Flashover Seminars

Biography

The Flashover experience is a cutting edge journey into the "Extreme Teamwork" and High Performance Leadership necessary for success in today's fast-paced and time critical business environment -- led by the professionals who epitomize the term "performance under pressure", America's firefighters.

Their impactful events take you deep into a world in which life and death decisions are made every day and a deep connection to one's teammates is essential for survival -- and allows you to experience first-hand the teambuilding strategies and "Incident Command" skills you'll need to handle all of your business fires with confidence!

Titles

INCIDENT COMMAND KEYNOTE
Critical Deadlines. Circumstances beyond your control. Changes in market conditions. Gotta - act - now opportunities. These are everyday occurrences in the business world (and in life!), and whether we like it or not, all of us spend at least a portion of our work week "fighting fires". In the incident command keynote, our flashover team of experienced firefighters will teach you how to effectively fight your every day fires using the same critical approach we apply to fighting actual structure fires. "Extreme Teamwork" is also emphasized as a critical factor for success.

Real world business examples, entertaining stories, and dramatic firefighting footage serve to illustrate this easily applied and universal incident command model, and attendees will leave armed with the tools they need to become more effective managers, more confident leaders, and better teambuilders in today's high performance, fast-paced business environment.

EXTREME TEAMWORK
The Extreme Teams keynote was conceived from and article in Fast Company Magazine in which Robyn Benincasa's Adventure Racing team was one of the high level organizations profiled as a model for extreme team performance in highly time critical and intense business environments. The parallels drawn and the lessons therein are the basis for the extreme teams keynote in which Robyn utilizes gripping adventure footage and humorous stories from her team's successes in both adventure racing and firefighting to illustrate the 8 essential factors for success in high performance teams.

Attendees will experience an emotional gamut from fear to awe to laughter during this 1 - 1 1/2 hour presentation and will leave with the inspiration and wisdom to build their own successful extreme teams.