Christian 'Boo' Boucousis
Fighter pilot Christian 'Boo' Boucousis is a human behaviour and deep performance specialist and inspirational keynote speaker who explores a world beyond high performing teams and high-performance leaders.
Google “Christian Boo Boucousis” and you’ll discover a world-class speaker with hundreds of reviews attesting to his life-changing insights, ranking him 4.9/5.0 (as Boo says, no one’s perfect!), one of the world’s most impactful and results-oriented speakers.
Boo walks the talk, and organisations such as McDonalds, Zurich, Pfizer, Microsoft, Specsavers and Woolworths are a few of the global leaders who’ve experienced immediate and dramatic ongoing performance leaps thanks to his secrets to creating a “Deep Performance Mindset”.
His Deep Performance Mindset replaces the outdated, expensive, resource-intensive and unsustainable “high performance” mindset that consistently fails to deliver its lofty expectations in business.
Why is Boo the authority on inclusive and sustainable performance? It’s in his DNA. Fulfilling his boyhood dream of becoming a fighter pilot at the age of 21, he transitioned into business after the diagnosis of a crippling auto-immune disease 10 years later.
He’s reinvented himself numerous times by transforming the ways of thinking and working he acquired as a fighter pilot to build a humanitarian business turning over in excess of $200 million, followed by developing a record-setting $42 million high-rise hotel, transformed an iconic published business into a digital publishing powerhouse and now works with iconic brands and people to implement the methods that drive habitual success.
Authoritative and entertaining, Boo will equip you, your leaders, and your teams with a simple four-step process, which paves a new way of thinking and working together, empowering you to surpass expectations consistently.
His unique performance mindset is fuelled by a deep curiosity around what makes us tick as human beings, the one thing we all have in common irrespective of gender, race, colour or creed. Boo connects us with our human performance strengths and limitations and navigates you towards the skills needed to evolve, at a deeply personal level. Forever.
The translation from 'cockpit' to 'meeting room' made it a highly engaging way to learn strategies for getting our strategy executed
Head of Communication and Marketing – Zurich
What a phenomenal experience. I'm looking forward to taking this into my everyday. If I can apply even a little bit every day I'll be in front!
Senior Medical Manager – Neuroscience Roche
Best corporate training program I've ever experienced
CEO Transurban
Boo was a highlight! His session was both high impact and engaging with actionable take-aways for teams and individuals. The incorporation of videos and AV production throughout his keynote made his performance captivating from start to end. We toured Boo across 4 states and he was a hit with all demographics.
Director Momentum Connect Events
WOW! Boo exceeded our expectations with his background, clear and disciplined instruction, and inspiring delivery. Our half-day session felt like seconds and we wanted more. The feedback informed us that this was our best development event ever. Boo's lead up and preparation was extremely professional. He made an extreme effort to tailor the session by learning our product and the nuances of our team dynamics - and we became instant friends!
Senior Enterprise Account Manager, SimilarWeb
My speaking topics...
Deep Performance
Be the best of the best
For leaders, sales and marketing teams, operational teams and general team performance
High performance has its place in an organisation 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 GOATs (that's Greatest of All Time for the uninitiated!) and the uncompromising world of fighter pilots, and how to apply them in your business.
In this session you will learn:
- 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 organisational-wide velocity and sustained high performance.
- How to create an agile and adaptive mindset, without chaos and confusion.
- How to create more time by investing in the right things and saying no purposefully.
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The GID Mindset - Get It Done
The secret to unlocking 400% more of everything
For sales. Productivity, engagement, resilience, agile ways of working and change management
The world around you is accelerating. We look at emerging research on how organisations can take advantage of disruption to not only keep pace with change, but to accelerate ahead of it. We've all heard the phrase "We need to buy time"? Well unfortunately you can't! In an accelerating world, mastering the time you have is fundamental to success.
If we can't buy more time, how do we create it? The GID mindset is a way of getting your people to think fast and work in unprecedented synchronicity - it's the future for humans to work in the era of digitalization and automation. It's about focus, getting "it" done rather than "things" or "stuff "done.
In this session you will learn:
- The value of sustained high performance (or "deep" performance) for you, your team and your customers
- A simple four-step structure that helps you "think quick" and create velocity to gain the competitive edge
- Keep it simple. How to create more time in your day through greater alignment in thought, action and impact
- The "GID" mantra and why focusing on big picture outcomes rather than tasks is the key to success
- Close the "Say-Do" gap. How to build trust by "doing" what we say we're going to do (and do the right things in the first place!)
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Be Exceptional
How to stand out from the crowd
For leaders, sales and marketing teams, resilience, high performing teams and change
In a world where every brand, product and service feel the same, this session will show you the methods to stand out by becoming an exceptional organisation, and explore the formula for driving success.
In this session you will learn:
- How to future-proof 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
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Indispensable
Be the organization (or person!) you can't live without
For leaders, strategic thinking, sales and marketing, resilience, motivation and inspiration
What's the point of every action, meeting, or product in your organisation, 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 organisation connect to them is another.
We'll take a dive deep into connecting daily purposeful actions to your organisations "Big Purpose" to help improve engagement, productivity and wellbeing across all levels of your business.
In this session you will learn:
- 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 organisation 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
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From Chaos To Clarity
In a chaotic world, be the oasis of calm
For leaders, teams, strategic planning, offsites, product launch, remote teams
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.
In this session you will learn:
- 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
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On Time On Target
At Mach 1.5, encased in 20 tonnes of metal, fighter pilots don't have much time to think. They prepare on the ground to take on anything in the air, then get their job done.
Former fighter pilots Jim 'Murph' Murphy and Christian 'Boo' Boucousis have built on the techniques the air force has honed for 60 years. You'll make clearer decisions, and put them to action with more speed, more precision, more safety, and more success.
Flex's proven plan-brief-execute-debrief cycle is the original and most widely tested 'agile' approach, getting you better and better with each mission. It cuts through noise and complexity, engages people, and helps build an honest and open working culture. Flex also sets your purpose and destination, so that when your team gives their all, they'll deliver for your organisation.
The New York Giants used Flex to finally crack the Super Bowl. PepsiCo used Flex to take on Coke. You'll see how some remarkable businesses have relied on Flex, and some remarkable pilots have taken Flex to their businesses. You'll also feel what it's like to be in the seat of a Hornet, and why Flex is so appreciated by the pilots it keeps alive.