Build Better Leaders. Create Stronger Teams. Thrive in Chaos.
Otis McGregor is a leadership and executive coach, author, speaker, podcast host, project management trainer, retired Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel, rugby coach, and founder of Tribe and Purpose.
Drawing from 25 years in Army Special Operations, executive leadership, business development, project management, coaching, and entrepreneurship, Otis helps leaders and teams navigate chaos, make better choices, and build organizations that succeed under pressure.
Founder, Tribe + Purpose | Retired Green Beret LTC | Leadership & Executive Coach | Inventor, Pocket Litter | Author of Enable Your Team’s Success | Co-Host, 10X Your Team with Cam & Otis
Practical Leadership for Real-World Pressure
Leadership is easy to talk about when everything is calm. It matters most when things are uncertain, uncomfortable, and chaotic.
Otis McGregor has spent his career leading, coaching, and building teams in environments where clarity, discipline, communication, and trust are not optional. From Army Special Operations to business strategy, government contracting, rugby coaching, executive coaching, and project management training, Otis brings a practical, no-nonsense approach to leadership development.
His keynotes and workshops help audiences understand what leadership really requires: better choices, stronger habits, clearer thinking, and the willingness to do the work that is rarely glamorous but always necessary.
What Otis Helps Audiences Do
Thrive in Chaos
Leadership does not require perfect conditions. Otis helps people and teams make decisions, stay grounded, and keep moving when the situation is uncertain, complex, or changing fast.
Lead Without the Hype
Real leadership is not always exciting, visible, or glamorous. Otis teaches the practical, consistent, often unsexy work that creates trust, performance, and long-term success.
Choose With Purpose
You may not control every circumstance, but you do get to choose how you respond, how you lead, what you prioritize, and who you become through the process.
Featured Keynotes & Workshops
Thrive in Chaos
Leadership, Clarity, and Decision-Making When Conditions Are Uncertain
Chaos is not the exception. In leadership, business, teams, and life, chaos is often the environment you are asked to operate in.
In this keynote or workshop, Otis helps audiences understand how to lead when the plan changes, the pressure rises, and the path forward is unclear. Drawing from Army Special Operations, business leadership, coaching, and project management, Otis gives leaders practical tools for staying grounded, making decisions, communicating clearly, and helping their teams keep moving.
Best For
- Leadership teams
- Executives and managers
- Small businesses
- Project teams
- Veteran groups
- Emergency response or high-pressure teams
- Entrepreneurs
- Organizations navigating change
Audience Takeaways
Participants will learn how to:
- Stay calm and clear when conditions change
- Make better decisions under pressure
- Communicate priorities in chaotic environments
- Create structure without becoming rigid
- Help teams move forward when the full picture is not available
- Build confidence through preparation, discipline, and action
Available Formats
- 30–45 minute keynote
- 60–120 minute workshop
- Leadership training session
- Virtual or in-person
Leadership Isn’t Sexy
The Consistent, Unglamorous Work That Creates Real Success
Leadership is often marketed as charisma, big speeches, bold visions, and public recognition. But most of the work that actually builds successful teams is not flashy.
It is listening. Following up. Setting expectations. Having hard conversations. Preparing. Communicating. Building trust. Developing people. Doing the small things consistently when nobody is applauding.
In this session, Otis cuts through the hype and helps audiences understand what leadership really requires. Drawing from Special Operations, business, coaching, and years developing leaders, he shows why the boring, consistent work is often what separates strong leaders from loud ones.
Best For
- Emerging leaders
- Managers
- Executives
- Business owners
- Military and veteran audiences
- Project managers
- Coaches
- Leadership development programs
Audience Takeaways
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand the difference between leadership image and leadership impact
- Build trust through consistency
- Communicate expectations clearly
- Do the hard conversations instead of avoiding them
- Develop people through habits, not slogans
- Lead with discipline when motivation fades
Available Formats
- 30–45 minute keynote
- 60–120 minute workshop
- Leadership development session
- Virtual or in-person
You Get to Choose
Ownership, Response, and the Leadership Power of Choice
You do not always get to choose the situation. You do not always get to choose the timing, the challenge, the setback, or the people around you.
But you do get to choose your response.
In this keynote or workshop, Otis helps audiences understand choice as a leadership discipline. Whether someone is leading a team, navigating transition, building a business, or working through adversity, the ability to pause, own the response, and choose the next action is one of the most important leadership skills they can develop.
Best For
- Leaders and managers
- Students and young professionals
- Veteran and transition groups
- Entrepreneurs
- Men’s groups
- Teams navigating change
- Personal development events
- Community organizations
Audience Takeaways
Participants will learn how to:
- Take ownership without making excuses
- Separate circumstances from response
- Make choices aligned with values and purpose
- Build discipline around daily decisions
- Lead themselves before leading others
- Turn setbacks into moments of intentional action
Available Formats
- 30–45 minute keynote
- 60–120 minute workshop
- Fireside chat
- Virtual or in-person
Life Is a Test
Preparation, Pressure, and Becoming the Person the Moment Requires
Life does not usually announce the important tests ahead of time. Pressure, adversity, leadership moments, transition, and opportunity often arrive before we feel ready.
In this session, Otis explores what it means to prepare for life’s tests before they arrive. Drawing from military service, coaching, business, family, and leadership development, he helps audiences understand how discipline, values, habits, and purpose shape the way they respond when the moment comes.
Best For
- Leadership events
- Student groups
- Veteran groups
- Men’s groups
- Teams under pressure
- Coaches and athletic organizations
- Young professionals
- Faith or community groups
Audience Takeaways
Participants will learn how to:
- Prepare for pressure before it arrives
- Build habits that hold up under stress
- Understand adversity as a test of values and preparation
- Lead with purpose when the outcome is uncertain
- Develop resilience through consistent daily action
- Become the person the moment requires
Available Formats
- 30–45 minute keynote
- 60–120 minute workshop
- Team session
- Virtual or in-person
Better Leaders Create Better Organizations
Otis McGregor is the founder of Tribe + Purpose and a leadership and executive coach with deep experience across military service, business development, project management, coaching, and team performance.
He retired from the U.S. Army in 2009 as a Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel after 25 years of service. His military experience included Army Special Operations, counter-terrorism units in Iraq and Afghanistan, Arctic conditions in Alaska, and NATO Special Operations Headquarters. He has been part of building high-performing organizations from the ground up and brings that experience into his work with leaders, businesses, and teams today.
After retiring from the Army, Otis worked as a Business Development Manager, Director, and Chief Strategy Officer for multiple companies. In 2009, he founded LTO Enterprises to help businesses win government contracts, later rebranding the company as Tribe + Purpose in 2021.
Otis is a certified business performance coach, certified professional coach, certified project director and trainer through the Institute of Project Management, USA Rugby Level 300 Coach, and author of Enable Your Team’s Success. He is also the inventor of The Pocket Litter, a practical leadership and planning tool designed to help people stay aligned with what matters.
At the center of Otis’s work is a simple belief: better leaders create better organizations, better organizations create better communities, and better communities create a better world.
His speaking style is direct, practical, experienced, and grounded in real-world leadership. He helps audiences cut through the noise, take ownership, and do the work required to lead well.
