Our Focus on Flawless Execution

The best corporate strategies can fail if execution is flawed. At Afterburner Canada, we teach the principles and practices fighter pilots use to flawlessly execute their mission in combat. Our job is to improve your company's ability to execute in your own fast-paced, competitive environment. Whether you are in sales and marketing, operations, or management, Afterburner Canada can help you transform your team into a finely-tuned, competitive fighting force.

Our Team

The men and women on Afterburner Canada's team are uniquely qualified to teach the skills needed for breakthrough performance. These former and current fighter pilots have a powerful mix of combat experience and business skill. You will find entrepreneurs and corporate managers among the ranks—all of them highly talented keynote presenters and instructors.


Our Experience

We have trained over two million people in the world’s leading corporations. We know the training business inside and out and can deliver our services flawlessly anytime, anywhere.


Our Take-Away Value

People want something they can immediately put into practice, and their managers want something that will last. Afterburner content is practical and easy to use. Because we employ such unique imagery, people remember it. Our customers often use our language and principles years after our events. Don’t take our word for it, read what some of our clients have said.


"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 use that experience in their day-to-day affairs".

Kenneth J. Berger
Senior Vice President
Zurich Insurance Group
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"The impact that the Afterburner Seminar had was incredible. Not only was it the highest rated segment of our annual meetings, but our store managers have begun to apply what they learned on a day to day basis. The Afterburner Seminar received a standing ovation after every one of its programs. This has never happened before".

David Bogage
Director of Management Development
Home Depot
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"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".

Greg Slaight
Program Manager
Sprint
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Our Availability

We are not a single-personality organization. With a team of 50 top-notch presenters and facilitators, we can be many places at one time. We are always available when you need us. In our seven years of business, we have never turned down an engagement.


Our Client List

Afterburner has trained nearly 100 of the Fortune 500 companies. Our customers come from practically every industry - from information technology, to manufacturing, to dentistry. Click here to see our client list.


Our High Energy Presentations

You can’t get much higher energy than an Afterburner event! From the time you enter the auditorium with Top Gun music blasting to the event’s conclusion, your people will be engaged, learning, excited and having a great time. Just read what some of our clients have said.


"We have had various speakers and seminars over the last 20 years, but none as invigorating and as on target as yours. As you know, we have a very aggressive group of sales guys that are tough to keep involved for more than 15 minutes. You guys kept them on the edge of their seats for 4 hours".

Scott Jordan
Executive Vice President
Ted Lansing Corporation
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"From the minute the training started through the rest of the day, the iForce partners and Sun reps were highly engaged... We have received nothing but outstanding feedback from our reps and partners concerning the content and appropriateness of the training".

Barry Williams
Regional Director
Sun Microsystems
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Our Practice of Exceeding Customer Expectations

We know that a meeting can make or break the career of a meeting planner. Our goal is to make your life easy and make you the hero. We take control of the whole event, keep you in the loop every step of the way and deliver more than you expect.


"There comes a time in a meeting planners life when the event planned exceeds his or her expectations. For the moment you and your team of facilitators burst through the doors at breakfast, you had the individual attention of every attendee. The Afterburner Team far exceeded their advance press".

Ben Cornett
Executive Vice President
Ademco Group
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"I must say that your seminars and workshop were the reason for the most successful event ever in our history. Those are not only my words but exact comments received from members of our sales team".

Mona Lisa Sims
Director of Sales and Marketing Programs
System One Amadeus
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Our Main Speakers

If you are looking for a guy in a blue suit to talk about coping with change, then Afterburner is probably not for you. But if you are looking for a speaker that breaks the mold and makes your people sit up and listen, we can help. Our speakers are among the best in the business. Their credentials command attention, they know how to create instant rapport with audiences, and they communicate and connect with everyone from executives to mid-level managers to hourly salespeople.

Our Highly Customized Presentations

Afterburner leads the industry in customization. No other speaker or training company comes close. Even our one-hour keynote presentations are highly customized with content relating directly to your leadership, corporate staff, industry, competitors, and strategic objectives. With Afterburner, you are not getting a canned presentation we’ve given 100 times; you get training content that is specifically designed for your business. Click here for a sample copy of our pre-event document


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

Jennifer Eggers
VP of Leadership Development
Bank of America
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Our Diversity

Only 3 women have ever been qualified as CF-18 fighter pilots. At Afterburner Canada, we’re proud to have one of those three women on our team. As well, we offer all of our programs in both English and French.


"Initially, I must admit there was concern in my office that your program might be too "macho" or male-oriented for our people. As it turned out, nothing could be further from the truth. I found your program to be well suited for our entire group. In fact, the feedback was as strong from our female practitioners as from the males".

Ed Eschbach
Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting
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"One other point. Our concerns over the Afterburner's theme being "too" macho for the women of the group turned out to be totally unfounded. All of the women in our company really got into the breakout exercises".

Mark McGraw
Manager of Sales - EMT Americas
Philips Electronic Manufacturing Technology, Americas
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Our Cutting-Edge Instructional Design

You will never get a talking head when you work with Afterburner. We carefully design every service we offer using state-of-the-art instructional design. No listener sits for an extended period without a change of activity. We use a wide variety of media, including video, graphics presentations, interactive team-building games and application exercises. We create environments that appeal to different learning styles, engaging people intellectually and emotionally through the power and energy of our presentations.


"We have had various speakers and seminars over the last 20 years, but none as invigorating and as on target as yours. As you know, we have a very aggressive group of sales guys that are tough to keep involved for more than 15 minutes. You guys kept them on the edge of their seats for 4 hours".

Scott Jordan
Executive Vice President
Ted Lansing Corporation
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Our Reputation

Afterburner is an in-demand, highly respected company, represented by the nation’s leading speakers bureaus, including Washington Speakers Bureau, Leading Authorities, and Keppler. When you hire Afterburner, you hire not only our abilities but a reputation that encourages even the most skeptical senior executive to make room in his schedule.

Our Press

An Inc. 500 company, Afterburner has been featured in almost all major U.S. business publications, including the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Meetings and Conventions Magazine named Afterburner "The hottest speakers on the circuit right now". Click here for recent Afterburner Press.

Our Depth

What does your company do after the event? Afterburner has become a legend in the event business, but that is only a part of what we do. We are a full-service leadership development organization, focusing on executive assessment, coaching and corporate transformation. With good post-event follow-through (one of our ‘fighter-pilot’ principles of flawless execution), Afterburner can help bring about rapid organizational change that tangibly improves execution and performance. Our arsenal of services will improve execution at every level–from the individual to the global enterprise.

Our Value Pricing

With Afterburner, there are no hidden costs to worry about. Since we have facilitators located in every part of the country, our travel costs are very reasonable, and we always fly economy airfare.


Our International Appeal

Afterburner has international appeal. In addition to Canada, Afterburner has offices in the UK, Australia and the United States, and we’ve conducted events in more than thirty countries around the world. Our materials have been translated into more than 20 languages. We even have translators who convey our concepts with the same level of enthusiasm and professionalism of our US instructors. In fact, Afterburner has held events with real-time translations into multiple languages simultaneously!

"I wanted to let you know how powerful the Afterburners keynote address was for our international team that came together in Paris earlier this month…iMediation highly recommends Afterburner Seminars to other international companies where the competition is fierce and the team needs fusion and motivation".

Jeff Morgan
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing
iMediation, Inc.
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Our Evaluations

Over 90 percent of our evaluations score either a 9 or a 10. Here are a few quotes from our clients. Click here for all of our client testimonials.


"You should be proud to know that when the evaluations were tabulated, Afterburners scored a perfect 5.0. The insight gained from fighter pilots’ examples will help us better understand how we can achieve our mission objectives…"

Anthony S. Marino
Director, Human Resources
Allied Signal
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"The session has received some of the most positive feedback that we have ever received. More importantly, we plan to use the concepts of planning, execution and debriefing in our daily sales management jobs".

Dick Anderson
Group President
BellSouth
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