Meet the Founder

 Flip Griffin is a retired U.S. Navy Command Master Chief with 23 years of service in Search and Rescue and aviation medicine. Throughout his career, he led teams in high-risk environments where trust, clarity, and accountability were essential. Those experiences shaped how he understands leadership long before he ever taught it.

After retiring from the Navy, Flip felt a strong pull to continue serving by sharing what he had learned about leading people under pressure. That path led to a podcast conversation with Dale Walls, founder of Lions Guide. The two connected immediately over a shared belief that leadership should be practical, human, and grounded in real experience. That conversation turned into a four and a half year ongoing partnership focused on helping small business leaders build clarity, accountability, and sustainable leadership habits.

During that time, Flip formalized his leadership framework into what became Every Day Leader. At its core is a simple truth: leadership is not a title or a position. It is a daily practice. The framework focuses on leading yourself first, leading others with intention, and building teams that perform under pressure without burning out or breaking trust.

Everything changed when a fire department asked Flip to deliver the Every Day Leader class to their leadership team. What started as a single request revealed a critical gap. Firefighters are trained extensively to manage emergencies and scenes, but are rarely given a framework for leading the firehouse itself. That realization gave birth to Firehouse Freedom, the Fire and EMS adaptation of the Every Day Leader framework.

Today, Flip delivers Firehouse Freedom through conference sessions, workshops, and guided cohorts for Fire and EMS departments across the country and internationally. His style is direct, relatable, and grounded in lived experience. No jargon. No theory without application. Just leadership guidance that works where it matters most.