MEET BRIAN
Brian has been fortunate to work in a wide range of high-performance organizations, learning from leaders and decision-makers in national security, the military, and technology.
The first part of Brian’s career was spent working as a civilian in national security primarily in the policy-making component of Office of the Secretary of Defense. During those years, he was exposed to how a large, complex organization wrestled with evolutions in speed-of-information, decision-making, and new technology.
After the Pentagon, Brian served in special operations. Aside from his duties at the tactical level, he worked with senior leaders to understand the impact of accelerating technology on the modern battlefield and was exposed to Singularity University, where would later attend the Executive Program.
He found a passion at the intersection of emerging technology and human performance, going on to contribute in building several innovation and emerging technology efforts across national security.
Brian remains engaged in these ideas and speaks around the world to companies grappling with the impact of technology on the future of medicine, leadership, energy, or strategy.
Brian’s work around technology and change led him to a realization that with such rapid change, most of us are also struggling with how we make the world around us less complex. He attended the Santa Fe Institute on Complexity’s Summer Program and continues to work at SFI on complexity theory and its effects on organizations, human performance, and 21st century thinking.
Today, he is the Founder & CEO of Arena Labs, a company that specializes in High Performance Medicine. Arena Labs works with a wide range of hospitals and surgical teams to bridge the “first principles of high performance” with unique technology for training stress, anxiety and decision making in complex, demanding surgical environments. Arena Labs focuses across cardiac care, trauma, neurosurgery and any high-risk, high-stress component of modern medicine.
Brian received an MSc from The London School of Economics and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Pacific Council on International Policy. He advises several companies across technology, agriculture, and defense. He and his wife Lindsay are both proud Midwesterners who now live in San Clemente, California.
