Brent MacLerie has spent his career building high-performing engineering teams and quietly watching the same pattern play out in the men around him. Capable, intelligent, driven men who were professionally successful and personally falling apart. Men who had no language for what they were carrying, let alone the tools to address it. Men who, when they went looking for answers, found content that validated their pain while quietly making it worse.
That observation became a decade-long inquiry. Drawing on his background in engineering leadership and team psychology and his own experience navigating the gap between professional competence and personal wellbeing, Brent developed the MacLerie Model: a six-skill behavioural framework for men built around emotional regulation, adaptive coping, growth mindset, community, internal locus of control, and abundance thinking. Each skill evidenced, each one practical, and together forming a reinforcing cycle that offers men a genuine alternative to the ideologies that have filled the vacuum left by a culture that actively shames and discourages men from developing them
Brent is also the voice behind Expatriarch, a social media platform where his work sits at the intersection of anti-misogyny advocacy, counter-disinformation, and men’s mental health. His content tackles the gender-related myths that cause the most harm, around domestic violence, sexual misconduct, and the distorted narratives that shape how men see themselves and the world, and replaces them with something the manosphere rarely offers: facts. His “These Are Not Facts” series has become a touchstone for audiences who want rigour without jargon and honesty without hostility. While others brought outrage, Brent gained a reputation for “bringing the receipts”, going claim by claim, tracing the statistics that circulate the loudest in male online spaces back to their origins and letting the evidence speak for itself. His work is grounded in the belief that misinformation about gender doesn’t just hurt women. It actively damages the men it claims to serve.
As a domestic violence survivor, Brent brings more than research to these conversations. His personal experience of abuse and of navigating the particular silence that surrounds male survivors has made him one of the few voices in this space willing to speak about domestic violence and sexual misconduct with both unflinching honesty and genuine empathy for everyone affected. He advocates not from a distance, but from the inside.
A British-born engineer and leader now based in the United States, Brent brings a cross-cultural perspective to conversations about masculinity, mental health, and what it actually takes to build the kind of life and the kind of man worth choosing. He has appeared on podcasts across the mental health, relationships, and leadership spaces, spoken at live events, and is currently developing a book and behavioural framework that brings together the research, the evidence, and the practical tools behind his approach to men’s wellbeing.
Brent is available for speaking engagements, podcast appearances, and panel conversations on men’s mental health, behavioural change, domestic violence advocacy, inclusive leadership, and the psychology of self-improvement.
Prior discussions Brent has been part of...
In Conversation
Male Fragility: Why Accountability Feels Like an Attack
When Jokes About Underage Girls Aren't Jokes
Why Women Chose the Bear
Men can't be victims, right? Common myths about men and narcissistic abuse
Let's Talk About: How To Be A Man And Not A Misogynist
... and an open invitation to start the next one.