Ben Pronk DSC
Former SAS Commanding Officer | Keynote Speaker on Leadership, Resilience and Crisis Management | Author of ‘The Resilience Shield – SAS Resilience Techniques to Master Your Mindset & Overcome Adversity’ | Author of ‘We are all Going to Die – Practical Happiness for the Time You Have Left’
TOPICS
- The Resilience Shield – SAS Techniques to Master Your Mindset & Overcome Adversity. Available as a 90-min Keynote, Half Day Workshop, Retreat or Online Program). This session provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of the Resilience Shield model. Woven throughout with vignettes from the authors' experiences on the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone, it will provide participants with: a deeper understanding of the constituent elements of resilience and stress, an overview of the Resilience Shield model - an evidence-based and academically proven model of robust global resilience, practical and immediately actionable tools to begin strengthening individual resilience, methodologies and awareness to assist leaders in developing individual and collective resilience within their teams
- Practical Happiness for the time you have left (Keynote) - In this keynote, Ben shares an incredible range of perspectives on what builds happiness, blending his own hard-won experience with ideas ranging from the ancient philosophers to the modern neuroscientists, from the psychologists to the dreamers. With warmth and wit, Ben synthesises what humankind’s greatest minds have to say on the topic of how to live your best life in the shadow of the unavoidable. This keynote doesn’t just offer a reminder of that fact, but it also arms the audience with a whole raft of practical and sustainable methods of building real happiness in the short time we all have left. Let’s make you happy – there’s no time to waste!
Biography
Ben Pronk considers himself a pretty happy guy. Born into a stable family in an amazing country, and blessed with a good upbringing and education, he spent 24 years in the Australian Army, the majority of which was in the Special Air Service Regiment (SAS).
During this time, he saw operational service in Timor Leste, Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for leadership in combat, before finishing his military service as the Commanding Officer of the SAS.
He then started a premium consultancy providing leadership and crisis management solutions to clients globally and became Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management, where he delivers a range of leadership programs, including within Australia’s top-ranked MBA program.
In 2021, he co-authored the bestselling book ‘The Resilience Shield’, which has allowed him to travel the world to help an incredibly diverse range of audiences understand and improve their resilience.
And on top of all of that, he has somehow managed to find and keep my amazing wife, with whom he is raising two brilliant children.
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