I’m Brian McAleer,
CEO of Gent Life. 

I wasn’t always a confident corporate employee or well-dressed business developer. I was a scared kid searching for a sense of belonging and significance growing up just outside of New York City.  Never the best grades, garb or grit. Nor did I have solid control of my emotions and mind. Sound familiar? Being picked on physically, verbally with occasional family tension through early adolescence seems like a prerequisite to real life, right?

Yet somehow, I earned a degree from Cornell University, competed as a world-wide hockey player and climbed the corporate ladder at one of entertainments biggest brands, iHeartRadio. The experiences (or should I say experiments) I’ve had along the way have transcended the value of any Ivy League degree one could achieve.

How to fit in and more importantly, how to stand out, became clear with time, observation and strong advice from an evolving network of personal & career relationships. Learning about the sacrifice of past generations, the cultural movement of baby boomer parents (and the music they branded on my brain) was followed by teamwork with elite athletes competing on the world stage. Then, moving to 6 different cities in pursuit of corporate excellence while finding love and marriage with Yadia has equipped me with skills I never imagined, keeping me balanced. What skills? We’ve broken them up into 4 pillars.