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Jack Becker is a leadership, teamwork, human performance, process improvement, and safety expert whose years of expertise inspired him to found Flight Level Solutions, Inc. Now, Jack has successfully adapted the same peak human performance skills that made him successful flying combat missions in the F/A-18 Hornet, to training companies striving to perform at Top Gun levels. He served as a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier-based F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter pilot, instructor pilot, landing signal officer, quality assurance officer, and crew resource management instructor. 

Jack Becker has over 2,500 hours flying supersonic fighter jets and has logged 10,000 hours guiding Naval aircraft safely back onto the carrier deck.  Jack brings the same passion and excitement to each keynote speech he delivers. He is a decorated combat veteran, having flown numerous high-profile missions in the Middle East. 

As one of the Navy’s most highly decorated Landing Signals Officers (LSO), Jack Becker was instrumental in incorporating the process improvement model of CRM to help pilots improve quickly while landing supersonic fighter jets on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. He was responsible for over 21,000 mishap-free carrier landings. Jack’s unique experience as both an LSO and as the Navy’s top CRM instructor, he saw an opportunity to relay the same skills of Brief-Execute-Debrief-Perfect to the American workplace. From healthcare groups to manufacturing, construction, sales teams, and insurance firms, Jack’s dynamic keynotes and workshops leave a lasting impression.

Jack Becker earned a BS in Political Science emphasizing organizational leadership from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he competed as a varsity football and ice hockey player.

Currently, he serves as CEO of Flight Level Solutions, Inc., a human performance and organizational execution consultancy. Jack Becker also continues to model his ‘repeat your successes and eliminate mistakes’ mindset in the civilian sector as an international, wide-body airline Captain and evaluator instructor pilot. He lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his wife, three young daughters, and dopey golden retriever.

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Supersonic Success

In this exhilarating keynote, combat decorated fighter pilot Jack Becker equips your team with the precise protocols that enable elite military aviators to optimize performance and execute under pressure while continually accelerating improvement.
Jack's process creates a psychologically safe environment where people can speak openly, share strengths and weaknesses without fear, enjoy high EQ and vulnerability as a team, and know their inputs truly matter.
This action-packed keynote is a results-based adventure leaving teams inspired to continually improve both professionally and personally exactly as elite fighter pilots do. Jack’s simple and repeatable process will teach your team how to repeat successes and not repeat failures. Your team will simply make fewer mistakes!
Perfect for every level throughout your organization. Make your team agile and cohesive with this process of continual improvement. From management and sales teams to construction crews or anyone else striving to achieve peak performance, Jack allows teams to go behind closed doors to learn why U.S. fighter pilots are the best in the world. Make your team a Top Gun with Supersonic Success!

Takeaways:


• Perfect for any company striving to improve every day
• Learn the C.R.M. (Crew Resource Management) critical skills so your company can and will start performing better immediately
• Learn to implement the Top Gun Supersonic Success process of Brief–Execute–Debrief–Perfect to immediately change the mindset throughout your organization
• Create a culture of true buy-in and ownership from every member of your team allowing you to attract and retain top talent
• Elevate the performance of your team by capitalizing on successes and eliminating repeated failures
• Learn to use “The Wingman Mentality,” and improve mutual support.
• Achieve peak human performance at supersonic speeds!

Supersonic Sales

This action-packed keynote is a results-based adventure leaving sales teams inspired to continually improve both professionally and personally exactly as elite fighter pilots do. Jack’s simple and repeatable process will teach your sales team how to repeat successes and not repeat failures. By capitalizing on how to appropriately use ego to your advantage, your team will simply close more deals. And by creating a Wingman Mentality throughout your sales force, your team's sales will skyrocket!

Make your sales team agile and cohesive with this process of continual improvement. This keynote is perfect for anyone salesperson striving to achieve peak performance, Jack allows teams to go behind closed doors to learn why U.S. fighter pilots are the best in the world. Make your team a Top Gun with Supersonic Sales!

Takeaways:


• Learn how to capitalize on the appropriate time to use ego to your advantage

Learn the C.R.M. (Crew Resource Management) critical skills so your sales team will start performing better immediately
• Learn to implement the Top Gun Supersonic Success process of Brief–Execute–Debrief–Perfect to immediately change the learning curve throughout your organization

• Create a culture of true buy-in and ownership from every member of your team allowing you to attract and retain top talent

• Skyrocket sales numbers by capitalizing on successes and eliminating repeated failures

• Learn to use “The Wingman Mentality,” and improve mutual support.

• Achieve peak sales performance at supersonic speeds!

Supersonic Safety

In this high-impact safety keynote, dynamic speaker and former F-18 pilot Jack Becker shares the precise protocols behind the split-second decision-making capabilities, situational awareness, and continual improvement loop that makes fighter aviation the pinnacle of high risk task execution.
This fast-paced keynote capitalizes on Jack’s adaptation of the Crew Resource Management process. This simple step-by-step game-plan will ensure your team improves every day by repeating successes and not repeating failures.
Perfect for everyone from frontline operators to C-suite executives. This process will make your team improve today! Jack’s heart-pounding stories of combat missions draw parallels directly to your team’s everyday challenges.
His secrets of reducing human error will have your organization performing at Top Gun levels immediately. His tools and techniques of improving communication, decision making, and situational awareness have helped countless industries achieve Supersonic Safety!(This topic can be custom tailored for any industrial safety application)

Takeaways:

• Learn how Jack’s training reduced OSHA recordable mishaps at a Fortune 500 company over 60%!!
• Specifically detail how fighter pilots perform high risk tasks at supersonic speeds with the Crew Resource Management critical skills for continual improvement.
• How “The Wingman Mentality” and mutual support identify and eliminate hazards in the workplace.
• Create a culture of true buy-in and ownership from every member of your team allowing you to attract and retain top talent
• Motivate and inspire your team instilling a relentless pursuit of perfection.

Supersonic Perfection in Patient Safety

In this pivotal keynote for healthcare providers, former naval aviator turned patient safety expert Jack Becker unveils how adapting aviation-grade skills can help your team minimize errors and continually improve care quality.
From EMTs to surgeons, nurses to administrators, the C.R.M. critical skills have been helping healthcare providers “do no harm!” Medical errors are avoidable, and Jack’s process for increasing patient safety is truly groundbreaking.
This exciting keynote will help any healthcare team achieve peak levels of human performance immediately!

Takeaways:

• Perfect for any health care providers striving to minimize errors and improve every day.
• An in depth look at how the C.R.M. critical skills are drastically improving patient safety in healthcare.
• A specific “how to” detailing exactly how the Top Gun Supersonic Success process improves patient safety through all levels.
• Vital insights to how “The Wingman Mentality” and mutual support drastically and instantly improve patient safety.

Supersonic Success in Athletics

In this hard-hitting keynote, former collegiate athlete and decorated fighter pilot Jack Becker reveals the precise preparation, team bonding, and continual optimization secrets that enable fighter squadrons to perform with championship execution under extreme pressure.
From collegiate athletic programs to professional sports teams, Jack’s Supersonic Game Day keynote redefines how coaches and athletes achieve Top Gun success. Having played collegiate football and ice hockey at the Naval Academy, Jack knows what it takes to win at high levels. Now, he uses jaw-dropping stories of combat challenges and successes to draw a direct parallel to game day dominance.
Your team will be motivated and inspired to succeed every day from off-season preparation though game day execution. If you want to win, you need Supersonic Success!

Takeaways:

• Perfect for any college or professional athletic team looking to guarantee victory.
• An inside look at how US fighter pilots prepare and execute missions that guarantee victory in air combat, our “game day.”.
• How championship level sports teams are benefiting from the Top Gun Supersonic Success process for continual improvement.
• How fighter pilots achieve peak Game Day Performance every mission

Supersonic Global Situational Awareness (deep dive workshop customized to your length of time)

In this workshop, combat-decorated fighter pilot Jack Becker equips your team with the precise protocols that enable elite military aviators to optimize performance and execute under pressure while continually accelerating improvement.
The key to reducing human error is to increase situational awareness. This workshop dives even further into the intricacies of the Crew Resource Management critical skills and the Top Gun Supersonic Success process by helping teams increase their situational awareness to astonishing levels. If your team is ready to take human performance to the next level, this workshop will be a home run! *This workshop is great to do as an addition to one of Jack’s keynotes.

Takeaways:

• Perfect for any organization looking to further their peak performance by elevating Situational Awareness. Typically, Jack’s repeat customers.
• A detailed look on how situational awareness can help nearly everyone in the American workplace.
• Learn the secrets to increase your situational awareness and achieve peak human performance just like fighter pilots and FBI/CIA agents do.

Testimonials

Outstanding! Jack Becker has truly changed our culture for the better. Zero mishaps for the first two quarters following the training!! Best presentation I’ve seen in my career by far!!!
– Jim Foreman, III, North American Director, General Electric
Jack was very well received by our employees. The fact that we had a fighter pilot here to talk about safety and human performance, so soon after Top Gun Maverick came out, was great timing. I had not seen Jack’s presentation prior to him being here, but the culture shift we are seeking in human performance, which in turn has a tremendous influence on safety and production efficiencies, were perfectly aligned with Jack’s message. I liken him to one of my kid’s cool friends. I can tell the kids something and it goes in one ear and out the other, but the same exact message seems to resonant differently if it comes from the cool friend. As leaders, we have developed programs and processes and it is received so-so by our workers. But the same message coming from Jack seems to pack more of a punch, and I look forward to hearing how he has impacted our site as we journey on with HU. Please use me as a reference if you have any clients who like to hear a first-hand experience regarding Jack.
– Staci White, Safety and Emergency Response Manager, Urenco
Jack Becker is one of the best, most knowledgeable, and inspirational storytellers I've heard speak. He makes you feel as if you are part of his story, and I was able to envision myself in his shoes feeling all the feels. Myself and those around me were completely captivated from the time Jack walked on stage to when he received a standing ovation.
– Becky G, President Elect of EO Chicago, CEO of Candor Threads

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