This year’s Leadership Symposium will take place March 19 – 20, 2025, before Spear Summit 2025, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in Orlando, Florida.
Qualified attendees wishing to attend Leadership Symposium must register for Summit first here. VIP members include dental professionals who are currently Spear Navigator, Practice Solutions, or Faculty Club Elite members, Spear Resident Faculty, Spear Visiting Faculty, Spear Study Club Leaders, and CDOCS Mentors and Mentors+.
Presenters: Echelon Front - Jamie Cochran, Chief Operating Officer, and Sean Glass, Instructor
Everyone is a leader, and leadership is a skill. This is what we know to be true at Echelon Front, and teaching everyone the skill of leadership is our mission. The leadership principles that we teach have been put to the test in the harshest of environments – combat. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin wrote the book Extreme Ownership to share those lessons learned in combat with the world, and at Echelon Front, it’s our mission to continue that legacy. This workshop is designed to teach you how to take Extreme Ownership over everything in your world – at work, in your community, and with your family. This instinct we will help you develop is easy to understand, but hard to execute because it goes against your natural human tendency. Effective leadership is counterintuitive, and that’s what makes it so difficult but yet, so rewarding. The leadership skills you will learn about in this workshop are likely not new to you – teamwork, effective communication, prioritizing, empowerment – but our goal is to have you walk away with practical tools you can utilize to start doing those things effectively. However, the foundation that makes all of this work is Extreme Ownership. Leaders who fail to take ownership of problems allow those problems to go unsolved.
But, if you can learn to take Extreme Ownership of everything that impacts your mission, you can Lead and Win.
Jamie Cochran
Chief Operating Officer
Sean Glass
Instructor
Learning Objectives: Participants will learn...
Jamie Cochran joined Leif Babin and Jocko Willink as the first employee at Echelon Front in 2014. She quickly expanded her initial role as Director of Operations and was named Chief Operating Officer in early 2021.
After earning her degree in Business Marketing and Communications, Jamie served in leadership positions in several organizations to include Glacier Bay, a boutique hedge fund as the Client Relations Director; San Diego State University as a Programs Director; and Tiffany & Company as a Visual Creative Director.
At Echelon Front, she leads a diverse team that oversees all business operations and events. Her team also coordinates Echelon Front engagements across the globe, ensuring a world-class client experience. Jamie embraces the mindset of Extreme Ownership and implements it across all aspects of her business and life.
As a speaker and Leadership Instructor, she makes the connection between the combat leadership principles of Extreme Ownership and how she implements them in her life as a business leader, woman, mother of three, and wife of a former Navy SEAL.
Sean Glass is a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, combat leader, and now a leadership instructor with Echelon Front. Sean spent 13 years in the SEAL Teams with three combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Eastern Africa. He led five SEAL platoons in Iraq against Islamic State forces during some of the most dynamic and demanding environments where he saw first-hand the power of leadership on the battlefield. Sean returned from Iraq to serve as Officer-in-Charge of training for all West Coast SEAL Teams where he spearheaded the development of leadership training and personally instructed and mentored the next generation of SEAL leaders.
