Leadership Development News

Matthew is a 25-year veteran of our armed forces having spent over 20 years in Naval Special Warfare (NSW) operating as a Special Warfare Combatant Crewman (SWCC). He has earned the title of Senior Enlisted Advisor working his way up the ranks in Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) leading and training the top 2% SEALS and SWCCs in NSW as well as being directly responsible for acquiring, developing, testing and fielding state-of-the-art equipment, weapons, tactics, techniques and procedures. We are all living in a Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic, and Ambiguous (VUCA) environment. Our brains are hard-wired for hard times, and much of hard times have been translated into human experience and shared within society, we are survival-focused. We are almost always in a state of situational awareness. Hyper-awareness and hyper-sensitivity to awareness can lead to changes in the brain which impact how we view the world and make decisions. These decisions create our own environment, and our brain creates chan