Dr. Bryan Price

Founder at Top Mental Game LLC

Bryan Price, Ph.D., is the founder of Top Mental Game LLC which provides leaders in business, sports, and the military with the leadership and mental performance tools needed to perform at their best when it matters the most.

Before starting Top Mental Game, Bryan served for 20 years as a U.S. Army officer, retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel in 2018. He was a 3-year starter and captain of the baseball team at the U.S. Military Academy, earning Patriot League All-Decade team in the process. Bryan was commissioned as an aviation officer and flew the AH-64D Apache Longbow while serving in a variety of command and staff positions in the first half of his career, including combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Army sent Bryan to Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in political science in just three years, before serving as an Academy Professor and the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center from 2012-2018. In this capacity, Bryan briefed the nation’s most senior leaders about the Center’s counterterrorism research, and in 2016 he was invited to testify in front of Congress about the lessons learned from U.S. counterterrorism since 2001. Bryan’s research focused on terrorist group leadership, and his book Targeting Top Terrorists was published by Columbia University Press in 2019.

Upon retiring from the military, Bryan became the founding Executive Director of the Buccino Leadership Institute, a comprehensive 4-year leadership program at Seton Hall University known for its innovative approach to experiential learning. Bryan won the Innovation in Teaching Award given by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration in 2021. In 2022, the Institute was named the top leadership program in the nation by the Association of Leadership Educators. Bryan’s next book shares how to revolutionize leadership development in higher education.

Bryan is an ICF-certified leadership coach (PCC). He lives with his wife Tonya and daughter Samantha in Sea Girt, New Jersey.