Based on the national bestseller Mission Driven by Mike Hayes (Managing Director at Insight Partners, Former Navy SEAL Commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader), this session explores how leaders can find clarity, resilience, and balance while pursuing ambitious professional goals.
This fireside chat between Mike and Allison Kent (Executive Vice President at Insight Partners) who leads the Onsite Enterprise COE, will unpack an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life.
We’ll explore lessons on defining who you want to be—not just what you want to do—making courageous decisions, and finding fulfillment through service and purpose. Whether you’re leading a team, transitioning roles, or navigating growth, this discussion offers a roadmap for aligning impact, ambition, and meaning.
For portfolio companies that attend the event, we will provide you with a free copy of the book to help you scale in 2026.
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Former Navy SEAL Commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader, Mike Hayes, offers an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life.
Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles, or people shifting to find new balance in their lives. It is divided into two sections: The Long Game (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success, and what kind of impact you’re looking to have in your own life and the world) and The Short Game (moving readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they’ve gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities).
Its lessons include:
• Not What You Want To Be, But Who You Want to Be
• The Most Powerful Secret I Know: Helping Others Helps Us More
• Getting Comfortable Making Decisions
• Finding Enough In The Ways You Spend Your Time
Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey or, at any stage, looking for more, Mission Driven is a roadmap for discovering what drives you, and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities. It is a book to help us satisfy our ambitions and our souls, filled with smart, empathetic guidance.
Mike donates all profits from his book sales to a 501c3 he started that pays off mortgages for Gold Star families. To date, The 1162 Foundation has paid off twelve mortgages for widows and children.
“I first met Mike nearly twenty years ago and can’t imagine anyone who has led a more 'Mission Driven' life. His words are a powerful blueprint for leading with integrity, resilience, and purpose. This book challenges us to think bigger than ourselves, to serve with conviction, and to live a life that truly matters. A must-read for anyone striving to make an impact—in business and in life.”
— Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorganChase
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Managing Director
Insight Partners
Mike Hayes is Managing Director, Insight Partners, a global software investment firm with $80B+ in regulatory assets under management and 800+ portfolio companies across every stage of growth. Prior to Insight, Mike was Chief Operating Officer at VMware, where he led the company's worldwide business operations, their SaaS transition, and the successful acquisition into Broadcom for $94B.
Before that, Mike served as Senior Vice President and Head of Strategic Operations for Cognizant Technologies, where he ran a $2B P&L for Cognizant’s global financial services clients. Mike previously spent four years at Bridgewater Associates, an investment management firm, where he served in Chief of Staff to CEO and COO roles.
Prior to Bridgewater, he spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy SEALs where his career began as one of 19 graduates from a class of 120. Mike served throughout South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, including the conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. His last job in the Navy was the Commanding Officer of SEAL Team TWO, which included ten months as the Commander of a 2,000 person Special Operations Task Force in southeastern Afghanistan. Before that, Mike was selected as a White House Fellow ('08/'09) and served two years as Director, Defense Policy and Strategy at the National Security Council.
In the Bush Administration, Mike was responsible for the START Treaty, where he produced a new proposed START Treaty and flew to Russia for negotiations. In the Obama administration, he led the White House response to President Obama's first major foreign policy showdown - the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia. Prior to the White House Fellowship, Mike served as the Deputy Commander for all Special Operations in Anbar Province, Iraq. Mike holds an M.A. in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School and received his B.A. from Holy Cross College, where he was an active Big Brother. His military decorations include the Bronze star for valor in combat in Iraq, a Bronze Star for Afghanistan, and the Defense Superior Service Medal from the White House.
Mike is the author of best-seller “Never Enough: A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning" and donates all profits to a 501c3 he started that pays off mortgages for Gold Star widows and children. Mike serves on the boards of Immuta, a data governance company, American Equity Life, and the National Medal of Honor Museum. Mike is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is fluent in German and Spanish, frequently speaks about leadership and elite organizations, and enjoys mentoring others to success. He is a life-long Sox/Pats fan, but most enjoys laughing with his wife, Anita, and their 23-year old daughter, Maeson.
EVP, Onsite Enterprise (COE)
Insight Partners
Allison Kent is an Executive Vice President at Insight Partners. She leads the Enterprise Team, with a focus on building strategic relationships with enterprises to drive value into the Insight portfolio.
Prior to Insight, Allison was a Vice President at VMware, focused on building and delivering the operations strategy. She was previously a Managing Principal at Capco, a global business and technology consultancy, where she focused on delivering large scale technology programs and simplifying operational complexity. She started her career at Goldman Sachs in the Listed Derivatives organization. She is passionate about building high performing teams, simplifying and solving complex problems, and driving operational rigor.
Allison holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Georgetown University.
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Onsite Hour is a weekly virtual event series designed exclusively for Insight Partners' portfolio of 500+ software companies. Every Wednesday at 12pm (ET), subject matter experts will dive into practical, high-impact topics tailored to the challenges and opportunities software operators face.
Each session is led by expert advisors from our Onsite Team, delivering insights on growth strategies, go-to-market execution, product innovation, financial optimization, and more—all in a format that’s actionable and engaging.
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