The Ademco Group Sales Meeting of 1999 will forever be remembered as the greatest event we have ever experienced. The Afterburner Team far exceeded their advance press. We truly believe our people at all levels benefited greatly from the time spent with your group.

Ben Cornett
Executive Vice President
Ademco Group
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Outstanding! The Afterburners seminars taught us how to better be prepared to deal with real life issues such as task saturation, problem solving, communication and competition. I would recommend your group to any business that is serious about taking their employees to the next level.

Joe Cappelletti
President
ADI
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The Albertson's corporation, having recently been a recipient of a Afterburner Seminar, wholeheartedly endorses and recommends this process for any organization. The principles and ideas experienced during the Afterburner Seminar are actively being used today by all the integration teams involved in the merger transition process.

Patrick S. Steele
Senior Vice President
Albertsons
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They gripped our attention, and left us with some good takeaways and executed their mission flawlessly. We are considering a full day seminar for our next major product launch.

David R. Engwall
Director, National Sales
Advanced Sterilization Products
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My colleagues and I were not only impressed with your creativity and professionalism during the speaker segments, but also how relevant and educational the breakout sessions proved to be. SPG learned a great deal from the Afterburner Seminars and we look forward to carrying this knowledge into our business at American Express.

Tricia M. Barchitta
Strategic Planning Group
American Express
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...our attendees were definitely equipped with new strategies and tactics to improve team work, thwart channelizing and minimize task saturation in the workplace. You were definitely a hit with the American Red Cross and we truly appreciate your interest in learning as much as you could about the particular challenges faced by Red Cross fund raisers.

Amy Odell
Senior Director, Office of Events Management
American Red Cross
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The concepts that we were taught "Brief, Execute, Debrief" were so relative to our business that I find our staff now applying these approaches in their daily business dealings.

William L. Ashton
Vice President, Corporate Accounts
AMGEN
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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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All of the comments I heard back from our people echoed the same sentiment, "Best seminar I've ever been to and it was the highlight of our meeting." I assure you those are great accolades from a group like ours.

Jay F. Heinrich
Vice President
Batesville Casket Company
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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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I can now attest that Afterburner Seminars is literally the "hottest" seminar sweeping the country today... Our associates were thrilled with the completely different training tactic utilized by Afterburner Seminars. Our 2000 Sales Conference will go down in history as one of the finest.

Donna L. Tomlinson
Senior Executive Assistant
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
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...2000 was a bit of an "off" year for Cabot's total sales and our troops needed to be re-charged and re-focused on their missions for 2001. Your message spoke to exactly that mission and was delivered with sincere passion and excitement.

Betty Reily
Marketing Services Manager
Samuel Cabot Inc.
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...an enormous success. The impact on the attendees reverberated throughout the rest of the meeting. The group was amazed and delighted with the customization of the seminar to the pipeline industry and Colonial.

W.D. Scott
Senior Vice President & Chief Operations Officer
Colonial Pipeline Company
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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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I can honestly say that the seminar significantly exceeded expectations and was the highlight of our meeting. We enjoyed the fact that the seminar was delivered in a very professional manner, and had the right blend of pertinent business focus delivered in a light-hearted and fun way.

Michael McCarthy
Senior Vice President
ditech.com
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I cannot convey to you how enjoyable and beneficial the Afterburner seminar was for our Field Management team! ...Thank you for teaching us the lessons of planning, executing, and debriefing. We are now ready to tackle the toughest competitors from a new perspective and ensure that we win the war!

Thomas J. Bowyer
Senior Vice President, Sales and Operations
Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.
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WOW! That pretty much sums up the reaction of our Conference attendees at the end your presentation. Drury Hotels has had a number of Keynote speakers over the years and, each year we strive to exceed the expectations of our attendees while providing them with relevant, useful tools to help them be more effective on the job…Your presentation was a unique experience that I know every attendee will remember for quite some time. Your knowledge of our industry and your knowledge of Drury Hotels helped make the presentation relevant and real. You related the material to the day-in-day-out activities of our Management Team and the issues they deal with.

Chuck Drury
President
Drury Inns, Inc.
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Your energy and analogies really hit the mark. After your presentation, the team really understands that business is war and speed and agility are the ingredients for success. Your message certainly made an impact.

Gary W. Hansen
Vice President, Marketing Communications
E.W. Blanch Holdings
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Congratulations!!! You did it! We are getting rave reviews on your session and the two of you as presenters. Your professionalism, ability to connect with your audience and knowledge of your subject all came through. Thanks for adding greatly to our program and for helping us maintain the level of excellence our association expects. You were awesome!


Kristine M Wilkerson
President
Executive Women International
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Your specific knowledge of our business was very impressive and the facilitation of the program, including the "Mission Planning Exercise", "Task Saturation" and subsequent debriefs were excellent. The evaluations of your presentation were very high and certainly reflect the amount of preparation and time spent by you and your team.

Carolyn J. Clark
Vice President
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
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The following quotes reflect a sampling of the feedback from this exciting seminar: "Excellent brainteasers and thought provocation", "Excellent facilitators...lots of fun", "Great execution", and "Task Saturation segment - particularly the video - hit home". Thanks for a great event.

Bob Palmer
Vice President
Federal Express
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I was very impressed with the professionalism and degree of scrutiny you displayed in your researched of Fisher & Paykel prior to our Business Is Combat day. The entire day was presented with precision planning and enthusiasm. The execution was believable and you cleverly turned your experiences as a fighter pilot into an extremely motivating experience for our entire sales force. It's been a very educational experience for me personally, which is not an easy task as I have sat through many sales meetings running the gamut from motivational speakers to many team building exercises.

Mike Goadby
President
Fisher & Paykel
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You guys totally exceeded our expectations! ...Wish you could have heard the breakout sessions results. They came back with some interesting and creative ways to utilize checklists and cross checks in our daily operations...I have a feeling Afterburner seminars will be back at FPL!

Adelberto "Al" Alfonso
Vice President
FPL
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