S5:E173🎙️ LIVE with COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) 🥃🪖

S5:E173🎙️ LIVE with COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) 🥃🪖

“Barrel Strength Leadership: Forging Leaders When the Stakes Are High”

 

Mark your calendars!

📅 Friday, August 21, 2026

⏰ 8:00 AM PT — San Francisco, CA

⏰ 10:00 AM CT — Austin, TX

⏰ 11:00 AM ET — Washington, D.C.

📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → [RSVP & Join the Discussion]

 

🌟 Meet My Guest

I’m honored to welcome my friend COL Chris Hossfeld, USA (Ret.) to the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ for a conversation about what leadership looks like when the stakes are high, information is incomplete, and people are depending on you.

Chris is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, combat veteran, former infantry battalion commander, strategist, educator, mentor, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of leadership.

 

During more than 27 years of Army service, Chris completed four combat deployments and led organizations ranging from small staffs to large multinational formations. His career included battalion command with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), developing commanders as a senior Observer/Controller/Trainer, serving as Chief of Staff for First Army Division East, and educating senior military and civilian leaders at the U.S. Army War College.

After retiring from the Army, Chris continued serving the national-security community at The University of Texas at Austin, helping connect innovative university research with Department of Defense challenges.

 

Today, Chris is Director of Programs at Argon Mechatronics and Founder & CEO of Barrel Strength Leadership—an organization built around a powerful idea:

🥃 Leadership should not be watered down.

 

Through mentorship, reflection, leadership development, and immersive battlefield staff rides at historic locations such as Gettysburg, Chris helps leaders move beyond theory and confront the realities of decision-making, risk, accountability, trust, adaptability, and leadership under pressure.

 

🔗 Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hossfeld-635a80105/

 

🧭 What You Will Learn…

✨ Leadership When the Stakes Are High: What four combat deployments and decades of military leadership taught Chris about making difficult decisions with incomplete information.

✨ Lessons from “No Slack”: What commanding an Air Assault Infantry Battalion and multinational forces taught him about trust, mission, accountability, and taking care of people.

✨ From Service to Significance: What Chris learned transitioning from nearly three decades in uniform to entrepreneurship, mentorship, national security, technology, and developing the next generation.

 

🥃 THE FINAL POUR

Near the end of our conversation, I’ll ask Chris one question that captures the heart of this episode:

After nearly three decades of service, four combat deployments, battalion command, developing commanders, teaching strategy, studying history, and now developing civilian leaders—if you could pour everything you’ve learned about leadership into ONE lesson for the next generation, what would it be?

 

You won't want to miss his answer.

 

💬 Join the Conversation!

✨ 🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

✨ 🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

✨ 💬 Got a leadership question for COL Chris Hossfeld? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!

 

👇 Your Turn

✨ ➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

✨ ➡️ What’s one leadership insight you’re applying this week?

✨ ➡️ Tag a colleague, junior officer, veteran, emerging leader, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

 

Leadership is easy to discuss when everything is going according to plan.

The real test comes when the plan breaks, uncertainty rises, and people look to you for direction.

 

Join us as we explore leadership at barrel strength—undiluted, forged through experience, and ready when the stakes are high. 🥃🪖🔥

Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS. 🇺🇸🫡

 

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