We Build Flawless Leaders

Your leaders are well-intentioned and committed. They put in the work, yet overwhelm reigns supreme. We transform leaders from overwhelmed to impactful force multipliers. We call them Flawless Leaders.

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Modern Leaders are Drowning in Complexity
—And It’s Crushing Execution

Today’s leaders are overwhelmed, navigating extreme complexity, constant disruption, and never-ending pressure. They’re struggling to align teams, close execution gaps, and consistently deliver results in shorter timeframes and with fewer resources. Modern leadership is exhausting… when you don’t have leadership systems.

So you invest in leadership training, believing skill-building and inspiration will close the gap–did it work? Did it drive real, sustainable change or deliver significant, meaningful ROI? Would you be here if it had? The problem with most leadership training is that it only inspires in the moment. By Monday morning, the spark has faded, and nothing changes.

Without an anti-complexity framework to guide them, leaders fall back into reactivity, firefighting their way through the noise. The reality is simple: your leaders don’t need more motivation or skill-building. They need a system that makes leadership simple, scalable, actionable, and consistent across every level. They need a system that helps them cut through chaos, simplify complexity, and turn intention into impact.

Flawless Leadership℠: Modern Leadership, Made Simple

This isn’t just another training program—it’s a complete leadership operating system. Born in high-stakes military aviation, Flawless Leadership℠ is a simple, scalable framework that transforms potential into impact by addressing the three dimensions of leadership: Mindset, Method, and Moments.

3 M’S

MINDSET

Afterburner provides the mental foundation to turn complexity into clarity and pressure into precision through the Fighter Pilot Mindset℠.

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METHOD

Our system delivers systematic execution through the Flawless Execution℠ Cycle—Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief℠––establishing disciplined processes and consistent results that scale across any organization.

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MOMENTS

Leaders learn to maximize impact by mastering three distinct leadership moments—Leading People, Leading Impact, and Leading Now.

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We Don’t Just Teach Leadership. We Ignite It.

Your leaders face real pressure—they need real preparation. Afterburner experiences make learning visceral, emotional, and immediately actionable in your real-world challenges, not hypothetical scenarios. Give your leaders the keys to Flawless Leadership℠.

Leadership Keynote

Ignite transformation in under 90 minutes.

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Team Building Simulations

Test decision-making under pressure in ways leaders will never forget.

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Workshops

Transform strategy into execution with proven frameworks for planning, red teaming, and debriefing.

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Development Programs

Build systematic leadership capability that delivers lasting impact.

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The Journey to Flawless Leadership Starts Now

Your flight plan to Flawless Leadership℠ follows our proven Teach-Demo-Do progression, moving leaders from overwhelm to impact through four systematic phases:

Your Path to Flawless Leadership Starts Here

Step 1: Pre Flight

Impactful Keynotes

Step 2: Simulation

The “Top Gun” Experience

Planning Workshops

Debrief Workshops

The HDD Build

Step 3: Take off

Customized Workshops

Flawless Leadership Program

Flawless Leadership Coaching

Step 4: Hit Your Target

90-Day Accelerator

TEACH

DEMO

Your Path to Flawless Leadership Starts Here

TEACH

Step 1: Pre Flight

Impactful Keynotes

DEMO

Step 2: Simulation

The “Top Gun” Experience

Planning Workshops

Debrief Workshops

The HDD Build

Step 3: Take off

Customized Workshops

Flawless Leadership Program

Flawless Leadership Coaching

Step 4: Hit Your Target

90-Day Accelerator

Flawless Execution℠ (FLEX)

A post-action debrief is essential for continuous improvement. Using ORCA, teams review what worked, what didn’t, and why, allowing them to refine their approach and embed lessons learned.

With agility and situational awareness, teams are trained to adapt, maintaining momentum even when challenges arise.

Through structured communication, each team member understands their role and mission objectives, creating accountability and equipping every individual for success.

Start with a clear, actionable plan that sets objectives and anticipates challenges, creating alignment and setting priorities for flawless execution℠.

Develop specific, accountable actions that address the causes identified. Actions are clear, targeted improvements that help prevent past errors and reinforce successes, enabling teams to build incrementally on each experience.

For each result, ask, “Why?” This step seeks the root causes behind the outcomes, identifying factors that influenced performance, both positively and negatively.

Review the outcome of the objective, examining whether the intended impact was met and identifying both successes and any shortfalls.

Start with a clear understanding of what was intended to be achieved. The objective frames the purpose of the action and defines the standard of success.

PRE-FLIGHT (Teach – Foundation)

Afterburner builds contextual intelligence through three distinct leadership contexts––Leading People, Leading Impact, and Leading Now––to create leaders capable of meeting the demands of any moment.

SIMULATION (Demo – Demonstration)

Experiential programs create realistic pressure to practice leadership frameworks, creating the psychological safety for leaders to witness, reflect on, and adopt new leadership behaviors.

TAKEOFF (Do – Application)

Afterburner Workshops apply Flawless Leadership℠ directly to your strategic challenges, whether through mission planning, debriefing, or red teaming.

MISSION SUCCESS (Do – Mastery)

Development programs embed systematic leadership excellence at scale, creating behavioral change and measurable organizational impact. This engagement journey is designed to progressively build sustainable leadership excellence, taking your leaders from maximum effort to maximum impact.

Real Results. Proven ROI.

When your strategy depends on leadership, you can’t afford to experiment. With 2M+ leaders trained across 3,500+ organizations–including 85% of Fortune 50 companies–Afterburner delivers the proven results your business demands.

Stories like these aren’t exceptions. They’re the natural outcome of the Flawless LeadershipSM System.

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VMware – 12 Consecutive Quarters of YoY Growth With Strategic Planning

Using the Flawless Leadership℠ system, VMware unified global divisions around a single strategic vision, catalyzing 12 consecutive quarters of 20% year-over-year growth

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DSI – Surpassed Revenue Goal By 22% And Avoided Layoffs

After adopting Flawless Leadership℠, DSI achieved 122% of its revenue goal and successfully pivoted to a new product line during critical market disruption.

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Sage Intacct – Achieved 100% Sales Quota In 60 Days

The Channel Division experienced rapid transformation in alignment, focus, and process through Flawless Leadership℠, resulting in 100% achievement of its sales quota in just 60 days.

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Joe Army

President & CEO, Vapotherm
“What they taught us is now embedded in our DNA. Their methodology is the integral part behind our disciplined execution that allows our continued rapid and exponential growth.”

Todd Parker

Senior Vice President, Fannie Mae
“Our signature and highest profile program in the bank was behind schedule for some years. Within six months, leaders communicated more effectively, we had clarity around our roles, the execution team accelerated our program, and for the first time in years, we started hitting our milestones.”

Your Leadership Wingmen

There are few environments more complex than the cockpit of a fighter jet flying at 50,000 feet. In the high-speed, high-stakes world of military aviation, every decision carries consequences and every moment matters. This is where we learned leadership.

For nearly three decades, Afterburner has delivered trajectory-shifting results in high-stakes environments, earning the trust of global enterprises, elite sports teams, small businesses, and fast-scaling startups alike.

That’s because we’re more than speakers or trainers. We’re leadership wingmen. We know how to make complexity feel solvable, how to help leaders make confident decisions under pressure, and how to engineer results that last.

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Explore flight-tested leadership insights, execution strategies, and practical tools from fighter pilots who turn pressure into performance. Scan our latest briefings, debriefs, and field guides to install a Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief℠ cadence across your team.

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What’s At Stake?

The choice is clear. Without a proven system, leaders remain overwhelmed, strategies stall, and cultures fracture under pressure. But with Afterburner’s Flawless Leadership methodology, organizations build leaders who cut through complexity with clarity, lead with composure under pressure, and drive results to impact.

Over time, those leaders shape teams that trust one another, hold each other accountable, and scale performance far beyond the effort of any single individual.

Real Voices. Real Results.

Hear the takeaways from business leaders of various organizations following their Afterburner experience. Your team will benefit from one of our programs, too!

Take a brief peak behind the curtain to see what it’s like to experience one of our sessions at Afterburner. We’ve worked with numerous clients across various industries to tackle internal challenges.

Some teams are so busy executing their core operations, there is often little time left to review progress and changes you could make. Learn about the value of investing energy into the debriefing process.

Your Leaders Have Potential. Flawless Leadership Will Unlock It.

The path from overwhelm to impact begins with a consultation, where we’ll discuss your strategic vision and what’s overwhelming your leaders. From there, we help you design the right flight path—whether that’s a high-energy keynote to ignite momentum, a team building simulation to pressure-test performance, a workshop to resolve strategic challenges, or a development program to hardwire leadership behaviors across the organization.

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We Build Flawless Leaders

Modern Leaders are Drowning in Complexity —And It’s Crushing Execution

Flawless Leadership℠: Modern Leadership, Made Simple

3 M’S

MINDSET

METHOD

MOMENTS

We Don’t Just Teach Leadership. We Ignite It.

Leadership Keynote

Team Building Simulations

Workshops

Development Programs

The Journey to Flawless Leadership Starts Now

Your Path to Flawless Leadership Starts Here

Step 1: Pre Flight

Step 2: Simulation

Step 3: Take off

Step 4: Hit Your Target

Your Path to Flawless Leadership Starts Here

Step 1: Pre Flight

Step 2: Simulation

Step 3: Take off

Step 4: Hit Your Target

Flawless Execution℠ (FLEX)

PRE-FLIGHT (Teach – Foundation)

SIMULATION (Demo – Demonstration)

TAKEOFF (Do – Application)

MISSION SUCCESS (Do – Mastery)

Real Results. Proven ROI.

VMware – 12 Consecutive Quarters of YoY Growth With Strategic Planning

DSI – Surpassed Revenue Goal By 22% And Avoided Layoffs

Sage Intacct – Achieved 100% Sales Quota In 60 Days

Joe Army

Todd Parker

Your Leadership Wingmen

Stay Mission-Ready with Afterburner Insights

What’s At Stake?

Real Voices. Real Results.

Your Leaders Have Potential. Flawless Leadership Will Unlock It.

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Modern Leaders are Drowning in Complexity
—And It’s Crushing Execution