Brian Ferguson has spent a career working in high-performance organizations, learning from leaders and decision-makers in national security, the military, and technology. The first part of Brian’s career was spent working as a civilian in national security primarily in the policy-making component of Office of the Secretary of Defense. During those years, he was exposed to how a large, complex organization wrestled with evolutions in speed-of-information, decision-making, and new technology.

Today, he is the CEO of Arena Labs, a company that works in High Performance Medicine. Arena Labs works with a wide range of hospitals and surgical teams to bridge the “first principles of high performance” with unique technology for training stress, anxiety and decision making in complex, demanding surgical environments.

He received an MSc from The London School of Economics and is a graduate of the Santa Fe Institute on Complexity. Brian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Pacific Council on International Policy. He and his wife Lindsay are both proud Midwesterners who now live in San Clemente, California.