Afterburner, Inc.

Corporate Execution Strategists

Afterburner, Inc.

Corporate Execution Strategists

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Biography

Afterburner is a diverse team composed of current and former Fighter Pilots. Their keynote speakers take the mindset and ways of working they learned in the cockpit of their high-performance fighter jets and transfer those lessons into your organization.

Thousands of companies including Microsoft, Google, Home Depot and Nike have all learned the secrets to accelerating the development of their strategy and execution—and you can too! From executive leaders to the frontline team, Afterburner’s programs are crafted to inspire your leaders and their teams to consistently surpass expectations!

Afterburner’s dynamic, high-energy keynote speakers will inspire your audience to take action and set the foundation for you to build highly engaged, outcome-focused teams. They’ll bring out your inner fighter pilot and show you what it’s like at the edge of the human performance envelope, physically and mentally. Afterburner keynote options include:

Inspirational 1 pilot Keynote—A high energy, interactive presentation to include inspiration, storytelling, audience participation and concrete takeaway. They will customize the content to hone in on concrete tools that drive lasting impact for your audience.
Signature 2 pilot Keynote—The additional pilot provides an incredible stage dynamic and really drives home the concept of teamwork and collaboration. The pilots both speak from the stage and during their interactive pieces, the second pilot uses the roving mic. Importantly, this is also experiential so both pilots remain behind for photo ops and attend any social functions. Two pilots means there's more to go around!
CEO Keynote: Christian "Boo" Boucousis—You get Afterburner's CEO, Christian “Boo” Boucousis and their Flawless Leadership keynote. Boo is an accomplished entrepreneur who started out life as a fighter pilot and turned the fighter pilot mindset into a number of multi-million-dollar businesses. Ten years ago he started speaking and now he shares how the fighter pilot mindset and ways of working to effectively lead in business, or—Flawless Leadership.

Speaker Videos

Christian 'Boo' Boucousis CEO Afterburner high performance speaker keynote

Afterburner Keynotes: Learn How To Think Like A Fighter Pilot!

What is Flawless Execution? | Afterburner, Inc.

Client Testimonials about Afterburner's High-Energy Fighter Pilot Speakers | Afterburner, Inc.

Client Testimonials about Debriefing and the Fighter Pilot Mindset | Afterburner, Inc.

Aerospace Maintenance Competition 2019 | Atlanta, GA

Afterburner Keynotes: Learn How To Think Like A Fighter Pilot!

Flawless Leadership Workshop | Equip leaders with the mindset and skills to lead people and outcomes

Debrief Workshop | Effectively capture lessons learned to make more informed decisions in the future

Planning Workshop | Motivate teams and elevate your strategy by focusing on the critical actions

CEO Christian 'Boo' Boucousis explains Flawless Execution

Afterburner Keynotes: Learn How To Think Like A Fighter Pilot!

Afterburner's Top Gun Experience: Unleash Your Team's Inner Maverick

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Speech Topics

The Fighter Pilot Mindset

Do you sometimes feel like your business (or life!) is running you, and you’re on the ride? We call that “falling behind the airplane.” You want to be ahead of the airplane—driving your life and business in the right direction! One step ahead, making great decisions, becoming the person or team you always knew you could be.

Task Saturation

We’ve all experienced it. What do you do when you have too much on your plate and you’re lacking the time, tools, or resources to achieve success? Flawless Execution FLEX, or “Flawless Execution”—the ability to take an idea or strategy and get it executed on a daily basis at every level of your organization through an intuitive cycle of PLAN, BRIEF, EXECUTE and DEBRIEF.

Flawless Leadership

Leadership made simple. Our elite military experience enables us to develop strong, effective leaders in a very short amount of time—all with a proven system for continuous leadership development training.

The Debrief Culture

Imagine an environment where everyone has a say, you’re constantly adapting and evolving to the world around you and you're able to work in a radically transparent and accountable environment. That’s a debrief culture, we’ll show you how.

Flawless Sales

Our team of elite military speakers are experts at aligning teams and work efforts across diverse teams to create a culture dedicated to Flawless Execution.

Testimonials

"Afterburner is a solid way to form and develop strategies and tactics. Afterburner is an outstanding program to help focus a diverse team around a common objective and drive towards a plan of attack that everyone agrees with. It helps your team focus on a specific goal, which is the hardest part in the planning process."

- Cisco Systems

"Even four months later, people are still talking about Afterburner Seminars. Your portion of the meeting really had a big impact on our managers. Plan, Execute, and Debrief are terms we hear around the office now. I feel we have built a great working relationship and I look forward to our next project together."

- Sprint

"The Afterburner team obviously spent an incredible amount of prep time getting to know our business and our competition. This enabled them to walk in speaking our language, which earned instant credibility with our senior leadership team. It opened the door to some great discussion around improving how we work together - the result of which has already made us a more effective team."

- Bank of America

"Having been involved with many team building type exercises before, I can honestly say yours was the most relevant, practical, entertaining and thought-stimulating program I have ever seen."

- IBM Credit Corporation

"Sincerest thanks to Afterburner Seminars for the great seminar last week. I’ve received a lot of good feedback on it, as well as several inquiries from general agents about how they might contact you to discuss programs. The top executive for my line of business was delighted with it."

- Vice President, MassMutual

"Your ability to customize the program and relate it directly to our industry was outstanding. Our franchise owners and staff were able to walk away with not only a memorable experience but some very practical tools for improving their business."

- Assistant Vice President, Marketing, Interim Healthcare

"Well, you did it again! The impact of your presentation made a big impression on all the senior managers in our company. The effects of your work for my division last year still lingers as our professional staff uses that experience in their day-to-day affairs."

- -Senior Vice President, Zurich Insurance Group

"I knew my mission was accomplished when I saw every one of my managers taking notes during your entire speech. The feedback following your presentation was equally satisfying. Many of our managers personally thanked me for bringing in your team building program, and are now planning to use you for their future events."

- Merck & Co, Inc.