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Military Mentorship
Mastermind

Five veteran fighter pilots. A century of combined military leadership experience. Two national bestsellers. One mission: to share what combat taught them about resilience, mentorship, and leading people through the moments that define them.

8

Combat-Proven Military Aviators

100+

Years Combined Military
Leadership Experience

2

National Bestsellers
Published

Purposeful Peers.
Proven Results.

Our personal and professional growth is our responsibility. It is our task to surround ourselves with those who empower and challenge us to enable us to achieve our true potential.

"Our military is known for the ability to cultivate leaders who make life and death decisions to shape the future of our nation with limited information on accelerated timelines. Mentorship is their key secret."

Mentorship is how combat-proven military leaders live and grow, with a safety net of vertical and horizontal mentorship that allows each evolving leader to stand on the shoulders of giants: encompassed by those who have endured the challenge before, embraced by peers enduring similar challenges at the same time, and empowering the next generation to follow in their footsteps.

When properly transitioned to corporate America, this mindset drives efficient and effective organizations to realize accelerated success, profits, and potential.

Encompassed by Experience

Vertical mentorship from those who have walked the path before you, carrying forward the hard-won lessons of every battle and setback they endured.

Embraced by Peers

Horizontal mentorship from those navigating the same terrain at the same moment: the accountability, camaraderie, and honest counsel of equals who are equally invested in your growth.

Empowering the Next Generation

The obligation to pour what you have learned back into the leaders coming behind you, multiplying the impact of every lesson far beyond your own career.

The Commitment

We are the product of the experiences, decisions, actions, reactions, and inactions of yesterday. Our future will be the product of today's thoughts, goals, focus, and desires. Let's grow together to empower a better tomorrow.

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Combat-Proven Leadership
in Print

Two national bestsellers. All profits from the series support veterans charities.

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National Bestseller

Aiming Higher

A Journey Through Military Aviation Leadership

Combat-proven senior military leaders share insight into their military aviation leadership journey as they continue to challenge one another and empower both themselves and others to achieve their true potential.

A silver-medal winner, Aiming Higher takes readers inside the cockpit of military leadership to reveal the principles that drive precision, accountability, and excellence under the most demanding conditions on earth.

Our mission is to get this into the hands of every leader who needs it — download your free copy below.

Building Resilience book cover
National Bestseller

Building Resilience

How to Move Past Fear into Real Toughness as a Team

Five veteran fighter pilots share a roadmap through uncertainty and disruption, and how they lived it, taught it, and equipped a new generation of warriors to do the same. They reveal how frontline combat teams found a way to bounce back from loss, reform, and return to battle to win.

Opening with an examination of the warrior mindset, the book builds through mental resilience, trauma, and team recovery, moving readers from victim to victor.

Our mission is to get this into the hands of every leader who needs it — download your free copy below.

Resilience Is Not Fixed.
It Is Elastic.

Resilience is not set at birth. It is a taught and learned behavior, one that can be continuously improved. As leaders, in our lives and in our organizations, we control the quality of that response. Our decisions and actions improve the outcomes in our lives, and these positive decisions impact our families and our organizations.

It is not a matter of whether you have resilience or not; it is a matter of how strong your resilience is. The good news: it can be trained like any other muscle.

Resilience is not merely facing the tomorrow you almost lost after surviving a trauma. That is pure survival. Resilience is being better tomorrow than you are today, and utilizing the experience of trauma as an empowering force from which to grow and thrive. It is learning through knowing yourself and being honest about your fears, shortcomings, and strengths.

Building Resilience Workbook

Download the companion workbook to guide your personal and team growth as you read the book. Free, actionable, and field-tested.

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Not an Innate Gift

Resilience is not something you either have or don't. It is a behavior that is learned, practiced, and improved deliberately over time.

Not Pure Survival

Simply making it through a trauma is survival. Resilience is emerging from that trauma stronger, wiser, and more capable than you were before it.

Not Fixed at Birth

Your resilience today is not your ceiling. Every decision, every honest self-assessment, every challenge embraced expands what is possible for you tomorrow.

Being Better Tomorrow

Resilience is the daily commitment to be better tomorrow than you are today, utilizing every experience, including the hardest ones, as fuel for growth and positive change.

To Find Hope in a Better Tomorrow

Where do we go to find hope in a better tomorrow, regardless of what today had in store for us? Where do we find a strategy, a roadmap for persevering even as everything continues to fall apart?

Where do we go to find inspiration, to pick ourselves up after a loss, to find a way forward even as our strength begins to wane?

Join five veteran fighter pilots as they discuss a roadmap through uncertainty and disruption, and how they were then able to live it and teach it, equipping a new generation of warriors to do the same. They share how frontline combat teams found a way to bounce back from loss, reform, then learn and return to battle to win.

We were the product of yesterday.

We are the architects of tomorrow.

Let's grow together to empower a better future.

Meet the Influencers

Military Mentorship Mastermind Influencers bring a combined century of military leadership experience, combat experience in the air and on the ground, two national bestsellers, worldwide speaking engagements.

"Cujo"
Robert Teschner
USAF Lt. Col. (Ret.)
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"KC"
Kim Campbell
USAF Col. (Ret.)
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"PSYCH"
Luke Layman
USAF (Ret.)
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"Shark"
Robert Garland
USAF (Ret.)
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"Stickit"
Brian Emme
USAF (Ret.)
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Jason O. Harris
USAF Lt. Col. (Ret.)
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"FuZZ"
Daniel Walker
Influencer

All Profits Support Veterans

All profits from the sale of the Military Mentorship Mastermind book series are donated to the following organizations supporting veterans and military families.

Accelerate Your
Team's Potential

Military Mentorship Mastermind Influencers are available to work with your organization in formats that meet you where you are. Every engagement is customized to your team's culture, challenges, and desired outcomes.

Whether you bring a single Influencer or the full team, you are getting combat-proven leadership insight distilled into practical tools your people can apply the next day.

Request an Engagement
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Virtual Keynote

A high-impact virtual presentation by one or more Influencers, tailored to your audience and delivered with the intensity that only combat-proven speakers bring.

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Onsite Keynote

The full in-person experience: a keynote that commands the room and equips your team with a framework they will reference long after the event ends.

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Executive Coaching

One-on-one or small-group coaching with an Influencer, drawing from decades of leadership in the world's most demanding environment.

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Leadership Workshop

An immersive half-day or full-day workshop built around your specific leadership challenges, incorporating team exercises drawn from military training methodology.

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Join the Next Cohort

Interested in becoming an Influencer? Open conversations are available for leaders who want to join the next cohort and carry this mission forward.

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to your organization?

One Influencer or the full team: every engagement is customized, combat-proven, and built to move your people.

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