Mission-Based Resilience · Proactive stress training

Train for it
before it becomes
a problem.

Stress training built by a Navy SEAL officer and a team of PhDs, for the people who carry the pressure — public safety, military, industry, and you. A course, a coach that never sleeps, a private room, and a live session every month.

Fig. 01 · Program at a glance v2026.11
ProgramMission-Based Resilience — seven chapters, 20+ tools
FormatCourse · 24/7 AI coach · private portal · weekly thread · monthly live session
AccessOne login, any device. Nothing on your network.
TimeTen minutes a week. One hour a month, live.
Price$10 per person, per month · annual agreement
Built byDr. Ed Naggiar — 20-year Navy SEAL officer, PhD I/O Psychology
In useBay County Sheriff's Office · Panama City Fire · Panama City Beach Fire Rescue

Already in use

15 years · 40+ organizations · two fire departments, department-wide
Bay County Sheriff's Office
Panama City Fire Department
Panama City Beach Fire Rescue
Florida Department of Corrections
Massachusetts Dept. of Correction
Florida Deputy Sheriffs Association
DC Office of Unified Communications
Florida Fish & Wildlife
BHP
U.S. Health & Human Services

01 / The situation

Your alarm system doesn't clock out when you do.

The stress response was built for thirty seconds of danger. Your people run it for twelve-hour shifts, then take it home. Untrained, it compounds — in a person first, then in a crew, then in the numbers you answer for.

05:40

Up before the alarm. The day is already running.

09:15

The call. The dock. The meeting that goes sideways.

14:00

Replaying it. The body still thinks it's 09:15.

19:30

Home, still running hot. Short with the people who matter.

02:10

Awake. The next shift starts in four hours.

54%Say job stress has significantly affected themU.S. workers reporting job insecurity significantly affected their stress at work. APA Work in America, 2025.
42%Can't sleep because of work stressAmong workers worried about a downturn. APA Work in America, 2025.
2.5millionRecordable workplace injuries and illnessesU.S. private industry, 2024. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Life is a perishable skill. You don't get to train it once."

Dr. Ed Naggiar · Mission-Based Resilience, Chapter 1

02 / Who's teaching

A SEAL officer with a PhD in how people perform under stress.

Dr. Ed Naggiar spent twenty years as a U.S. Navy SEAL officer and served as a human test subject at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit, studying the limits of the body in and out of the water. He has taught resilience to drilling crews, correctional officers, SWAT teams, firefighters, Fortune 500 executives and incarcerated men working through addiction. The method on this site is the one he teaches in the room.

ServiceSEAL Team ONE · SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team ONE · Special Boat Team TWENTY-TWO
ResearchHuman experimental test subject, Navy Experimental Diving Unit
CredentialsPhD, Industrial/Organizational Psychology · Board Certified Coach
AuthorThe Suit & The SEAL, with Pat Brooks
TeamDr. Nicholas Dodge (Operations) · Dr. George Ramie (Medical) · Travis Williams (Physical) · Colin McKee (Coaching)

03 / Inside the portal

One login. Everything the program is.

Members open one private room and find the course, a coach that answers in Ed's voice at any hour, a weekly assignment and the monthly live session. Leaders see counts, never names.

HPC Portal · Bay County Sheriff's Office
HPC Weekly trainingAsk the coachLive sessionsThe vaultResilience inventory Private room
Week 12 · Monday 06:00
Know your zone

Every operator has a zone where stress sharpens them instead of flattening them. This week: find yours before the call comes in. Two questions, five minutes each.

Assignment · 10 minDr. Ed Naggiar
Live · Thu 19:00 CT
Leading a crew through a bad week

One hour with Dr. Naggiar. Recorded and posted here.

Coach · 24/7
Froze on a call last night. Never happened before.
You didn't freeze. You hit the top of your zone. Walk me through the thirty seconds before the tones — what was your body already doing?
Hadn't eaten since noon. Third call of the shift.
That's the physical pillar, not a character flaw. Let's build the quad chart for it.

Representative view. Real screens replace this after launch.

01
The course

Mission-Based Resilience — seven chapters, 20+ tools, self-paced, in Ed's voice.

02
The coach

An AI coach trained on Ed's lectures and his book. Private to each member, awake at 2 a.m.

03
Weekly training

A five-minute read and a ten-minute assignment every Monday, so the skill doesn't perish.

04
Live, monthly

One hour with Dr. Naggiar on your group's stressors. Recorded and posted.

05
Resilience inventory

Intake at sign-up, retaken quarterly. Progress goes to the member; counts go to leadership.

06
The vault

Programs, articles, recordings, and the exercises that come back as PDFs.

Course exercises come back as PDFs, by email

SMART GoalEmergency Quad ChartMission Mind MapSpiritual MapPersonal CreedResilience Plan

04 / How it rolls out

From signature to first live session in a month.

No procurement marathon, no integration project. An organization can't train; its people can — and one signature lets them.

01
Day 0
Sign

One agreement, one line item: seats × $10 × 12 months. Named editions get a quote.

02
Weeks 1–2
Build

Your private room, an intake inventory written for your organization, and your sign-up link.

03
Week 3
Launch

You send one link. Members are in within minutes, on any device, no IT ticket.

04
Month 1 →
Train

Weekly thread, the coach around the clock, the first live session with Dr. Naggiar. Quarterly readout, as counts.

Nothing on your network.

No install, no integration, nothing for IT to approve. A web link that works on a phone.

Counts, never names.

Leadership sees participation and progress as numbers. Nobody's answers, nobody's conversations.

Nothing in a personnel file.

The coach's conversations stay with the member. Confidentiality is a rule of engagement, not a setting.

05 / The method

Four pillars. One perishable skill.

Fifteen percent physical, eighty-five percent psychological. Trained in order, retrained every week.

15% physical85% psychological
Fig. 02 · Performance vs. stressKnow your zone
Low The zone Overload Performance ↑ Stress →

The science is the stress response itself — stimulus and response, the amygdala and the hypothalamus, what cortisol does to a shift. The training is what you do with it: play the tape forward, fill the emergency quad chart, name the coping mechanism, change the perception.

01

Physical

Sleep, movement, nutrition — the body that carries the rest.

02

Mental

Stimulus and response. Temporal awareness. Playing the tape forward.

03

Emotional

Coping mechanisms named, sorted and retrained.

04

Spiritual

Purpose, meaning and a personal creed.

06 / Results

Fifteen years in the rooms where stress is the job.

15YearsPublic safety, military, corrections, industry.
40+OrganizationsFrom a county sheriff's office to Fortune 500 teams.
2Fire departments, dept.-widePanama City and Panama City Beach, every firefighter.
Mission-Based Resilience training has had a real impact in the personal and professional lives of our command staff and deputies. We intend to make it standard practice.
Major Tommy FordBay County Sheriff's Office
Dr. Naggiar's mental and emotional preparation got me through the biggest challenge of my career. I use it at home now — the organization, the goal-setting, all of it.
Lt. Kevin LolleyPanama City Fire Department · Georgia Smoke Diver #900
The program gives a systematic way to address any stressor and make a plan to manage it. It changed how I see stress.
Charles CromerCorrectional Officer
Our team completed the training and the company had its largest month ever. I credit part of that to it.
Tim BrockPresident and Owner, Brock Lawn and Pest Control
All results and client stories →

07 / Questions a chief asks

The things you'd ask on the call, answered first.

Q1
Who sees what my people write?

No one at your organization. Leaders see participation and progress as counts. The coach's conversations are private to the member; nothing goes in a personnel file.

Q2
What does it cost?

$10 per person, per month on an annual agreement for organizations. Named editions get a quote. Individual membership is coming soon.

Q3
How much time does it take?

The course is self-paced. The weekly thread is ten minutes. The live session is one hour a month, recorded for anyone on shift.

Q4
Does it need IT?

No. Nothing on your network, nothing to install, nothing to approve. A web link that works on a phone.

Q5
Can we start with one unit?

Yes. Start with a shift, a station or a command; the room grows when you do, at the same per-seat price.

Q6
What happens in the live session?

One hour with Dr. Naggiar on your group's stressors — the ones from the intake inventory, not a generic deck. Recorded and posted in your room.

Next step

Fifteen minutes with Dr. Naggiar. A quote the same day.

Your organization's stressors, the portal on screen, and the program brief in your inbox the same day. One signature says yes. Prefer to write first? Send the details and Ed replies within a business day.

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