George Dom
Former Blue Angel Flight Leader, Naval Officer and TopGun Instructor
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- Served as commanding officer and flight leader of the US Navy’s prestigious Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron.
- Served as commander of the air wing on the USS John F. Kennedy and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, overseeing 2,500 personnel and 70 tactical aircraft.
- Global thought leader on building strong leaders and teams through earning and developing trust.
- Presentations incorporate thrilling, up-close video footage and visuals of the Blue Angels in action.
- Offers audiences exclusive content focused on the 5C’s of High-Trust: Character, Commitment, Competence, Connection, and Communication.
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George Dom is a former naval officer and aviator with a career that included key leadership positions in high performance organizations, including four aircraft carrier fighter squadrons and commander of the air wing of the USS John F. Kennedy. He also was an instructor/pilot at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Topgun) and commanding officer/flight leader of the Blue Angels. After leaving active duty, Dom became a business aviation consultant to Fortune 500 corporations, private companies and high net-worth Individuals.
Flying fighter jets in training and combat in the unforgiving environment of an aircraft carrier at sea – as well as high-speed and very low altitude formation acrobatics – was a unique thrill and privilege for George Dom. But what gave him the greatest lasting satisfaction was helping to build high performance leaders and teams. For an organization like the Navy where there is no lateral entry, leadership development was not just the key to success, but crucial to survival.
Achieving individual and collective high performance requires High-Trust Leadership and Focused Engagement. This is true in sports, the military, medical teams, and in the business world. Through daily, deliberate, intentional effort, a culture of high-trust and fully engaged wingmen can be developed at all levels. A high-trust team is a force-multiplier achieving results exponentially greater than the sum of the individuals.
Dom founded NFS Leadership Consulting to help leaders improve their individual and organizational success through High-Trust Leadership and Focused Engagement. As a former coach with the Human Performance Institute, George can share the science behind developing what Dr. Jim Loehr refers to as Full Engagement: the acquired ability to intentionally invest your full and best energy right here, right now.
In the knowledge-based economy, high performance is all about relationships, strong and enduring relationships with all stakeholders, and the fundamental ingredient for every successful relationship is trust.
For naval aviators, flying off aircraft carriers a thousand miles from land (often in the middle of the night) trust is essential not just success, but survival. There can be no compromise in that extreme laboratory of high performance. If you weren’t trusted, you’d fail or be fired; if you can’t trust others, you’ll either fail or look for another line of work.
Trust is the cornerstone to be an effective leader; it’s the glue that keeps the team firing on all cylinders. Within a culture of trust, there is an upward spiral of achievement based on creativity, determination, accountability, excellence, passion, camaraderie, humor, candor, and resilience. Allowing a culture of mistrust (due to fear, incompetence, and/or integrity gaps) will result in the opposite.
How attendees will benefit:
•Understand why a culture of high-trust is critical to achieving individual and organizational high performance
•Discover the 5C’s of trustworthiness: Character, Commitment, Competence, Connection, and Communication
•Develop a high-trust action plan with specific, immediate actions
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