Kevin Sweeney

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Conversations With the Colonel
Conversations With the Colonel puts you and your team front and center, up close and personal with Lt. Colonel Kevin Sweeney, the author of the book Conversations with the Colonel: Lessons of Life, Leadership, and Wisdom. The Colonel will discuss with you an authentic, ethical and realistic view of the attributes needed for successful performance under pressure. The Colonel shares his extraordinary experiences across a wide and varied spectrum that few if anyone can match.

Pressure Cooker Confidence   
How to Deliver Peak Performance when the Heat is On
Pressure Cooker Confidence enables you to say I can, I will, I expect, and I did it when the pressure is on. The Colonel’s flagship presentation built around his dramatic life or death flight. Kevin will position you mentally in the cockpit with him to personally live through his incredible experience and challenge of having the two engines on his left wing come completely off his airplane while on a Desert Storm combat mission. As he introduces the five principles of Performance Under Pressure you will discover why the hard work you do before hand matters more than the work you do when the pressure is on.

Leadership in Challenging Times
True and effective leadership is not based upon rank or position. True and effective leadership is a critical and earned gift from the people you lead.
In this presentation Lt. Colonel Kevin Sweeney will show you how to:

• Identify personal attributes of great leaders
• Become the teammate that makes you a great leader
• Discover integrity characteristics that great leaders demonstrate
• Differentiate between good and great leaders –

Whether the leader is a C-level Executive or a 4-star-General Leadership in Challenging Times is a thought provoking and insightful presentation from someone personally experienced in both military and corporate leadership traits.

Mission Accomplishment
An Interactive Breakout Session
In addition to his renowned keynotes, Kevin can moderate an interactive breakout session for your event in which the group explores the reasons why aircrews are so effective in their mission execution and mission performance no matter what happens. Aircrews seem to excel at their highest level when they are under pressure, delivering a very high mission success rate. 

Kevin will answer the questions as to why aircrews are so effective and known for performing under pressure and why they respond to emergencies so well. The session will examine this performance model and understand how it can easily be applied to achieve noted professional and personal success that we all want.

Concrete, Valuable ROI
Kevin’s programs are energizing, inspiring sessions that deliver concrete value that continues long after the program has ended.
Kevin’s programs enable each team member to develop a passionate belief in their mind that they truly believe

• I can,
• I will,
• I expect, and
• I did it!!

Kevin’s presentations are motivational and inspirational. But they are much more.

Kevin enables individuals to reach peak performance — not only in the daily routine, but in all pressure cooker environments. He helps leaders and their teams to:

• Attain your Revenue and Profits goals and objectives earlier than you thought possible
• Be Positioned to meet and overcome all challenges – pinnacle performance under pressure
• Have the drive and determination to Compete at the highest level
• Develop Personal Enthusiasm that drives you to excel time and time again under pressure
• Have an unstoppable Laser Beam Focus in both your personal and professional life
• Learn to deliver levels of Customer Service none of your competitors can compete with

How Do You Develop Performance Under Pressure?
Developing Performance Under Pressure involves five key areas:

• Preparation
• Passion
• Focus
• Teamwork
• Confidence

Within these five key areas, are six fundamental principles:

1. Unshakable Dedication: Sets you up to obtain your goals and objectives.
2. Adversity Preparation: Makes the routine easy and the impossible doable.
3. Targeted Enthusiasm : Sustains you through hurdles and complications.
4. Endorphin Payoffs: Create the personal thrill you seek.
5. Connected Intensity: Leads you to understand your clients’ and customers’ wants and needs.
6. Ignoring the Immaterial: Removes the mental clutter and allows you to focus on the critical factors for success.

Extreme Pressure into Calm Confidence
Kevin’s programs will provide strategies how to turn extreme pressure into calm confidence.