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About Marvin Mikle
High Performance & Resilience Coach | Founder of Chaos Development
Marvin Mikle is a former U.S. Army Green Beret, performance coach and founder of Chaos Development whose life and career have been shaped by one question: How do you perform at a high level without losing yourself in the process?
Growing up amid instability in Chicago, Marvin learned to operate in chaos early. He went on to spend more than a decade in Army Special Forces, completing six deployments before being medically retired. He later earned his MBA and transitioned to Wall Street - moving from one intense, high-performance environment into another.
A period of profound personal loss, combined with his own experience of burnout, eventually forced Marvin to confront something achievement had allowed him to avoid: being exceptionally good at pushing forward doesn't always mean you should.
That experience helped shape Chaos Development, his coaching practice for capable, driven people navigating pressure, uncertainty, burnout and major transitions. His work helps people step out of the noise, see what is actually happening and make clearer decisions without losing the ambition and drive that got them there.
Drawing on lessons from Special Forces, business, coaching and his own lived experience, Marvin brings a distinctive perspective to conversations about high performance, burnout, resilience, identity, flow, spirituality and personal development.
Rather than simply asking how we can achieve more, Marvin explores a more important question:
Who are you becoming in the process?
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Staying Grounded Amid Ongoing Uncertainty: How to separate what matters from what feels urgent and find clarity without waiting for circumstances to calm down.
Chaos isn't always something you can eliminate. Careers change, relationships shift, pressure builds and circumstances refuse to cooperate. Marvin explores how to remain grounded when the external…
The Spiritual Side of Identity: Using stillness to separate the roles we perform from who we are, and to tell achievement driven by alignment from achievement driven by fear.
From an early age, we're taught to build an identity around what we do: our career, achievements, relationships, responsibilities and the expectations other people place upon us. But what happens…
Psilocybin and Veteran PTSD: A former Special Forces medic on neuroplasticity, emerging therapies and the caution they call for.
Marvin Mikle spent more than a decade in Army Special Forces as a Green Beret and medic, and after six deployments that included hitting IEDs, he left the military being told that injuries like these…
Rebuilding After an Unplanned Career Exit: Practical first steps for professionals whose role ended on somebody else's terms.
Marvin Mikle was medically retired out of Army Special Forces after more than a decade and six deployments, which ended the work he was best at on somebody else's timetable. Most advice about career…