Garret Biss
TEDx, USMC (Ret.), MRED, CPRC
NC, USGarret helps audiences understand the human side of military transition, equipping leaders, campuses, ERGs, and Veteran-serving organizations with practical tools for connection, identity, resilience, recovery, and post-traumatic growth.
Virtual | Hybrid | In-Person Presentations Available
Garret Biss is a Veteran resilience speaker, retired Marine Corps officer, TEDx speaker, author, and certified recovery coach who helps audiences understand the human side of military transition.
After serving as a Marine Corps KC-130J Aircraft Commander, Garret experienced firsthand how leaving the military can disrupt identity, belonging, purpose, and emotional well-being. His work now helps organizations see beyond the surface of Veteran transition and better understand what happens when capable, disciplined, mission-driven people lose the structure, clarity, and community that once organized their lives.
Garret speaks for conferences, corporate Veteran ERGs, higher education programs, recovery communities, behavioral health audiences, justice-involved Veteran programs, and military-connected organizations. His message is practical, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and deeply human.
Rather than presenting Veterans as broken, Garret helps audiences recognize the strengths Veterans bring — discipline, resilience, leadership, adaptability, responsibility, and service — while also understanding the hidden transition challenges that can affect engagement, recovery, relationships, confidence, and long-term growth.
Garret is the creator of the CAM Framework™ — Connection, Authenticity, and Meaning — a strengths-based model for helping Veterans rebuild belonging, identity, purpose, and resilience after service. His presentations blend lived experience, Marine Corps leadership, applied positive psychology, recovery insight, humor, storytelling, and immediately usable tools.
Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of Veteran transition, practical language for supporting Veterans more effectively, and a renewed belief that growth is possible beyond survival, compliance, or simply “getting by.”
Garret’s programs are especially relevant for Veterans events, military-connected employee resource groups, student Veteran programs, behavioral health and recovery conferences, Veteran Treatment Court teams, leadership audiences, and organizations that want to create conditions where Veterans and the people who support them can thrive.
Virtual | Hybrid | In-Person Presentations Available
Garret Biss is a Veteran resilience speaker, retired Marine Corps officer, TEDx speaker, author, and certified recovery coach who helps audiences understand the human side of military transition.
After serving as a Marine Corps KC-130J Aircraft Commander, Garret experienced firsthand how leaving the military can disrupt identity, belonging, purpose, and emotional well-being. His work now helps organizations see beyond the surface of Veteran transition and better understand what happens when capable, disciplined, mission-driven people lose the structure, clarity, and community that once organized their lives.
Garret speaks for conferences, corporate Veteran ERGs, higher education programs, recovery communities, behavioral health audiences, justice-involved Veteran programs, and military-connected organizations. His message is practical, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and deeply human.
Rather than presenting Veterans as broken, Garret helps audiences recognize the strengths Veterans bring — discipline, resilience, leadership, adaptability, responsibility, and service — while also understanding the hidden transition challenges that can affect engagement, recovery, relationships, confidence, and long-term growth.
Garret is the creator of the CAM Framework™ — Connection, Authenticity, and Meaning — a strengths-based model for helping Veterans rebuild belonging, identity, purpose, and resilience after service. His presentations blend lived experience, Marine Corps leadership, applied positive psychology, recovery insight, humor, storytelling, and immediately usable tools.
Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of Veteran transition, practical language for supporting Veterans more effectively, and a renewed belief that growth is possible beyond survival, compliance, or simply “getting by.”
Garret’s programs are especially relevant for Veterans events, military-connected employee resource groups, student Veteran programs, behavioral health and recovery conferences, Veteran Treatment Court teams, leadership audiences, and organizations that want to create conditions where Veterans and the people who support them can thrive.
The Human Side of Military Transition: Veteran Resilience, Identity & Growth
45–60 minute keynote | 60–90 minute workshop | Half-day training available
Military transition is often described as a career change, but for many Veterans it is also a disruption of identity, belonging, mission, structure, and purpose.
This program helps audiences understand what may...
The CAM Framework™: Connection, Authenticity & Meaning for Veteran Wellness
60–90 minute keynote or workshop | 2–3 hour training available
The CAM Framework™ — Connection, Authenticity, and Meaning — is Garret Biss’s strengths-based model for understanding Veteran wellness, military transition, recovery, identity reconstruction, and post-service growth.
This...
From Service to Significance: Supporting Student Veterans and Veteran-Ready Campuses
45–75 minute keynote | 60–90 minute staff training | Half-day workshop available
Student Veterans often bring discipline, maturity, leadership, responsibility, and lived experience to campus. Yet many also navigate identity loss, reduced belonging, academic uncertainty, invisible stress, family responsibilities, and the challenge of translating...
Mission-Ready Potential: Veteran Resilience, Belonging & Workforce Engagement
45–75 minute keynote | 60–90 minute ERG session | Leadership workshop available
Veterans bring leadership, discipline, adaptability, mission focus, resilience, and a strong sense of responsibility to the workplace. But when military transition is misunderstood, those strengths can become hidden beneath disconnection, frustration,...
Beyond Compliance: Veteran Recovery, Reintegration & Post-Traumatic Growth
60–90 minute keynote or training | 2–3 hour professional workshop available
Veterans navigating recovery, behavioral health challenges, or justice involvement often carry more than the behavior visible on the surface. Identity loss, isolation, moral injury, shame, emotional suppression, substance use, relational wounds, and loss of purpose can...
