Biography of Afterburners Seminars

Afterburner Seminars began four years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, with one team of five speakers and facilitators doing a seminar for 120 employees of The Home Depot. Today, they have four teams and 47 men and women traveling worldwide, helping tens of thousands of America's finest managers take charge and become number one by using the lessons of accomplished military Fighter Pilots to quickly improve corporate execution.
Their clients include IBM, Marriott, Salomon Smith Barney, Nortel Networks, General Motors, UPS, Aetna and Dell. They have held seminars from the east coast to the west, from Canada to the Caribbean and in Germany, Australia and Singapore.
Anywhere you need to focus your management and energize your employees -- they'll be there with an Afterburner Seminars team of experienced military Fighter Pilots ready to brief your people on the Fighter Pilot's way to absolute success in today's highly charged, fast-moving world of business.
Afterburner Seminars provides leadership development and team building through the delivery of impactful, results oriented seminars and programs. They offer experiential interactive programs, custom workshops, individual corporate coaching and keynote speaking facilitated by 45 of America's elite Fighter Pilots.
Programs

AFTERBURNER DAY 1 1/2 Day Seminar Up to 1000

Our most popular, hands-on seminar for corporate management and sales, we show you how the tools employed by American fighter pilots can help you plan, execute and win in today’s fast-paced world of business. Using a multimedia presentation, a role-playing breakout session with experienced military fighter pilots as facilitators -- and a riveting final hour that some say is the best in the business -- our Afterburner Seminars team takes those tools and seamlessly translates them into your own business environment. Our message? Brief. Execute. Debrief. Win.

AFTERBURNER DAY 2 1/2 Day Seminar Up to 300

Success comes down to execution, and that starts with “Victory Through Business Execution!" That’s the message of our Afterburner Day 2 seminar. This half-day, hands-on event focuses on the importance of briefing the plan to your key people before ordering them to march. Using our hallmark blend of multimedia presentation, interactive cockpit simulators, role-playing breakouts and experienced military pilots as your facilitators, we show you how to prepare a high-impact briefing that will quickly improve individual and group execution so your company can rapidly -- and successfully -- reach its goals.

CORPORATE WINGMAN PROGRAM Certified Corporate Coaches

You know one of the secrets to a fighter pilot’s success -- it's called ‘never leave your wingman’. Now we’ll tell you another — fighter pilots are never alone. How’s that? During a mission, someone’s always talking to us…helping us…giving us directions and standing-by to get us through tough problems. Why should it be any different for you? Our Corporate Wingman program gives you confidential access to our Certified Corporate Coaches, all former military fighter pilots, for advice, ideas and fresh perspectives -- all without the entanglements of your own corporate world.

KEYNOTER 1 Hour Speakers, Keynotes

There’s no better way to get a meeting off to an energetic start than with a military fighter pilot from Afterburner Seminars. Our keynoters deliver the Afterburner Day 1 message of brief, flawless execution, debrief in an impactful, one-hour, multi-media format that includes your important corporate message.

WORKSHOPS 1/2 Day Workshops Groups 2-45

Challenging departmental or enterprise-wide problems are everyday. Our targeted, half-day workshops are packaged to help your specific group work through critical challenges, your challenges. Bring in our Afterburner Seminar facilitators to walk you through The Plan. Maybe a targeted workshop on execution is critical to move your group into the top 10%. Or it may be you need to measure results and the workshop on The Debrief is all you need. Your problems become actionable tasks and your team moves up.