Afterburner, Inc. Featured Business Experts on Flawless Execution

Addressing Complexity. Becoming Agile. Leading through Change. Innovation. Operational Excellence. Developing Leaders. Retaining Top Talent. Do these sound like a myriad of challenges, many of which you and your organization today face? Do your strategies to address and excel in these areas seem disconnected and paralyze your people? Would you believe a firm has spent the last two decades evangelizing and demonstrating that in fact they are all connected? And better still, there is a simple, holistic set of tools and techniques you can apply to address them all - simultaneously? Afterburner, Inc. is a team of elite military professionals turned Executive Consultants that has for two decades leveraged their unique experience, training and insights to develop and deploy client solutions accelerating the execution of strategy. Created in 1996 by Founder and CEO James ‘Murph’ Murphy, at the time an Air Force F-15 Fighter Pilot and Instructor, in two short decades Afterburner has trained 1.5 million executives, leaders and managers to address complexity with simplicity, develop agile, high performing teams, engage and develop top talent and lead through change as they pursue a culture of excellence. And best of all, they have done it in real time. Not in academic settings, not in development off-sites or simulated business cases – no. In real time, on real can’t fail projects and initiatives, on the daily work that moves the organization forward and drives the bottom line. Aligned with the 2014 release of his 5th book Courage To Execute, Jim’s new keynote address not only shares how leaders can address these challenges and seize these opportunities, he details the simple, scalable process that elite military teams and Afterburner’s key clients leverage to survive, thrive and dominate where competitors fall short. Leveraging video, corporate and military analogies and Lessons Learned from his work advising Executives at 85% of the Fortune 50 and dozens more, this keynote will inform and empower leaders to scope the environment, drown out the noise, align strategy to execution and empower leaders to demonstrate a Bias to Action – the secret to winning in the today’s business environment.

Your Business, Your Team, Your Success. U.S. Navy SEALs are forged by some of the most intensive selection and training processes of any elite military professional in the world. They are a special breed of warrior, capable of conducting missions in any environment. Often operating silently under the cover of darkness, they possess a relentless commitment to individual initiative, personal responsibility and mission accomplishment. Navy SEAL Team Building Keynote Speakers Building High-Performing Teams - the Navy SEAL Way Learn how our U.S. Navy SEALs selected, trained, planned, led and executed their missions all over the globe. Our Navy SEAL speakers share the tools and techniques SEAL teams use to thrive and survive in rapidly changing and hostile environments. Learn how you too can apply those same tools to any business situation, anytime, anywhere. This exciting, interactive high impact one hour keynote highlights the process the SEALs use to ensure they achieve mission success, and then applies that same process to you and your team. Imagine hearing first hand stories about real-world missions that demonstrate how to leverage this incredible process to drive initiative, accountability and achievement–just like the SEALs.

Sales Performance Improvement—When Failure Isn't an Option... When the economy is great, having a sales team that is less than flawless is tolerable. For most companies, soft demand means the team members on the front lines of sales have to take up the slack. Nobody wants whining or excuses about why a quota can't be met. Excuses don't make payroll. Like the world of combat, failure is not an option. But how can a team see overnight sales performance improvement? With Flawless Execution: Plan. Brief. Execute. Debrief -the recipe for success for fighter pilots around the world. It works in the business of combat, and it works in the business of selling. Selling in Today's New Normal The Flawless Sales Keynote will teach your sales team how to harness the power of Flawless Execution, starting with the Six Steps to Mission PlanningSM as they learn to apply our proven planning process to the next annual sales strategy, weekly account plan, or even a single sales call. For most sales teams, knowing how to sell isn't the issue...the issue is in execution. They know what they need to do, they just need a simple, scalable model that makes it fast and easy. Disciplined targeting, planning, and adjusting is their responsibility. Enabling your team to fulfill their sales potential is yours. Build your sales team the Fighter Pilot way with Flawless Sales Execution.

Flawless execution starts with a strategy that's understood by EVERYONE - not just your C Level Executives! In organizations around the world, high-level strategy tends to be disconnected from the front line execution of daily operations. This means that the organization is not aligned - execution is disorganized and unfocused due to disjointed or unclear Leader’s Intent. A great strategy is only valuable if it's executed In Leading Flawless Execution From the Top, Afterburner's most experienced current and former military leaders will teach your executives how to develop a High Definition DestinationSM to drive accountable action at the strategic and tactical levels. Your leaders learn how to identify critical leverage points, those few yet powerful strategic activities that you must undertake to achieve your High Definition Destination (HDD). This interactive keynote will energize your leadership teams and empower them with a process that will accelerate learning and cultivate a culture of accountability as the independent silos in your company begin to align to and strive for organizational excellence. Your leaders are about to be initiated into a whole new way of thinking.

More than just energy & motivation - return to work with REAL WORLD ROI! Over the course of 19 years and 1.5+ million professionals trained, our keynote programs remain unmatched in three key areas: content customization, cognitive engagement and take-away value. During the Flawless Execution Keynote, participants will be introduced to the Flawless Execution Cycle, the simple, scalable methodology that is easily learned and adopted yet holistic in its approach to business management. Your program - Your content! Prior to your program, your Executive Consultant will work with you to learn your organization from front to back. Pre-program briefs allow us to gain an understanding of your company, environment, competitors, culture, objectives and language to completely customize the program to your audience through use-case scenarios of Flawless Execution created specifically to your challenges and opportunities. The result? A dynamic, high-energy keynote program that will lead your audience directly to integrating what they learn into daily operations to break down silos, drive accountability and accelerate learning - all in just 60 minutes.

Not all team building seminars are created equal Leaning Forward is an interactive, corporate team building event where your team will learn, via lecture and experiential learning, how Fighter Pilots strive for Flawless Execution? in every single mission. This program is for clients that want a high energy, motivational team building program but do not have the required 4 to 6 hours of time necessary for an Afterburner Day event. While the Afterburner Day covers the entire Flawless Execution Model? (Plan, Brief, Execute, and Debrief), the Leaning Forward corporate team building event focuses entirely on Planning and Debriefing. Break your performance barriers with an unequaled experiential learning seminar Your day begins in the Main Briefing Room as you and your team enter through a camouflage netting tunnel where you will experience an interactive, multimedia introduction to the Flawless Execution Model, focusing on the Six Steps of Mission Planning and the Nameless, Rankless STEALTH Debrief. The initial keynote is followed by a hands-on experiential team building exercise, where your team divides into "squadrons" of 15 and work together to plan a mission to rescue a downed fighter pilot. This exercise is designed to open the communication lines between team members or they risk failing the mission. Task Saturation sets in as the squadrons battle weather changes, enemy attacks, and short time lines to achieve the mission, forcing them to draw upon the skills they learned during the opening session. Group dynamics, task management, threat assessment, communication, and leadership are all tested during this learning exercise. Once the exercise ends, teams will learn their "profit and loss" of the mission, then return to the Main Briefing Room for an on-stage debrief of one teams' mission results. The Leaning Forward program provides the time-restricted team with an opportunity to address key areas of performance--planning and debriefing--to grow individually and as a group.

Break Your Performance Barriers With an Unequaled Experiential Learning Seminar During the Afterburner Day, your team will learn how fighter pilots execute missions flawlessly in the most hostile environments on the planet - and how you can do the same in your environment. This professional team building seminar is unlike any team building seminar you've participated in before. Your group will learn to use combat-proven planning processes to develop a mission plan--all while experiencing the communication challenges and onslaught of Task Saturation you've come to expect from your busy schedule. Then, once you've planned and executed that mission, your team will debrief it just like fighter pilot squadrons during a STEALTH DebriefSM. Your teams won't forget the skills learned during the Afterburner Day - because the skills they learn can be applied to the job the very next day! Start Your Day the Fighter Pilot Way Your Afterburner Day begins when you and your team are ordered to a briefing room where a camouflage net tunnel marks your entrance and parachutes, music is blaring and fighter jets flying across a giant screen. Welcome to the Afterburner Day employee team-building program - where we introduce your team to Flawless ExecutionSM, a proprietary continuous improvement process born in the zero-tolerance-for-error world of military aviation. After a high-energy opening keynote, your teams will immediately apply the Flawless Execution model during a collaborative Mission Planning exercise. This exercise is designed to force participants out of their comfort zone and into the unknown, rapidly changing environment of a fighter pilot. Corporate Team Building Seminar for Stronger Teams Success requires effective communication, leadership, and full-team collaboration to overcome big challenges - changing weather, spies, jets running out of fuel and a challenge known only to Afterburner alumni! All of the threats faced during the Mission Planning Exercise–weather, espionage and more–aren't just for fun: these are the everyday elements that cause Task SaturationSM in fighter pilots and even though your teams' environment differs, the effects contingencies do not. Following the exercise, your teams will learn about–and conduct–a STEALTH DebriefSM, the final step in accelerating performance and learning. Each team will Debrief the results of their Mission Planning Exercise and learn how to identify and transfer the Lessons Learned. After a full day committed to team building, alignment, and continuous improvement, you and your team will never look at team building seminars the same way. The Afterburner Day won't only set the standard for future training, it will set the standard for the way you do business in the future.

Take your commitment to organizational excellence to the next level with Mach II Your team has experienced the Afterburner Day team building seminar, now it's time to accelerate. It's time to effectively communicate and flawlessly execute your mission with a different kind of Flawless ExecutionSM training. Most companies fail at the most critical point: communicating the mission and getting all team members aligned to execute it. Leaders issue marching orders before they even tell the troops where to go. This leaves gaping holes in the mission plan, leading to slips in productivity and drops in morale, all while allowing your competition pull ahead. Maximize your ROI for full-team exposure Mach II Execution takes teams beyond the Afterburner Day seminar, elevating performance to new levels and maximum productivity. During this immersive session, your team will tests its own abilities in two crucial elements of the Flawless Execution ModelSM: clearly communicating the mission, and overcoming Task Saturation during mission execution. In Mach II, the skill sets your team acquired during the Afterburner Day are advanced, putting leaderships skills, mutual support, and team communication to the test. When the destination is clear, people are drawn to it. Learning the power of briefing the mission, your team will operate like a well-oiled machine. Learning how to recognize and eliminate Task Saturation will make your team unstoppable.

Born in the high reliability world of military aviation, Flawless ExecutionSM  is a simple, scalable approach to building elite teams. This process, is the core of what we teach, driving continuous learning at every level.

Our diverse team of elite military speakers will inspire your team through storytelling, interactive content and concrete takeaway. We will introduce a simple yet powerful framework, we used in combat, to help unlock the true potential of your team. Our keynote topics include:

-FLAWLESS SALES

-FLAWLESS LEADERSHIP

-FLAWLESS EXECUTION