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.)
Veteran, TEDX Speaker, Award-winning Author, and Respected Thought-Leader in the Addiction Recovery Industry, Garret Biss is a highly-sought speaker and trainer for diverse audiences from national conference stages to the board room.
An esteemed speaker and storyteller, Garret's message blends engineering precision with innovation and military leadership to inspire change and offer practical solutions to complex challenges.
GARRET BISS USMC (Ret.)
Garret Biss is a Marine Corps veteran, TEDx speaker, award-winning author, certified recovery coach, and respected voice in veteran resilience, military transition, and addiction recovery.
After serving as a Marine Corps officer and pilot, Garret faced the disorientation, anxiety, depression, substance use, and loss of identity that many Veterans experience after leaving the military. His recovery became the foundation for a larger mission: helping Veterans, professionals, and organizations understand the human impact of transition and rebuild lives around connection, authenticity, meaning, and post-traumatic growth.
Today, Garret speaks for conferences, campuses, recovery organizations, behavioral health providers, justice programs, and corporate ERGs, blending lived experience, applied positive psychology, leadership insight, and practical tools audiences can use immediately.
His work is centered on elevating Veterans to their highest potential for happiness, well-being, success, and contribution.
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
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.
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BOOKS by Garret Biss
FIRST STEPS to Thriving in Recovery™
A practical workbook for recovery, reflection, and personal growth.
FIRST STEPS to Thriving in Recovery™ helps readers move beyond the pain of the past and begin building a more intentional future. Written as a workbook, it offers practical prompts and reflection exercises for people navigating addiction recovery, emotional healing, and life after hardship.
This book is especially relevant for readers seeking structure, self-awareness, and a strengths-based path toward recovery, resilience, and renewed purpose.
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The Spheres Approach to Happiness and Fulfillment
A framework for reconnecting with peace, purpose, and fulfillment
The Spheres Approach to Happiness and Fulfillment explores how people can improve wellbeing by examining the beliefs, habits, relationships, expectations, and patterns shaping their lives.
This award-winning book reflects Garret’s broader work in positive psychology, recovery, resilience, and human potential, offering readers a practical way to think about happiness as something cultivated through awareness, alignment, and intentional action.
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Charity: The Gifts of Giving
A reflection on kindness, generosity, and contribution
Charity: The Gifts of Giving invites readers to look beyond charity as a financial act and explore generosity as a way of living. The book examines how kindness, service, contribution, and intentional giving can transform both the giver and the recipient.
A Readers’ Favorite award-winning book, Charity reflects Garret’s long-standing interest in meaning, human connection, and the hidden benefits of living in service to others.
"This book...will transform your appreciation for charity and the act of giving."
- Jack Canfield, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
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