“His message reinforced the importance of trusted leadership, professional development, and preparing our Soldiers and leaders to operate effectively in an increasingly complex joint environment.”— Roye Locklear, President, AUSA First Militia Chapter
Leadership Keynote Speaker & Executive Advisor
Blake Glass
Author of Trusted Intent
Why People Follow Leaders When It Matters Most
Blake Glass helps leaders build the trust that turns authority into commitment—at work, at home, and when the stakes are real.
Drawing on more than three decades of leadership across combat, national security, business, and family responsibility.
Leadership beyond the battlefield
The stories are shaped by combat, boardrooms, and family life. The lessons apply anywhere a person is entrusted with responsibility for others.
What is trusted intent?
Trusted intent is when people believe a leader’s actions reflect responsibility for the mission and genuine care for the people—never personal gain. When that belief exists, people do more than comply. They commit.
Coming Fall 2026
The Book
Trusted Intent is a story-driven leadership book about why people follow some leaders and merely comply with others. It is not a formula, a checklist, or a theory of heroic leadership. It is a practical exploration of trustworthy leadership through real stories of responsibility, example, sacrifice, accountability, humility, competence, wisdom, failure, and growth.
The lessons are drawn from military command, crisis response, corporate leadership, and family life, but the message is broader than any one field. Leadership exists anywhere people place their trust in someone else.
Built on real stories
The manuscript draws from combat, command, mentorship, mistakes, parenting, and corporate leadership to show what trustworthy leadership actually looks like.
Centered on responsibility
Leadership is not about privilege. It is about carrying responsibility for the mission, the people, and the consequences of your decisions.
Written for work and home
The lessons apply to executives, managers, coaches, teachers, parents, and anyone entrusted with leading other people.
Speaking Topics
Blake Glass speaks on trust, pressure, culture, accountability, and the responsibility leaders carry to inspire commitment at work and at home.
Trusted Intent
Why people follow leaders when it matters most. This keynote explores how leaders build trust long before it is tested, and why intent—not authority—is what ultimately determines whether people commit.
Leadership Under Pressure
Calm, clarity, and decision making when the stakes are real. This keynote examines how leaders stabilize teams, manage emotion, and make better decisions under uncertainty.
The Will to Win
Leadership, culture, and the responsibility to inspire others. This keynote explores how leaders build belief, uphold standards, and create cultures where people want to contribute and win together.
Speaking impact
What Leaders and Audiences Are Saying
Blake’s message is connecting with military, corporate, and professional audiences because it addresses a universal leadership challenge: earning trust before pressure tests it.
“The presentation was mind-blowing! Thank you for the different levels of our involvement and the leadership lessons!”— Pulte Military Veterans Program Participant
About Blake Glass
These principles were not developed in a classroom. They were shaped through decades of leadership in combat, crisis response, business, and family life.
Brigadier General Blake Glass has spent more than three decades as an infantry officer, leading soldiers at every level from platoon through brigade. His experience includes commanding a 5,000-soldier brigade, leading combat operations in Iraq, serving in other hostile environments around the globe, and advising senior leaders during moments of real national security crisis.
Blake serves as a Land Development Manager with PulteGroup’s West Florida Division. He holds a master’s degree in business from the University of Florida and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and has completed executive education at Harvard Kennedy School.
At the center of Blake’s life are his wife, Ashley, and their sons, Jacob and Charlie. They live in Palm Harbor, Florida, and his experience as a husband and father continues to shape how he approaches responsibility, sacrifice, trust, and what it means to lead others well.
Across military command, national security, corporate leadership, and family life, Blake has observed a consistent truth: people follow leaders whose intent they trust when it matters most.
As the author of Trusted Intent, a keynote speaker, and an executive advisor, Blake helps leaders build trust, strengthen culture, and lead with clarity when it matters most.
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