Afterburner Inc: Leadership Team Building

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    Learn from the experiences of fighter pilots — who execute missions flawlessly in the most hostile environments — to gain new insights into how to understand and overcome high-performance obstacles.

     

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  • Travels from: Miami, FL
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BUILD A HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAM

We work directly with your team to inject rigor and discipline into your execution process.

 

We’ll help you:

  • Identify your High-Definition Destination
  • Create an aligned plan
  • Set your execution rhythm
  • Turn lessons learned into actionable process improvements

Learn from the experiences of fighter pilots — who execute missions flawlessly in the most hostile environments — to gain new insights into how to understand and overcome high-performance obstacles.

  • Bring Home Continuous Improvement
  • A Fighter Pilot’s Secret to Business Success
  • Leading Flawless Execution From The Top

For the past two decades, Afterburner Inc has shown corporations around the world how to utilize the same techniques that created leaders and developed elite teams in the high-stakes environment of combat.

They bring a hands-on approach to developing leaders, improving communication and collaboration, and increasing agility; all while driving team and individual accountability.

As the global leader in Flawless Execution, they offer three strategic quality management solutions – Equip, Embed, and Empower, a set of business process improvement principles. Afterburner Inc apply these principles to help their clients succeed through:

Afterburner Inc

Experiential Learning – Developing highly customized programs to educate, align and create buy-in
-Real-world Application – Providing a simple & scalable process that can be applied immediately
-Solution Adoption – Our reputation is built on providing tools (e.g. Accelerator Academy E-Learning) to drive sustainment (ROI)

Accelerate your individual, team, and organizational performance with Flawless Execution!

Our Afterburner Seminars team of current and former fighter pilots, U.S. Navy SEALs and other elite military professionals has a powerful mix of combat experience and professional acumen, including graduates of top business schools and academies.

For nearly 20 years, we’ve leveraged our expertise in strategic execution, strategy development, leadership training, and VUCA environments to empower individuals, teams, and organizations to close execution gaps, accelerate learning and lead more effectively as they pursue cultures of excellence.

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