Business is Combat

Lead Your Company to Flawless Execution with Afterburner:

Afterburners are 50 men and women Fighter Pilots who are uniquely qualified to teach the skills needed for breakthrough performance. This incredible team has a powerful mix of combat experience combined with extensive business skills. Many members of Afterburner are graduates of America's top business schools and academies.

Afterburners know that business is combat, and success depends on how well all members of your team execute their individual missions, every single day. Many corporations are great at planning—but when it comes to executing, they fail. That's where Afterburner can help. They lead the world's top corporations to breakthrough performance through the pursuit of flawless execution.

What Afterburners Talk About:

A presentation by the Afterburner team is one of the most energetic and high-impact sessions your audience will experience. Their message is highly customized, not a one-size-fits-all speech. In addition, presentations are accompanied by cutting edge, high-impact multimedia graphics and video footage.

Afterburners focus on improving the leadership skills of their audiences, as well as productivity, teamwork and communications skills. Whether you are in sales and marketing, operations or management, Afterburner can help you transform your team into a highly competitive fighting force.

Afterburners’ presentations include:

Brief to Win! Why do the highly talented and motivated team members of so many businesses with a great plan fall short? Because the plan is not properly communicated to those who must execute it. Through the experience of combat, fighter pilots have developed a life-saving, mission-perfecting formula for communicating the plan. Audiences see actual footage of a real combat mission briefing and learn firsthand how it's done.

Plan...Brief...Execute...Debrief...WIN! A high-energy multimedia presentation about how fighter pilots operate in a combat environment—and how to apply those lessons to business. Rare cockpit footage and state-of-the-art computer graphics make for a presentation your team will never forget. This keynote covers the Flawless Execution Model of Plan, Brief, Execute and Debrief.

Eliminating Task Saturation Task Saturation is the #1 productivity-killer in business today. In the world of fighter pilots, task saturation can be deadly. In today's fast-paced business environment, it can threaten people’s careers and their businesses. In this keynote you will learn how to spot the signs of this silent killer of productivity. More importantly, audiences learn how fighter pilots overcome Task Saturation by employing the three 'C's: Checklists, Crosschecks and Check Six.