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Afterburner's fighter pilot-led management training develops leaders who think fast, act with clarity, and deliver. Start building alignment and execution.

Experiential team building drives real growth through hands-on challenges and reflection. Improve teamwork, communication, and results with this guide.

Choosing the right team building activity can drive better results. Learn how to match your goals, culture, and team dynamics to the perfect format.

Discover how the FLEX method helps leaders combat cognitive decline, sharpen decision-making, and stay ahead with powerful cognitive models like Situational Awareness and OODA Loop.

Effective leadership has never been more important than now. Society, on average, has a declining IQ. Learn how Flawless Leadership helps you stay ahead in a dulling world.

Discover new methods for building high performing teams. Empower your workforce with proven psychology-based strategies.

Unlock organizational success with Team Building Psychology insights. Enhance collaboration by understanding core motivations and behaviors.

Discover how to measure keynote impact on team performance. Gain insights that boost ROI and fuel organizational success.

Most leadership development training programs fail—costing businesses billions without delivering real results. Discover why traditional leadership development doesn’t work and how to implement a high-impact, action-driven approach that drives measurable success.

Discover simple ways to eliminate task saturation and reclaim productivity today. Learn efficient strategies to lighten workloads and energize teams.

Transform your workplace with strategies for a collaborative company culture. Learn how to break silos and create synergy for lasting success.

Discover how the subconscious leadership mind can boost decision-making, productivity, and creativity. Learn actionable techniques like visualization, affirmations, and habit stacking to enhance focus, emotional intelligence, and leadership performance with Afterburner’s proven frameworks.

Learn how to pick the perfect keynote speaker for your next event! Discover tips on aligning with culture, engaging audiences, and driving results.

Discover the signs that a corporate team-building event is needed, from low morale and poor communication to high turnover and a lack of collaboration.

Poor leadership affects more than morale, it hurts your bottom line. Discover how developing strong leaders can drive growth and prevent profit loss.

Explore essential leadership qualities that elevate teams and drive success. Learn how leaders inspire growth, boost morale, and achieve business goals.

High-impact leaders developed through Afterburner’s training can transform organizations and drive excellence in today’s environment.

Discover the important of debriefing and how your team can continuously grow using these best practices.

In this leadership symposium, our focus is on Flawless Leadership, a concept vital for navigating the complexities of leadership in the contemporary world.

Staying engaged in a very average sales kickoff can be a major struggle. Explore our tips for increasing enthusiasm.

Building trust as a leader in today’s rapidly-changing business world is hard. Learn the biggest challenges leaders face, & how to overcome.

The top 8 reasons your current strategy development and execution are keeping you from long-term growth in the face of a global pandemic.

Discover the strategic pivot and its crucial role in business adaptability. Empower your team with Afterburner's expertise for agile business.

Afterburner specializes in helping teams combat distractions, implement cross-checks into their workflow, and hit revenue targets.

Times of turbulence are not ideal for new leadership, as it symbolizes more change. Here are 3 steps new leaders must take for success.

Afterburner gets your team in a room with real Fighter Pilots so you can learn how to incorporate their mindset into your next corporate event.

Unlock better decisions with Debrief Culture. Explore fear's impact, continuous improvement, and breaking loops for enhanced decision-making.

Learn how the Debriefing Method, inspired by Fighter Pilots, can skyrocket productivity by 400%. Transform your business today!

Explore how the Harvard Business Review helps in mastering decision making in a challenging world.

Discover the transformative power of embracing failure through structured debriefing. Learn how adopting this practice can lead to continuous improvement, growth, and remarkable success.

Explore how Afterburner's Fighter Pilot Guide is the key to embracing disruption in a chaotic world.

Find out the importance of deep performance and how your team can leverage these strategies for better outcomes.

Success is a fundamental aspect of our lives. From the moment we start dreaming about our future goals, success becomes the benchmark of our accomplishments.

A one-day, high energy Afterburner experience is the fastest route to building excitement and inspiring your team to perform at their best.

Why building a solid team culture matters now more than ever, how to build a team culture that powers performance. Get six expert tips.

Learn how you can align your team within the right culture, mindset, and execution rhythm and end the year on a revenue high note.

Afterburner’s founder shares a winning back-to-basics approach to leadership in business, and why it’s key to navigating economic turbulence.

Learn how Afterburner can help your team overcome growing pains and take your growth to new heights by developing a common mental model.

Helping teams build a strong culture of collaboration and communication, through a framework informed by the ideals of elite military teams.

Afterburner Inc is collaborating with Paramount Pictures, CMX Cinemas, and Silverspot Cinema to host events in movie theaters across the country.

W will share the universal principles that companies are employing as they rapidly transform to capture emerging market opportunities.

Afterburner CEO Joel “Thor” Neeb, shares insights from assessments with dozens of companies and results that helped them make the right strategic shifts.

In this webinar, we share the universal principles that companies are employing to capture emerging market opportunities.

Disengaged workers cost the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year. But, it can be tough to motivate your employees when you're leading remotely.

Situational Awareness plays a vital role when executing in complex business environments. Here are 3 tips to improve your awareness.

How do you make sure you have the right team, and prevent task saturation? One answer lies in the practice of Task Shedding and Task Sharing.

The key to adapting to change is to create an agile workforce, something we can learn from the NFL.

It's annual strategic planning season, but there are lots of ways that it can go wrong. Watch these common mistakes so you can execute a successful strategic plan.

Every mission is faced with its own unique sets of challenges. Never assume that you’ve created the ‘perfect plan’ until you’ve done some red teaming.

Whether you’re outlining plans for future growth or determining a product roadmap, you’ll need a plan to get you across the finish line.

Explore the four common categories that are usually responsible for those problems that we help identify through root cause analysis.

Knowing and identifying all of your resources is what's going to allow your business to negate any threats and accomplish your goals.

Now that you’ve spent countless hours painting the Future Picture it’s time to set your team up to win.

Connecting strategy to action is vital to your success and we ensure that connection with The Brie.

The key to using technology as a strategic resource is to build momentum. Explore why a digital transformation should be a complete reboot.

Trust is key in all facets of your life, both personal and business related. Check out our guide on how to build trust within your team.

Simplicity is key when it comes to building your business strategy. We’ve put together some quick tips for you as you implement your business strategy.

Check out these helpful tips and a review about the book The Best Team Wins.

A truly unique professional team building course that can transforms your staff. How elite military training techniques can be applied to corporate environments

In this webinar, we will discuss the keys to creating a contingency strategy plan.|In this webinar, we will discuss the keys to creating a contingency strategy plan.

Afterburner offers seminars on strengthening communication and leadership strategies. If you're ready for our keynote, contact us today.

In this webinar, Joel “Thor” Neeb shares insights on building a diverse team and leads to inclusion and success.

Flawless Execution is not just a goal or a motto. It’s a methodology that was born and bred in the high stakes world of combat aviation.

Nurturing a strong, high-performing culture is the most difficult challenge a leader faces. Learn how to crack the culture code with flawless execution.

What actions can you take to build a high-performance team? The second part of our leadership development checklist deals with the idea of discipline.

What do leaders of high performing teams do? Our leadership development checklist can help you gain the skills you need to lead your high-performance team.

In this webinar, Joel "Thor" Neeb shares the top 3 challenges our sales team clients face and gives you actionable next steps to improve sales performance.

If Fighter Pilots devote time to learn from their actions, how can your business afford not to do the same? Learn to debrief like a pilot.

Principles by Ray Dalio is a mashup of autobiography and rules for living and working, including how to make decisions to flawlessly execute today.

Lessons learned are experiences distilled from a project that should be taken into account in future projects to fuel improvement efforts

Unlock your team's potential with The ORCA Debriefing Process, the secret to high-performing operations teams.

Many individuals and organizations struggle with business agility, but you don’t have to be one of them! Learn to be profitable in a turbulent environment.

Military leadership development and experience is a key component to driving success, especially in turbulent business environments.

The process of the Flawless Execution model were built on the success of small teams responding to immediate need.

If you cannot effectively connect strategy and execution, all that time spent in planning sessions can go to waste, losing the inspired alignment you built.

There are many ways you can boost your team performance: a few of our favorite tools include making use of checklists, and relying on mutual support.

Are you stuck in the cycle of repeating the same mistakes? Debriefing can help you break the cycle and achieve continuous improvement.|

Team building training in the business world bears many comparisons to a metronome in the musical world because of the crucial importance of rhythm.

The business section of your local bookstore is filled with business strategy titles, but we wanted to give some our favorite recommendations to guide you.

Why is it a critical professional team building exercise to look back at the successes and breakdowns of every one of your plans? To make the next one better.

When leaving the military, it’s hard to know if your skills and training will translate in civilian life. However, you could become an agile team veteran.

There are many uncontrollable threats that occur all throughout your strategic business plan: learn how to deal with surprises and the unexpected.

No matter your industry or title, sooner or later, everyone will experience a crisis. Learn the steps successful teams take to work through any crisis.

A Red Team is a peer review of strategic or project related plans. This team is asked to review a strategic business plan, and are essential for a business.

A great Red Team simulates first contact with your customer’s desires, your organization’s idiosyncrasies, your competition’s will, & drives team performance.

Flawless Execution, the model for building high performance teams and organizations we teach and use at Afterburner, is on display in Paul Zak's "Trust Factor.

To have success as a first-time actor, plan first. Know your mission plan, identify resources & threats, plan your course of action & have a contingency plan.

How you can add a Daily Stand-Up to your X-Gap cadence to increase team accountability and improve your execution velocity rate: why we love our stand-ups.

Building diverse teams can have a critical impact on your organization's long-term success. This checklist can help you build a diverse team.

Simple Lessons Learned on the global business battlefield that will improve your Organizational Change Management and Organizational Change Leadership.

In business and technology, organizational alignment is the foundation of DevOps success by providing clarity and purpose.

Describes to the reader the importance of communicating leaders intent and empowering decision makers as the most effective leadership skills training.

Afterburner delivers execution strategy by focusing on reducing the gaps in execution or what our Flawless Execution methodology calls X-Gaps.

Strategic alignment to a common goal is the key to a high-performing sales team.

How the simplicity of Flawless Execution allows organizations to reduce the complexity of change management in an ever-changing world.

A relevant team building seminar is part of the solution adapting our ancient instincts for working together as a team to the modern business environment.

How applying core aviation operations concepts, like mutual support, drastically improves team performance. "Not who's right, but what's right."

Few leaders have even a simple understanding of what mindfulness can mean to them and their team when building successful teams.

Across the years one profession has remained at the top of every prestige or respect poll: military officer. Translate that knowledge into successful teams.

Have you ever been invited to a collaboration or professional team building training and felt like you weren’t contributing your best ideas?

When teams and organizations fall short of expectations, team communication is often cited as a root cause. Learn to improve team communication with us.

Creativity and innovation in application development are, in many respects, a conditioned response to a problem or challenge.

Have you ever noticed how some people handle stressful decision making with remarkable composure? It's usually effective situational awareness that lets them.

Managing and overcoming innovation risk is one of the most overlooked risks in today’s business landscape: good strategic business planning ensures success.

It takes a lot of training to develop an effective leader. That's why Afterburner offers corporate leadership programs to teach the necessary skills.

Your organization is full of experience, but is it full of organizational learning? Find out how to get the most of your team.

Innovation rarely emerges quickly or without concentrated effort. Learn the keys to innovation, and lead your agile team to something great.

Abraham Lincoln led by walking around. That seems like a basic corporate leadership development concept easily understood, but much harder to practice.

For the past twenty years, our team has delivered experiential learning programs to every kind of organization. We specialize in creating successful teams.

Returning to civilian life was a very difficult decision to make, but on the other side of it I found Afterburner, and the Flawless Execution model.

In the Star Wars saga, the Empire is clearly a traditional waterfall, top-down, command-and-control based organization.

Jim "Murph" Murphy here, proud founder & CEO of a twenty-year-old company.

Meetings matter because they are the heartbeat of an organization's culture. Use our Flawless Execution model to get the most out of your meetings.

Military Veterans bring sound technical skills from the service, and life skills that make a great ScrumMaster, and make great team building consultants.

You can't avoid inaction. When you do act, it's best to go in with a clear, well-defined mission plan to help you achieve success. Contact us to learn more.

Afterburner Executive Consultant, Patrick "Lips" Houlahan is a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC).|

Building beneficial habits and culture are a big corporate leadership development challenge, but yield great rewards once picked up by your team.

With a Mission Command approach demonstrate the importance of giving your front line people the power to act with a bias to action.

The Debriefing Solution is for any team in any environment! It's a powerful tool used to enhance performance in just 20 minutes!

Check out our tips to creating your company's game plan.

A project comes to an end, and the team...does what? Smart teams always take time to do some Debriefing and gain Lessons Learned before they move on.

Task Saturation is nothing new. Overflowing inboxes and full schedules have become a way of life for many professionals today–and there lies the problem.|

Holding a pre-execution brief meeting can help you avoid task saturation, missed deadlines, and smothered productivity.

When dealing with strategic planning models it's important for organizations to permit failure.|