Veteran Resilience Speaker & Military Transition Expert
Garret Biss helps organizations, conferences, campuses, recovery programs, and corporate ERGs understand the unseen challenges of military transition and equip Veterans to reconnect with identity, purpose, resilience, and meaning.
Veteran Speaker on Resilience & Transition
Helping audiences understand military transition, identity, resilience, and post-traumatic growth.
Who Books Garret
Garret Biss speaks for conferences, behavioral health organizations, recovery communities, veteran-serving agencies, higher education programs, leadership teams, and corporate Veteran or military-connected ERGs.
Popular topics include veteran resilience, military transition, post-traumatic growth, recovery, identity, connection, authenticity, meaning, leadership, and workplace wellbeing.
Garret is Most Known For
Trainer | Keynote
From the TEDx stage to conferences to the training classroom, Garret is known for his experiential-training style. Blending humor, audience participation, and heartfelt stories, Garret has a talent for inspiring audiences and equipping them for impact and growth.
Award-Winning Author
Through his writing, Garret blends deep personal experience with actionable advice, making complex concepts accessible and engaging. His writing inspires readers to transform their lives, offering pathways to recovery and happiness.
Recovery Coach
As a USMC Veteran, Garret knows what it takes to help Veterans thrive in their life beyond military service. Surviving a dark period of addiction and suicidal thoughts, he's been there and knows how to lead other Veterans back to purpose, passion, and greater success.
Capt. Biss, USMC (Ret.)
Marine Corps veteran, TEDx speaker, author, certified recovery coach, and founder of Diamond Mind Training, Garret Biss brings a rare combination of military leadership, lived recovery experience, and practical resilience education to every audience.
A former Marine Corps officer and KC-130J aircraft commander, Garret now speaks for conferences, organizations, campuses, and professional audiences on veteran resilience, military transition, recovery, identity, purpose, and post-traumatic growth.
The Work Behind the Message
After leaving the Marine Corps, Garret experienced the anxiety, depression, substance misuse, and identity loss that many Veterans face after military service. What looked from the outside like a successful transition became his private struggle to rebuild his sense of belonging, purpose, professional identity, and emotional stability.
His recovery became the foundation for a larger mission and a body of work focused on connection, authenticity, meaning, resilience, and post-traumatic growth. Today, Garret helps audiences understand that transition is not only a logistical process. It is often a profound human disruption that, with the right support, can become a pathway to renewed identity, contribution, and growth.
His message is centered on one belief: when Veterans are equipped with the right tools and supported by informed leaders, they bring unmatched dedication, resilience, and purpose to every environment they enter.
When Veterans thrive, the environments around them benefit.
Signature Speaking & Training Topics
From campuses to workplaces to recovery programs, Garret brings insight and tools that help Veterans reconnect with purpose, resilience, and post-service potential.
Veteran resilience and military transition
Post-traumatic growth after trauma and adversity
Recovery, identity, and meaning after addiction
Connection, authenticity, and meaning as foundations for wellbeing
Reconnection, regulation, and resilience
Veteran-informed leadership and workplace belonging
Supporting Veterans in recovery, higher education, and justice settings
Turning lived experience into purpose, contribution, and growth
Trusted by Professional Audiences Nationwide
Garret has spoken for conferences, associations, recovery communities, veteran-serving organizations, higher education programs, and leadership audiences across the country.
Trusted by Professional Audiences Nationwide
Garret has spoken for conferences, associations, recovery communities, veteran-serving organizations, higher education programs, and leadership audiences across the country.
Additional Audiences & Partners
Additional Audiences & Partners
Additional audiences and partners include behavioral health organizations, recovery communities, professional associations, veteran-serving organizations, higher education programs, corporate ERGs, and leadership audiences nationwide.
Supporting Veterans in Every CLIME & PLACE
When Veterans are equipped with the right tools and supported by informed leaders, they bring unmatched dedication, resilience, and innovation to any environment. But when the transition from service is misunderstood—or when internal struggles go unseen—Veterans may show only a fraction of their true potential.
This isn’t a lack of ability; it’s a lack of alignment, understanding, and culturally informed support.
Garret helps organizations, campuses, and behavioral health programs bridge that gap.
Through strengths-based, trauma-informed insight, he equips teams to better understand the Veteran experience, reduce invisible barriers, and cultivate conditions that enable Veterans to contribute at their best.
When Veterans thrive, the environments around them benefit.
What others are saying about Garret
TESTIMONIALS
Books by Garret Biss
Garret is the author of books on recovery, happiness, fulfillment, generosity, and personal growth.
Recovery Workbook
A practical workbook for recovery, reflection, and personal growth.
Happiness & Fulfillment
A framework for reconnecting with peace, purpose, and fulfillment.
Kindness & Generosity
A reflection on giving, contribution, and the hidden benefits of service.
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