LEADING VOICE IN VETERAN TRANSITION, RESILIENCE & POST-SERVICE GROWTH

Equipping veterans with strengths-based, trauma-informed tools that improve engagement, strengthen resilience, and support long-term success.

LEADING VOICE IN VETERAN WELLNESS

Improving Veteran Outcomes Across Campuses, Workplaces & Recovery Systems

Unlocking Veteran Potential Through Understanding, Connection & Purpose

Every year, Veterans enter new chapters of life—on campuses, in workplaces, or entering treatment and recovery.

They bring discipline, resilience, leadership, and a depth of experience few populations can match.

But the transition from military life is often far more complex—and far more painful—than most realize. Many Veterans carry invisible burdens: disrupted identity, emotional disconnection, chronic stress, or a loss of purpose. These challenges can lead to disengagement, isolation, or struggle in environments where they want to succeed.

These aren’t signs of weakness.
They’re signs of untold stories and untranslated strengths.

When navigating these challenges goes unsupported, suffering endures, and potential gets muted.
But when we understand what’s really happening beneath the surface, and are guided through veteran-tailored support, everything changes.

Veterans reconnect with identity.
Engagement and resilience rise.
Communities, campuses, and organizations grow stronger.

With the right insight and tools, Veterans don’t just transition—they thrive. And when Veterans thrive, everyone benefits.

Audiences Garret Empowers Through His Work

Veteran Groups

Life after the military can feel confusing, isolating, or directionless. Garret provides relatable guidance to help Veterans reconnect with their strengths, understand their inner experience, and chart a path toward meaningful post-service growth.

Rebuild purpose and restore your sense of self.

Veteran Workforce

Veterans bring insight, grit, and a deep sense of responsibility—but those strengths don’t always translate smoothly after service. Garret helps organizations understand the Veteran experience, reduce unseen barriers, and create environments where Veterans contribute their best.

Maximize the impact of your Veteran talent.

Helping Professionals

You see the effects of transition, trauma, and loss of purpose up close—but may not always have language that fits the Veteran experience. Garret offers practical, strengths-based, trauma-informed perspectives to help you meet veterans where they are and address what’s beneath the surface.

Deepen your insight and expand your impact.

Most Requested Topics (Available as Keynotes or Training Workshops)

Veteran Mental Health, SUD Recovery & Justice-Involved Programs

Veterans navigating recovery or the justice system face unique emotional and identity challenges shaped by service. When providers understand these dynamics, outcomes improve: reduced relapse, stronger self-worth, healthier relationships, and safer reintegration.

COMMON TOPICS:

1. Strengthening Emotional Resilience in Military-Connected Recovery

Military conditioning can impair emotional regulation and keep veterans stuck in survival mode. This message offers trauma-informed and strengths-based tools to help veterans reconnect with internal resources and move toward empowered recovery.

2. Restoring Meaning: Rebuilding Identity, Purpose & Post-Traumatic Growth

Purpose is one of the strongest protective factors in recovery. This message helps clinicians and peer supports guide veterans through meaning-making, moral injury repair, and identity reconstruction.

3. Repairing the Mission Within: Shame, Relationships & Reintegration

Unresolved guilt, shame, or relational wounds fuel isolation and relapse. This message provides practical tools for shame resilience, relationship repair, emotional safety, and reintegration — especially for high-risk and justice-involved veterans.

If your program wants to strengthen outcomes, reduce relapse risk, and empower veterans to rebuild identity and resilience, invite Garret to deliver a message your team won’t forget.

Higher Education & Student Veterans

Supporting student veterans isn’t just good practice — it strengthens campus culture, boosts retention, and elevates overall student success. When veterans reconnect with confidence, community, and purpose, they bring unmatched leadership and resilience to your institution.

COMMON TOPICS:

1. From Service to Significance: Reinventing Identity & Purpose in Higher Ed

Military transition disrupts belonging, confidence, and meaning. This message helps campuses support student veterans in rebuilding identity, reconnecting with strengths, and translating lived experience into academic and career success.

2. The 3 C’s of Achievement: Confidence, Competence & Capacity for Student Veterans

Veteran students thrive when they have the internal bandwidth to manage stress, challenges, and transitions. This framework equips them — and the professionals who support them — with tools that foster emotional resilience, academic engagement, and long-term success.

3. The CAM Framework for Thriving: Connection, Authenticity & Meaning on Campus

Student veterans often appear integrated while feeling disconnected beneath the surface. This message applies the CAM model to reduce hidden isolation, build trust, strengthen belonging, and improve both well-being and persistence.

If your campus wants to improve student veteran engagement, well-being, and persistence, invite Garret to share a message that inspires growth and delivers tools your team can use immediately.

Corporate & Veteran Workforce Programs

Veterans bring exceptional strengths — but only when their transition challenges are understood and supported. Organizations that invest in veteran-ready cultures see improvements in engagement, retention, productivity, and team cohesion across the entire workforce.

COMMON TOPICS

1. Mission-Ready Potential: Engaging & Empowering Your Veteran Workforce

A practical, strengths-based approach to converting veteran potential into measurable performance. Learn how to translate military skills, reduce hidden friction points, and build a culture where veterans truly thrive.

2. Resilience as a Performance Strategy: Veteran-Informed Tools for Navigating Change

Veteran experience offers powerful lessons on adaptability and composure under pressure. This message helps teams apply these principles to navigate organizational change with clarity, collaboration, and grit.

3. Connection at Work: Reducing Isolation & Strengthening Team Culture

Veterans often appear engaged while masking internal disconnection. This message shows leaders how to build psychologically safe environments that increase trust, authenticity, and collective performance.

If your organization wants stronger engagement, higher retention, and a high-performing veteran workforce, bring Garret in to deliver a message that aligns mission, culture, and potential.

Why Garret?

From navigating the complexities of the military-to-civilian transition to empowering Veterans and their advocates, Garret stands at the forefront of transformative change.

Engaging Delivery Garret's known for his relatable humor, engaging storytelling, and interactive delivery. He ensures your audience doesn’t just listen, but truly experiences every message.

Proven Impact Blending applied positive psychology and practical strategies, Garret empowers attendees to navigate life's challenges with confidence.

Expertise From Experience With an extensive background in human potential training, progream development, and operations in the addiction recovery industry, Garret's insights are grounded in real-world application and proven success.