Afterburner Inc.

Flawless Execution

Learn how Fighter Pilots plan for a mission using the "Six Steps to Effective Combat Mission Planning". Communicate the plan to maximize the quality of front-line execution. Discover how Fighter Pilots ensure Flawless Execution in their missions by eliminating performance-draining Task Saturation. Implement nameless/rankless feedback sessions in your squadron to guarantee maximum learning.

Leading Flawless Execution from the Top with Jim Murphy

Afterburner’s leadership keynote speaker Jim Murphy has helped top business leaders transform strategy into action. Historically fewer than 20% of all initiatives actually get accomplished. This keynote will help align your team around your strategy and understand exactly what to do and how to do it. This 60-90 minute keynote is based on Jim Murphy’s ground breaking book ‘Flawless Execution’.

Flawless Sales Execution

When the economy is great, you can tolerate sales teams that are less than flawless, but what happens when the tables are turned and the economy isn't doing so great? You can't afford to have your sales teams operate at only a fraction of their potential. Your sales teams should hit their numbers not 70%, not 80%, but 100% of the time. But how can sales teams really improve their performance overnight? The answer…Afterburner brings you Flawless Sales Execution. Your sales teams are capable of success in any environment- hostile or calm. The power to lead your sales teams to victory can be found in this sales keynote presentation.

The Afterburner Day

The Afterburner Day is an interactive, hands-on experience where your team will compare the similar situations faced in business and in air combat. During the Afterburner Day, your group will work side by side with some of America's top Fighter Pilots and learn how they excel in the business of combat.

Leaning Forward

Leaning Forward is an interactive, corporate event program where your team will learn, via lecture and experiential learning, how fighter pilots strive for flawless execution in every single mission. Your group will work side-by-side with some of America's top fighter pilots and learn how they excel in the business of combat. Our Afterburner team brings these lessons to your own business environment, in living color, using a multimedia presentation, a role playing breakout session with experienced military fighter pilots as facilitators, and punctuated by an intensely climatic and motivational closing. The energy and skill training of this event will improve your group's performance at every level.

Afterburner Incorporated was founded in 1996 by James D. Murphy, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, who realized the applicability and value to business of the tools he learned in the 'zero tolerance for error' world of military aviation. Since then, Afterburner has trained over 1.5 million managers and executives in the simple, scalable, continuous improvement processes of Flawless ExecutionSM through a variety of corporate training workshops and team building events. The Flawless ExecutionSM model, developed by Afterburner from both their business experiences as well as strategic and tactical military execution, is delivered to clients (including corporations of all sizes, meeting planners and groups, and trade associations) through its Three E's - Empower, Equip and Embed. Empower's team building events and corporate training workshops, in particular, include keynote speeches and the legendary "Afterburner Day" team-building experience.

Afterburner has landed on Inc. Magazine's "Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest Growing Companies" twice and has been featured regularly in publications that include The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Financial Times, Newsweek, and Meetings and Conventions Magazine. Afterburner has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg News. Murphy is also the author of Business Is Combat, now in its third printing, and his latest book, Flawless Execution.