After a 20-year Air Force career, Jason Anderson retired, moved his family to Wyoming, and stepped into what looked like a promising new chapter: an entry-level remote business development role at a mid-sized aerospace and defense company. Twelve months later, he was promoted to Managing Director for Japan, Korea, and Taiwan—an executive role overseeing multiple international markets.
On paper, the transition looked seamless.
Behind the scenes, it was anything but.
Despite extensive leadership experience, Jason quickly realized he was unprepared for the private-sector environment. The mental models, expectations, and decision-making rules were entirely different—and no one had ever taught him how to operate in this new context. Everything felt ad hoc, reactive, and exhausting. He worked hard, asked questions, absorbed as much as possible, but the learning curve was steep and inconsistent.
Without a roadmap or a framework, he spent years trying to decode how private companies actually functioned—who to ask, how direct to be, what success looked like, and how to build trust in an unfamiliar environment. The cost was real: ongoing stress, missed opportunities, slowed team growth, and strain on both work and family life.
That experience became the spark for PreVeteran.
What began as a personal realization quickly revealed a much larger systems failure affecting millions of service members.
Jason eventually realized the core problem wasn’t motivation, talent, or work ethic. It was orientation.
The environment had changed.
The training hadn’t.
Service members weren’t being trained to shift environments. They’re entering the private sector with outdated tools, mismatched mental models, and no operating system for success.
So he built one.
PreVeteran exists to solve that root problem with a scalable, neuroscience-based training system that helps service members reorient from the military to the private sector—and thrive long after the uniform comes off.