Bryan S.
Founder - CEO - Board Director | Veteran | Leadership Coach
Studied at The Ohio State University
Works at hdohealth
Available tomorrow at 11:00 AM UTC
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Experience level: Executive
100+ people coached for Leadership Development
Welcome to my profile! With a rich background in leadership and strategic consulting, I am passionate about helping individuals and organizations unlock their full potential. As a Speaker and Author at The Leadership Seed™, I have guided over 100 clients in developing their leadership skills to make a lasting impact. My experience spans across various advisory and board roles, including at Harvard Business Review and The Private Directors Association, where I have honed my expertise in executive leadership and market development. Let's work together to cultivate your leadership abilities and achieve your goals. Reach out to start your journey towards excellence!
Bryan can help with:
Conflict Resolution
Change Management
Ethical Leadership
Diversity and Inclusion
Problem Solving
Emotional Intelligence
Coaching and Mentoring
Time Management
Innovation and Creativity
Bryan also coaches for Career Development, Entrepreneurship, and Business Strategy & Operations. View all.
About Bryan
Leadership. Character. Results.™ Founder | CEO | Executive Leadership Coach | Board Member | Veteran | Author | Speaker I’m an entrepreneur, executive coach, and leadership development expert passionate about helping executives, entrepreneurs, transitioning veterans, and high-potential leaders discover, nurture, and grow their leadership potential to create a lasting impact and life legacy of service and significance. My coaching approach blends strategic insights, practical expertise, and hard-learned lessons learned from leading in the military and global organizations of all types and sizes. I’ve been privileged to lead, serve, and guide hundreds of senior leaders, executives, emerging talent, and transitioning veterans toward greater leadership and life success. Areas of Focus: ➺ Building executive presence and communication ➺ Leading high-performance teams with humility ➺ Strategic thinking and decision-making ➺ Building and sustaining innovative cultures of gratitude ➺ Navigating complex organizational change ➺ Developing emotional intelligence ➺ Navigating career and life transitions As a former military officer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur, I bring a diverse background spanning healthcare, medical devices, and entrepreneurial ventures and over two decades of leadership experience to my coaching practice. My passion, purpose, and life mission is to serve others well as a facilitator, guide, and catalyst for growth and meaningful change. With deep experience as a leader, entrepreneur, mentor, and coach, and credentials in private company governance, private equity (PE) portfolio governance, and ESOP essentials by the Private Directors Association (PDA), I bring a deep understanding of leadership, governance, strategy, operations, risk management, communication, and entrepreneurial dynamics to every coaching engagement. Let's connect and explore how I can partner with and serve you to help you drive your leadership journey forward. 🌱
Why do I coach?
My coaching philosophy centers on practical wisdom, strategic insight, and a commitment to unlocking each client's unique potential. I specialize in guiding emerging leaders and seasoned executives through decision-making, strategic planning, and team development, always with a touch of humor to keep the journey engaging. Whether you're aiming to define your leadership path or seeking strategies to overcome current challenges, I'm here to provide clarity, accountability, and actionable plans tailored to your goals. Let's work together to transform your leadership aspirations into impactful results.
Work Experience
Board Member
Compass Point Health
November 2024 - Present
CompassPoint Health is on a mission to bring affordable, high-quality healthcare to rural and underserved communities.
Advisory Council Member
Harvard Business Review
August 2024 - Present
As a member of the HBR Advisory Council, I help improve the content published and chart future direction and research efforts. I provide feedback to the editors, preview new content, and weigh in on ideas from HBR as well as those from the wider world of management and leadership. Entrepreneurship, Executive Leadership and +3 skills
Board Advisor
Remento
March 2023 - Present
Remento makes it easier than ever to better understand and more deeply appreciate your family story through recorded conversations with a family member. The Remento iOS mobile app recommends conversation prompts crafted by professional storytellers, neuroscientists, and memory researchers designed to uncover precious memories of a loved one’s past. Once captured, stories from these sessions are showcased directly in a private Remento library, from where they can be easily shared without any fancy editing or processing. Whether it's reflections on monumental moments or the joys of everyday life, Remento helps break down barriers across generations, breed connection through curiosity, and remind us that understanding our own story starts by listening to the stories of others. B2C, B2C Marketing and +9 skills
Founder and CEO
hdohealth
June 2021 - Present
HDO Health™ is a medical device company dedicated to bringing innovative, lifesaving, cost-effective technologies to the world. Our first product, the Journiquet™, is a specialty tourniquet device designed to help prevent people from bleeding to death from traumatic junctional wounds (where the leg meets the groin) and to help stabilize pelvic fractures. Our team is uniquely qualified to solve this problem. We collectively have nearly 100 years of business, medical device, biomedical engineering, healthcare, operations, emergency medicine, critical care, military, law enforcement, and tactical medicine experience. Our team includes a former USMC infantry officer with 30+ years of commercial healthcare leadership, including multiple Founder, CEO, and Board roles; a physician and surgeon with 30+ years of experience in critical care, emergency medicine, and as a SWAT medic; a law enforcement officer with 22+ years of experience including 16+ years in SWAT and 15+ years as a tactical medic; and a Ph.D. biomedical engineering professor with 13+ years of academic and professional experience. Bleeding to death is the leading cause of preventable deaths, including 90% of combat fatalities and 40% of civilian fatalities. Nearly 20% of all those deaths are due to bleeding at the torso-appendage junction. Unfortunately, the currently available products have limitations including multiple parts requiring assembly, user training and fine motor movements to apply effectively, a lengthy total time of deployment, and a high rate of device displacement during patient transport. The HDO Health Journiquet™ is a novel, class II, non-sterile, non-invasive, single-use medical device designed to stop junctional bleeding quickly and effectively. It saves time and can rapidly be applied effectively in high-stress combat and trauma environments. Strategy, Medical Devices and +9 skills
Board Member
The Private Directors Association
March 2021 - Present
The Private Directors Association® strives to help private companies create, enhance and professionalize their boards while developing and promoting talented, experienced, and diverse board candidates. Our mission is to help you achieve your mission. The organization was founded in 2014 and now has more than 2,500 members and 18 chapters. Elected to a 3 year board term in 2024. Founding President of the former Alabama chapter. Private Equity, Founder and +9 skills
Speaker & Author
The Leadership Seed
March 2020 - Present
At The Leadership Seed™, we partner with individuals, teams, and organizations to discover, nurture, and grow their leadership potential to lead with excellence and make a positive and lasting impact. Strategic Consulting, Human Capital and +11 skills
Founder and CEO
The Leadership Seed
March 2020 - Present
At The Leadership Seed™, we partner with individuals, teams, and organizations to discover, nurture, and grow their leadership potential to lead with excellence and make a positive and lasting impact.
Director
Victory Strategies
March 2021 - April 2024
Victory Strategies is a leadership development firm comprised of elite practitioners, such as Elite Military Members, Fortune 500 Executives, High Impact Entrepreneurs, and Top Performing Athletes. We improve organizational culture, alignment, and efficiency through leadership development training and team engagement.
Chief Executive Officer
Golden Victory Medical
November 2021 - June 2022
Led this integrated healthcare company that provided primary care, internal medicine, women's health, and behavioral health services through a network of stand-alone clinics in multiple states. * Recruited to become the 1st external CEO by the owners to bring professionalism, structure, process, and leadership to a newly formed network of acquired practices and position the company for future growth through optimizing current operations and building a framework for additional acquisitions and successful integrations
Chief Executive Officer
PracticeWise
August 2018 - March 2021
I served as the 1st CEO of PracticeWise to bring process, structure, and innovative thinking to a company co-founded and owned by Ph.D. child psychology researchers. The programs and products at PracticeWise are deeply rooted and supported in research and in the peer-reviewed literature and have proven successful in multiple implementations over the past 15 years.
Principal Growth and Strategy Consultant
Sage Growth Partners
May 2017 - August 2018
Served as a Principal Consultant leading client engagements focused on growth strategy development and deployment for healthcare clients. I led client engagements and teams focused on the deep understanding of client needs, market dynamics, and the development of pragmatic strategies and solutions that will drive and sustain growth.
Bryan was also given offers to work at
Medtronic
Biomet
Humana
Healogics
PracticeWise
Ventana Medical Systems
Abbott
Education
The Ohio State University
BS, Consumer Economics
Activities and societies: NROTC, Student Alumni Council (SAC), Undergraduate Student Government, Semper Fidelis Society Naval ROTC Scholarship recipient. I served as Vice President and President of the Undergraduate College Student Government. I was active as a Student Alumni Council student ambassador/speaker that traveled with University leaders to speak at multiple Alumni events. I served as President of the Semper Fidelis Society (Marine Corps focused service and social organization) and as the NROTC unit Executive Officer. I also worked part-time at the OSU Athletic Department. Entrepreneurship
The Wharton School (UPenn)
Executive Marketing Leadership and Market Development Program
Medtronic Sponsored Marketing Leadership & Market Development Executive Education Programs Entrepreneurship
Webster University
MBA