.
GARRET BISS USMC (Ret.)
Garret Biss is a Marine Corps veteran, TEDx speaker, award-winning author, certified recovery coach, and respected voice in veteran resilience, military transition, and addiction recovery.
After serving as a Marine Corps officer and pilot, Garret faced the disorientation, anxiety, depression, substance use, and loss of identity that many Veterans experience after leaving the military. His recovery became the foundation for a larger mission: helping Veterans, professionals, and organizations understand the human impact of transition and rebuild lives around connection, authenticity, meaning, and post-traumatic growth.
Today, Garret speaks for conferences, campuses, recovery organizations, behavioral health providers, justice programs, and corporate ERGs, blending lived experience, applied positive psychology, leadership insight, and practical tools audiences can use immediately.
His work is centered on elevating Veterans to their highest potential for happiness, well-being, success, and contribution.
Signature Speaking & Training Topics
From campuses to workplaces to recovery programs, Garret brings insight and tools that help Veterans reconnect with purpose, resilience, and post-service potential.
Veteran resilience and military transition
Post-traumatic growth after trauma and adversity
Recovery, identity, and meaning after addiction
Connection, authenticity, and meaning as foundations for wellbeing
Reconnection, regulation, and resilience
Veteran-informed leadership and workplace belonging
Supporting Veterans in recovery, higher education, and justice settings
Turning lived experience into purpose, contribution, and growth
Supporting Veterans
in Every CLIME & PLACE
When Veterans are equipped with the right tools and supported by informed leaders, they bring unmatched dedication, resilience, and innovation to any environment. But when the transition from service is misunderstood—or when internal struggles go unseen—Veterans may show only a fraction of their true potential.
This isn’t a lack of ability; it’s a lack of alignment, understanding, and culturally informed support.
Garret helps organizations, campuses, and behavioral health programs bridge that gap.
Through strengths-based, trauma-informed insight, he equips teams to better understand the Veteran experience, reduce invisible barriers, and cultivate conditions that enable Veterans to contribute at their best.
When Veterans thrive, the environments around them benefit.
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What others are saying about Garret
TESTIMONIALS
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BOOKS by Garret Biss
Transform Your Recovery Journey
This workbook is your first step towards a life unchained from the past, filled with the promise of a brighter, thriving future.
Embark on a transformative journey towards joy and fulfillment with the FIRST STEPS workbook. Crafted specifically for those in recovery, this guide offers practical exercises designed to free you from the shadows of your past, propelling you into a thriving future.
Is FIRST STEPS for you?
Are you feeling stuck in your recovery, sensing that something essential is missing? Perhaps you've made progress but have hit an unexpected plateau, or you're seeking fresh insights to share with clients or sponsees. If your recovery journey feels limited by the emotional and personal aftermath of addiction or substance use disorder, FIRST STEPS will guide you toward the breakthroughs you want.
Find on Amazon - FIRST STEPS to Thriving in Recovery
Elevate Your Happiness and Fulfillment
What if one new idea could dramatically improve the enjoyment you get from life?
The Spheres Approach is an enriching and empowering message that will help you to break free from the chains of conventional thinking, limiting beliefs, outside expectations and social norms that hold you back. These chains manifest in our lives as tempered happiness, diminished potential and a failed expression of our true self. It's time to break free.
The award-winning book shares remarkable insight about the source of stress and unhappiness in our lives. The result of a 15-year study of personal growth and success, this Spheres Approach to Happiness and Fulfillment is certain to help you reveal a happier and more productive version of you!
Find on Amazon - The Spheres Approach to Happiness and Fulfillment
Discover Hidden Benefits of Kindness & Generosity
"This book is a gift that will transform your appreciation for charity and the act of giving."
- Jack Canfield, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
"Charity: The Gifts of Giving is filled with ideas that are easily put into practice, and you don't need to have a lot of money to get started. I liked how the author demonstrated through his personal experiences every aspect covered in this book. As I was reading it, I started brain-storming on what I could do and how I could use my personal skills to help others. Biss' attitude on charity and giving is quite contagious. This inspiring book may seem small at first, but it's really very big on ideas to make acts of charity a part of your everyday life. Most highly recommended."
-Review by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Find on Amazon - CHARITY The Gifts of Giving
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