Vernice Armour: FlyGirl Motivational
Motivational keynote speaker Vernice Armour FlyGirl, America’s first Black woman combat pilot, delivers breakthrough leadership, diversity, and resilience strategies that drive bold action and measurable results.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- America’s first Black woman combat pilot
- Two combat tours in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps
- Former diversity liaison officer to the Pentagon
- Founder of VAI Consulting & Training, LLC
- Formats: Keynote Speaker, Leadership Facilitator
- Audiences: Corporate leaders, diversity and inclusion teams, women in tech, high-performance organizations, emerging leaders
- Outcomes:
- Build resilient, confident leadership under pressure
- Take bold, strategic action toward meaningful goals
- Strengthen inclusive leadership and team performance
- Travels from: Atlanta, GA
- **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000
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Keynote Topics:
Cleared Hot!
You HAVE Permission to Engage Employee engagement, customer engagement, team engagement, personal engagement.
No matter what area an organization is strategically trying to improve, individuals have to be engaged and execute in order for the plan forward!
The key is giving the permission to engage from the inside out.
Once that happens, your organization will be CLEARED HOT! There’s no secret…a solid flight plan is the key.
Who Needs A Runway?!
Take Off From Where You Are!!!
The bottom line is that we have to move into action from where we are! Unfortunately, many people become paralyzed in the preparation phase.
Decide what you want, put your stake in the ground and execute! Vernice calls this making a commitment to the commitment.
Give your organization the boost they need to come together as a team, understand how their objectives support the overall strategy and accomplish the mission achieving the desired results!
Other Topics
- Zero To Breakthrough™
- Driving Diversity Deep into the DNA of Your Organization
Talent Short Bio
Vernice Armour, widely known as “FlyGirl,” is a groundbreaking keynote speaker, leadership expert, and former U.S. Marine Corps combat pilot. As America’s first Black woman combat pilot, she flew two tours in Iraq and later served as a diversity liaison officer to the Pentagon, shaping inclusive leadership at the highest levels.
After her military career, Armour transitioned into entrepreneurship, founding VAI Consulting & Training, LLC, where she helps organizations and individuals achieve breakthrough performance through her proven “Zero to Breakthrough” success model. She is also the author of Zero to Breakthrough, a practical guide to achieving meaningful goals through disciplined mindset and action.
FlyGirl’s speaking programs are known for their high energy, authenticity, and actionable insights. She combines powerful storytelling from combat and business with strategies that help audiences build resilience, take decisive action, and lead with confidence. Her work extends into mentoring senior executive women in tech and advising major organizations on diversity and leadership.
Read Full Bio
Combat tests you. Being a beat cop tests you. Life tests you. Three brothers and being the only girl…tests you. Vernice Armour has been tested her whole life. A gutsy trailblazer, her resume is an impressive collection of “firsts” including America’s first Black woman combat pilot.
She served two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine. She was also a diversity liaison officer to the Pentagon for Headquarters Marine Corps. After her military service, FlyGirl revved up her career in the private sector as an entrepreneur, consultant to business, and author of Zero to Breakthrough, The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter.
As a speaker, FlyGirl unleashes hard-hitting advice and amazing anecdotes from her adventures on the battlefield and in business. She helps individuals and organizations Get Gutsy and build a sustainable inner force and conviction, that results in accomplishing significant goals.
In 2007, Vernice Armour FlyGirl launched VAI Consulting & Training, LLC. Through that work, she helps individuals and organizations make gutsy moves and create breakthrough results by applying her “Zero to BreakthroughTM” Success Model – a mindset that helped to propel her career and kept her safe in air combat. FlyGirl regularly takes her message to premier meetings and conferences worldwide and is a Gutsy Confidence Mentor for elite senior executive Women in Tech.
As her newest business venture, in 2020 FlyGirl started FlyGirl Construction, a General Contracting Firm in the Atlanta, GA area.
As a Black gay woman and single mom, Vernice Armour FlyGirl brings vital experience to her role as a member of the Forbes School of Business & Technology Board of Advisors and COMCAST/NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Council.
FlyGirl has two honorary doctorates and has received numerous awards as a pioneering pilot, including honors for her commanding role in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
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