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Zero to Breakthrough: The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter

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Vernice Armour Speaker Videos

• FLYGIRL: Who Needs a Runway

  

  In 2007, 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...
  FLYGIRL: Overcome Fear - Get Gutsy

  
• FLYGIRL: Military Profile

  
  FLYGIRL: The New Conversation: DEI and Social Justice

  
• FLYGIRL: Acknowledge Obstacles - Don't Give Them Power

  

Vernice Armour Speaking Topics

• A NEW CONVERSATION: ACTIVELY TRANSFORMING A COMPANY, CULTURE AND COUNTRY

  This isn’t about politics; this is about being proactive. This is about coming together and deciding what we can do as an organization to create an equitable culture for employees, stakeholders, and customers that serves all involved. Where ALL can feel like they belong. Where all feel like they are part of the team. This is about establishing rules of engagement for civil, productive conversations that find solutions, not fault. Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour was a diversity officer for U.S. Marine Corps HQ and liaison to the Pentagon. As a gay, Black woman she brought valuable personal experience to her work, driving diversity policy for a 200,000 personnel organization. When you bring people together, you will have differences and similarities that result in tension and complexities…THIS IS NORMAL! How you MANAGE diversity is the key!

  SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

  • Why it’s time to turn THE Conversation into a NEW Conversation

  • Ways to face uncomfortable issues without playing ostrich

  • How to prevent a counter-productive herd mentality

  • Set an example of civility and motivate people to respond in kind

  • Create a culture that values and respects all team members

  TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: Belonging, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Organizational Culture, Teamwork

• WHO NEEDS A RUNWAY? TAKE OFF FROM WHERE YOU ARE

  Helicopter pilots can spring into action from where they are. They don’t need a runway. Being nimble gives them an incredible edge in battle. Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour thinks this metaphor is perfect for uncertain times where speed and agility are survival skills. FlyGirl not only fires up an audience – in-person and virtually – with her energy and memorable stories, she punctuates hard-learned lessons with tactics that can be used to quickly adapt to the forces of change impacting your organization. This presentation is perfect for audiences navigating uncertainty, new regulations, unparalleled market forces, or looking to accomplish audacious goals. Give your group the necessary boost to come together as a team and innovate quickly and confidently.

  SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

  • Recognize and take decisive action to capitalize on a defining digital moment

  • The situation is never perfect – gain momentum from where you are

  • Decide, Commit, Execute

  • Recognize and harness the skills and talents of everyone around you

  • Create a “Zero to Breakthrough” culture

  TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: Change, Inspiration, Overcoming Adversity, Innovation

• GET GUTSY – HARNESS A BREAKTHROUGH MINDSET

  How you respond to personal and professional obstacles, adversity, and disappointment is a choice. It also determines your future. Black, gay, and a child of divorce, Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour learned this early. Her incredible journey – from police department to the Marines and becoming America’s first Black female combat pilot – was filled with challenges, adventures, successes, and ultimate triumph. She translates those lessons for audiences, drawing from her book Zero to Breakthrough – The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter. FlyGirl is a force who will rock the house! Her energy, enthusiasm, and positivity inspire people to Get Gutsy and reimagine what’s possible.

  SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

  • 7 steps shatter limiting beliefs, unleashing personal and professional breakthroughs

  • Swap a defeating “Zero Mentality” with a winning “Breakthrough Mentality”

  • Delay is not Denial, and to Retreat does not mean Defeat

  • Tactics to ignite your passion and design the path to your dreams

  TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: Inspiration, Positivity, Resilience, Motivation, Achieving Big Goals, Overcoming Obstacles

• ONE MISSION – ONE GOAL – ONE TEAM

  Gutsy Leaders create Gutsy Teams that make Gutsy Moves. Be proactive – not reactive; that’s how the best organizations create the future. It begins by summoning the courage to change tactics and align. Drawing on a distinguished career as a U.S. Marine combat helicopter pilot, Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour unloads valuable lessons learned under the most stressful of circumstances – about leadership, teamwork, resilience, communication, execution, and building a culture of unshakable trust. A compelling storyteller who commands attention – in-person or virtually, FlyGirl inspires audiences and shows them the key steps to achieving more than they ever thought possible.

  SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

  • Create a culture of trust where everyone steps up, engages, and collaborates

  • How really knowing your people can harness skills, talents & hidden passions

  • Unleash the full potential of diversity to impact the bottom line

  • Disrupt traditional metrics of success (measure more than money)

  • How to decide when to plant and when to pivot

  TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: Leadership, Teamwork, Execution, Inspiration, Creating High Performing Culture, Improving Trust, Diversity, Accountability

• Driving Diversity Deep into the DNA of Your Organization: One Mission, One Goal, One Team

  In this speech, Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour—a former diversity officer for Headquarter Marine Corps and liaison to the Pentagon—reveals what it took to help a 200,000-personnel organization get back on track. She explains how, when you bring people together, it is normal to have differences and similarities that result in tension and complexities, but that what is key is how you manage that diversity.

  The leader will discover how to: Know your people and harness the power, skills, and talents of the team. Unleash the full potential of diversity to impact the bottom line. Effectively tap into the power of the Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Teach everyone to be an ambassador for diversity. Create a culture that values and respects all team members: One Mission, One Goal, One Team!

• 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! FlyGirl 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 Breakthrough Results!

  This speech will give your attendees an invigorating perspective that reveals how to:

  Infuse passion in your life professionally and personally! Recognize and utilize the skills and talents of everyone around you. Lead a Zero to Breakthrough life with a "Breakthrough Mentality" as the foundation. Unleash your full potential, no matter where you are personally starting from.

Vernice Armour News

• Women on front lines? Of course - CNN.com

  Editor's note: Captain Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour is America's first African-American female combat pilot, having flown AH-1W Super Cobra Attack Helicopters for ...