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Keynote Speaker Anthony "AB" Bourke
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In addition to rising to the top of the aviation community, AB has built a business career on sales excellence. After achieving accolades as Top Producer in the Western US for a prominent lending institution, AB led a team of 40 professionals to grow revenue at a California based start-up company from $500,000 to $65M in just three years. A quintessential sales professional, AB will teach your people that just like fighter pilots, great sales people are made not born. He draws comprehensive parallels between what makes great fighter pilots and what makes great sales people. For organizations looking to develop a sales team of Top Guns, this dynamic, interactive speech is a must!
All great leaders have a system for driving peak performance. This hard-charging, high-impact keynote offers your leaders the straightforward, critical tools that U.S. fighter pilots employ to lead their wingmen into the demanding environment of aerial combat. Learn how the best fighter squadrons and the best businesses in the world hire future leaders, how they then properly train those individuals, and continually promote a process of continuous improvement to stay one step ahead of the competition.
A high impact Keynote focusing on how the world’s most successful enterprises – where results truly matter achieve peak performance by creating a culture of honest and open feedback. At the conclusion of this multi-media presentation, your team will walk out the door with a clear understanding of the potential power of open feedback. They will also learn how a feedback gap can cripple an organization. Finally, they will see a clear path on how you can make open feedback an integral part of your culture.
Biography
Anthony “AB” Bourke is a highly experienced F-16 fighter pilot who has flown tactical missions in countries all over the world, accumulating more than 2,700 hours of flight time in numerous high performance aircraft. Following his impressive military career and subsequent success in the private sector, “AB”built Afterburner Inc., where he served as President and CEO of a global management training company that combined his love of business with his passion for tactical aviation. Under Bourke’s leadership, Afterburner grew into a best-in-class training company and was twice named one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing companies.
Today, as CEO & Founder of Mach 2 Consulting, Bourke brings his tactical knowledge and vast business experience to the forefront of the management training world. “AB” has travelled the globe sharing his message of peak performance with over 50,000 people in nine different countries, and is currently working on a book titled The Art of The Debrief.
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