Alden Mills
Former Navy SEAL Platoon Commander, Co-founder/Inc 500 CEO of Perfect Fitness & Author of Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
Alden Mills is on a mission to help 100 million people Be Unstoppable. With more than 40 years of experience failing and succeeding in a vast array of different environments from sports, military, and business to nonprofits and community action groups, he learned success is driven by one vital factor – leadership – of oneself and others.
The first person Alden learned to lead was himself. As a weak child with asthma, doctors insisted he limit physical activity and avoid sports. Instead, with the mindset instilled in him by his mother that “no one defines what you can and can’t do, but you,” he went on to become a National Collegiate Champion rower, earning Gold and Silver medals at the Olympic Festival, and a Navy SEAL who was top of his class. From a young age he amassed notebooks of invention drawings. One of those ideas became the wildly popular Perfect Pushup and today he holds over 40 patents worldwide.
As Alden achieved personal successes, he repeatedly grew into leadership positions. He became captain of his collegiate rowing team, was promoted three times to Navy SEAL platoon commander, and ranked #1 platoon commander each time. He turned a single invention into a global fitness powerhouse in over 70 countries with multiple products, leading Perfect Fitness to become the fastest-growing consumer product company in the country, with over $95 million in sales in just three years. He has since founded and served on multiple companies’ boards in retail hard goods, consumable products, and service-based businesses.
Along the way, Alden cultivated a methodology - Unstoppable Leadership – that develops people into congruent and authentic leaders who successfully build teams and create cultures that are unstoppable regardless of the situation, industry, or environment.
Today Alden Mills is known as one of the leading business thinkers in America and spends his time helping others learn and implement the three levels of Unstoppable Leadership. Through speaking, coaching, writing, board advisory, and teaching, Alden helps people acquire the mindset, tools, and actions required to accomplish more than they thought was possible.
UNSTOPPABLE MINDSET: THE MENTALITY AND TOOLS FOR ACHIEVING YOUR FULL POTENTIAL
With over 40 years of experience overcoming challenges in business and life, Alden Mills brings a unique perspective on what it means to be unstoppable at accomplishing more than was thought possible. We all have natural obstacles in our path. When we learn to conquer those obstacles, we realize that our biggest obstacle is our mindset. The challenge is understanding how to harness the very things we can control to help us find the success we seek.
This keynote dives into the key differentiator of success stopping us from reaching and surpassing potential -- an Unstoppable Mindset. Alden weaves together riveting stories, inspiration, and practical tools to teach the Mindset Fundamentals to become unstoppable, regardless of industry, environment, or situation. Much more than just a motivational experience, he shares a system that enables people to tackle tough challenges, use change to their advantage, and seize bold opportunities time and time again.
UNSTOPPABLE TEAMS: THE ACTIONS AND STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING AND LEADING HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS
As Alden Mills advanced from personal success to leading teams in sports, military, business, and nonprofits, he learned group success is determined by a leader's ability to build and lead teams. Whether a team is formed remotely or in-person, by mandate or inheritance, formally or organically, team leaders exist to bridge the gap between the outcomes sought and the team that can achieve them.
This keynote explores the universal leadership essentials to build high-performing Unstoppable Teams that continuously surpass what they set out to achieve. Alden demonstrates how leaders can drive greater alignment, trust, and outsized contributions. He shares the five phases of unstoppable team development and the key actions to implement each phase. Using his C.A.R.E. Loop, he provides a roadmap to activate and effectively turn groups of individuals into Unstoppable Teams.
UNSTOPPABLE CULTURE: THE PRACTICES AND ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR ENDURING ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS
Following the initial success of Perfect Fitness, Alden Mills and his team lost their way. Laser-focused on growth and profit, the company began to falter. To get back on track and ensure ongoing success, they regrouped and established a prominent culture.
This keynote details how stakeholders in senior leadership and human resources build an Unstoppable Culture to drive lasting employee engagement, competitive advantage, and outsized growth. Through personal stories, checklists, and live exercises, Alden shows how to close culture gaps by building intentional structure, dynamic practices, and congruent values that leaders and teams apply together -- day after day, week after week. Attendees learn the behaviors and tools that create an Unstoppable Culture by embedding the three Ps–Promise, People, and Process - a practical three-part framework to close the gap between an organization's existing culture and activating what he calls the 10x Advantage to create an Unstoppable Culture.
Very engaging like he was standing in your home office. Alden left the sales team highly motivated. Can’t wait for the next opportunity to have him back–in-person or via Zoom.
Exactly what we needed. Alden not only embodied being unstoppable, he inspired it in each of us. We are still unstoppable today! Alden, you made a difference in our lives!
Alden was an incredible addition to our sales kickoff meeting. He invested time to learn our business and delivered a compelling narrative that connected with everyone who had the privilege to watch him. But it wasn’t just what he said, his delivery was also impeccable and drew everyone in. This is difficult to do in a virtual environment, but Alden did so masterfully. I would recommend him for any event, but make sure you invest the time to brief him properly so you get the full benefit of his bespoke service and your audience walks away ready to roll.
One of the main concerns I’ve had as a conference planner in 2020 is how a keynote speaker will deliver their message in a virtual environment. Fear no more, Alden Mill’s virtual delivery was top notch. He had our audience of higher education leaders fully engaged. Because of the pandemic, our people were thrown into leading remote workers. Alden didn’t hesitate to change his topic to focus on remote leadership techniques. Through sharing his experiences our community had fun, learned new leadership practices, and were inspired to be better leaders.
Alden Mills was an incredibly inspirational and dynamic speaker sharing his unbelievable journey in becoming a Navy SEAL. He incorporated our meeting themes into his material. And he transferred his experiences into great relevant business and life lessons. Alden really connected with our team of over 1,000 salespeople.
Alden was a true professional, and a joy to work with—from pre-call to his keynote to a private dinner event. He’s the best storyteller I’ve ever heard and he ties powerful takeaways to his stories. Alden delivered a keynote perfectly-tailored to our organization—from using our language to relating his stories to the challenges we face along with a framework to use on Monday morning. I highly recommend him!
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