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Afterburner, Inc.

Elite Military Fighter Pilots

Afterburner Inc is a team of elite military professionals that are experts in helping your team pursue Flawless Execution. Using Afterburner’s Flawless Execution methodologies we can help take your team to the next level in performance.

Alden Mills

Entrepreneur, Navy SEAL Commander & Author of Be Unstoppable & Build Unstoppable Teams

Alden Mills first started taking control of his life at age twelve—when his doctor told him to learn chess because his childhood asthma would keep him from playing sports. His mother stepped in, telling Alden that he should never let someone else decide his future.

Anthony "AB" Bourke

CEO & Founder of Mach 2 Consulting

Anthony “AB” Bourke is a highly experienced F-16 fighter pilot who has flown tactical missions in countries all over the world.

Captain Ron Johnson, Retired

Best Known for Settling the 2014 Protests in Ferguson, Missouri

On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited protests throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Carey Lohrenz

The First Female F-14 Fighter Pilot

In her motivating and engaging keynote presentations, Carey Lohrenz shares her fascinating experiences operating in one of the world’s most challenging environments– an aircraft carrier. She can help your team triumph in this high-risk, time-crunched world.

Dennis Brouwer

Proven Turnaround Leader & Certified Leadership Professional

In a rich and varied career, Dennis Brouwer has led a team of business development professionals with P&L responsibility for over $3b in global revenue, launched or revamped over 100 products and services and personally led the turnaround of a failing $300m IT services business. He’s logged nearly 1,000 hours and 200 carrier landings in Navy jets, and as an award-winning tactician, found a Soviet submarine in the one place it wasn’t supposed to be. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching program and the author “The Return on Leadership, a book that defines and quantifies the impact of the leader on growth in people, teams, and markets.

J.R. Martinez

Burn Survivor, Army Veteran, Actor, & Bestselling Author

J.R. Martinez is an Army veteran, burn survivor, actor, motivational speaker, New York Times best-selling author, and Dancing with the Stars season 13 winner. J.R. travels the world spreading his message of resilience and optimism and does it all with a smile.

James Lawrence

Top Motivational Speaker, Endurance World Record Holder, Triathlete, and Subject of the documentary The Iron Cowboy: The Story of the 50.50.50

While James is an astonishing athlete and a successful brand builder, he is primarily a master of mindset, of focus, and of overcoming doubt and personal limits. He talks about the incredible power of hope and teamwork. He talks about accountability. He teaches people to remove excuses from their own lives in order to unlock their own, unseen abilities. Whether speaking to a room full of C-suite leaders, an international sales team, or a finely tuned military group, James’ expertise is in teaching people to change how they think in order to remove self-imposed limits.

Jason O. Harris

Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Professional Pilot

Lt Col (ret) Jason O. Harris understands the crucial importance of trust. For over 25+ years, he has flown thousands of flights as a US Air Force pilot and commercial airline pilot. Whether flying cargo and personnel into enemy territory or travelers to Paris, every single flight has required absolute trust between him and his crew. It's a lesson that's been reinforced mission after mission, flight after flight: Trust your people like your life depends upon it.

But Jason doesn't just understand the importance of trust; he knows how to build it-through a culture of deep commitment, accountability, and empowerment.

As a Squadron Commander and Instructor at the US Air Force Academy, he discovered the principles behind the trust he experienced in the cockpit. As he implemented those principles in his squadron, he saw trust skyrocket, performance improve, and engagement increase.

Today he shares these principles through keynotes, training, and video courses with organizations ready to move beyond average and empower their leaders and teams with No Fail Trust®.

Laila Ireland

Transgender Veteran & Activist

Veteran Laila Ireland courageously came out as a transgender service member by sharing her story in the Emmy-nominated short film "Transgender, at War and in Love." Today, Laila advocates for LGBTQIA equity by speaking across the country and establishing safe spaces for this critical conversation.