Christian “Boo” Boucousis

Christian “Boo” Boucousis Speaking Topics

• The Fighter Pilot Mindset

  Own everything. Be curious. Make an impact. Lead.

  The Fighter Pilot Mindset is built on three essential elements: Impact, Iteration, and Beliefs. This mindset empowers individuals and organizations to achieve excellence by aligning their actions with their goals through a structured, reflective approach.

  • Make an Impact – Set Your Intention
  • Understand Beliefs Drive Behavior
  • Embrace Iterative Thinking

  You’ll take away:

  • Develop Clear, Impact-Driven Intentions: Participants will learn to set clear and committed intentions, enhancing their ability to focus on impactful actions that align with their overarching goals.

  • Identify and Align Beliefs to Drive Positive Behavior: Attendees will gain insight into how beliefs influence behaviors and decisions, learning to align their beliefs with desired outcomes to build sustainable habits for success.

  • Apply the ORCA Framework for Reflective, Iterative Growth: Learners will understand and practice the ORCA process—Objective, Results, Cause, Action—as a structured method to refine actions, improve outcomes, and cultivate continuous growth.

  • Cultivate an Iterative, Reflective Mindset for Ongoing Excellence: Participants will embrace a mindset of continuous improvement, applying iterative thinking to adapt and enhance their decisions, behaviors, and beliefs for consistent, impactful results.

• Deep Performance

  Be the best of the best

  High performance has its place in an organization and deep down, we all need and want to perform and to be part of a high-performing, winning team. However, research highlights the stark reality, that not everyone can be, or wants to be, a high performer. However we CAN all be DEEP performers!

  This topic explores the power of deep performance. You’ll gain insights into the simple lessons and habits of the best of the best, from business leaders, the GOAT’s (that’s Greatest of All Time for the uninitiated!) and the uncompromising world of fighter pilots, and how to apply them in your business.

  You’ll take away:

  • The trust-based “nameless and rankless” methods used by fighter pilots globally to deliver exceptional outcomes and a win rate of 98%.

  • The relationship between Purpose, Time and Trust. Three powerful elements that can’t be bought and must be created, to drive organizational-wide velocity and sustained high performance.

  • How to create an agile and adaptive mindset, without the chaos and confusion.

  • How to create more time by investing in the right things and saying NO purposefully.

  For leaders, sales and marketing teams, operational teams and general team performance

• Be Exceptional

  How to Stand Out From the Crowd

  In a world where every brand, product and service feels the same, this session will show you the methods to stand out by becoming an exceptional organisation. The formula for driving success?

  Developing the courage to dive deep into your organization’s mis-steps and failures, to extract incredible lessons and to act on them quickly to rapidly improve your existing products and services, drive innovation and create exceptional people. Transition from a FAILURE mindset, to an experimental mindset and strike the balance between delivering your business of today with your business of the future.

  You’ll take away:

  • How to futureproof your business with the ultimate secret weapon, debriefing

  • The optimism bias and how we unintentionally set ourselves up to fail

  • The transformative “Three R's” three step debriefing process used by fighter pilots to drive a 98% success rate

  • The art of debriefing with customers to discover their purpose, their needs, solve their problems and transition from value to invaluable

  • The performance high – the neuroscience hack that turns failure into success and gives you a free energy boost

  For leaders, sales and marketing teams, resilience, high performing trams and change

• Indispensable

  Be the organization (or person!) you can’t live without

  What’s the point of every action, meeting, or product in your organization, or to put it another way, the purpose? This keynote explores why creating purpose, understanding purpose at different levels of your business, and understanding our customers purpose is the key to becoming indispensable.

  Having a Vision, Mission and goals is one thing, helping everyone in the organization connect to them is another.We’ll dive deep on connecting daily purposeful actions to your organisations “Big Purpose” to help improve engagement, productivity and wellbeing across all levels of your business.

  You'll take away:

  • The rule of three. The simple patterns of communication that will help you stay forefront of mind

  • How to create long term “Big” purpose with a capital P to align the hearts and minds of your organization and drive purposeful activity each day

  • How to create small wins by asking “what’s the point” before we launch into time consuming action

  • Is your yes, a “Hell yes!”? How to say NO to unnecessary ”stuff” and YES to the ideas that drive innovation in your business.

  • NEVER GIVE UP – the key role resilience plays in leadership and within a team to get the job done

  For leaders,, strategic thinking, sales and marketing, resilience, motivation and inspiration

• From Chaos to Clarity

  In a chaotic world, be the oasis of calm

  We all need clarity, especially in today’s chaotic disconnected world. In the military they call it VUCA; Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous.

  It’s during these periods exceptional companies find opportunity, rally their people and shift into the new norm, at speed. We’ll explore the importance of creating an execution rhythm, the concept of situationally aware thinking and how to create time to focus and collaborate.

  You’ll take away:

  • How to be adaptable by creating “situational awareness” each day – the key to staying one step ahead

  • The distraction hack, how to claw back the 2.5 days of lost productivity every week we experience due to distraction

  • How to talk less and say more using the “Pose, pause, pounce” influence technique Boo used to build a $200m global business and a $42 million hotel, on time and under budget

  • The eight steps to rewire your brain and create “total awareness”, the ninja like skill of leading your team through disruption

  • How to “sell” situational awareness to your customers and make yourself indispensable

  For leaders, teams, strategic planning, offsites, product launch, remote teams