Jim murphy

Renowned Speaker & Best Selling Author of 7 Books

Forbes Magazine Small Giant

Sought After Advisor


What do Michael Dell (Dell), Brian Cornell (Target), Pat Gelsiger (Intel), Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), and many other Fortune 500 CEO’s as well as Super Bowl Winning Coach Tom Coughlin have in common? They have worked with James D. Murphy to help them develop winning teams.

Jim has dedicated his life to understanding and enhancing team and organizational execution. With a diverse background as a Division 1 College Athlete, an Air Force Fighter Pilot, Founder & CEO, Board Member, and Managing Partner at a private equity firm, Jim brings a wealth of relevant real-world experiences to the table.

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Jim’s captivating stories from the cockpit, intertwined with tried-and-tested business frameworks, will inspire your audience to execute strategies that will transform your business today.

“Murph” has appeared on Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 500/5000 list 9 times and was featured as a Forbes Small Giant. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, Meetings & Conventions Magazine and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, CNBC and Bloomberg News. He was also named as one of Atlanta’s top 50 entrepreneurs by Catalyst Magazine.

  • Most leaders focus on the daily tasks and only spin their wheels on what is urgent.

    Sought after global business consultant and former fighter pilot Jim “Murph” Murphy will teach audiences how only a clearly defined future can get you where you ultimately want to go.

    Drawing from his remarkable journey, from a Kentucky farm boy to the cockpit of high-performance aircrafts, flying missions worldwide in just sixteen months, Murph emphasizes how the power of envisioning a clear future changes everything. Murph illustrates the path to painting a clear, detailed, goal focused mission that will transform your team and company to greater level of trust and success.  His insights and captivating stories from the cockpit are interwoven with proven business frameworks, offering audiences inspiration and actionable strategies to excel in today's dynamic business landscape. A clearly defined mission combined with resolute focus are central themes in Murph's message transforming mere discussions into transformative components of your team's future strategies.

  • Addressing Complexity. Becoming Agile. Leading through Change. Innovation. Operational Excellence. Developing Leaders. Retaining Top Talent.

    Do these sound like a myriad of challenges, many of which you and your organization today face? Do your strategies to address and excel in these areas seem disconnected and paralyze your people? Would you believe a firm has spent the last two decades evangelizing and demonstrating that in fact they are all connected? And better still, there is a simple, holistic set of tools and techniques you can apply to address them all - simultaneously?

    Aligned with the release of his 5th book Courage To Execute, Jim not only shares how leaders can address these challenges and seize these opportunities, he details the simple, scalable process that elite military teams and key clients leverage to survive, thrive and dominate where competitors fall short.

    Leveraging video, corporate and military analogies and Lessons Learned from his work advising Executives at 85% of the Fortune 50 and dozens more, this keynote will inform and empower leaders to scope the environment, drown out the noise, align strategy to execution and empower leaders to demonstrate a Bias to Action – the secret to winning in the today’s business environment.

  • Great leaders don’t make decisions based on the past, they compel their teams forward by bringing alignment towards the same mission. But how do the best leaders motivate their teams to complete the same mission? They create ultimate buy in by communicating a clear mission and giving everyone a seat at the table.

    Employees want to be heard across all levels and know they are part of the vision, mission and intent of the company they work for. As we’ve seen again and again over the past few years, employers are struggling to keep their talent which detracts dramatically from profits and the overall success of the organization. Teams need a clear, simple and compelling mission. A mission where everyone understands the unique, vital role they play, feel their input matters and ultimate end game they are collectively working towards.

    Jim Murphy, founder and Chairman of the immensely successful Afterburner Inc. management consulting and leadership training firm has been part of the team that has transformed the landscape 85% of the U.S. Fortune 50 and hundreds of Global 1000 corporations in 24 countries. Jim’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Financial Times, Newsweek, and Meetings and Conventions Magazine; and on national media networks like CNN, Fox News, CNBC and Bloomberg News.

    In addition to being a bestselling author of seven books, Murphy is also Co-Founder and former Chairman of Advanced Care Partners, a rapidly growing home healthcare company that has been serving our nations medically fragile children since 2010. Advanced Care Partners has made Inc. Magazines list of fastest growing companies every year since 2016 (6x)Item description

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Murph went from farm boy to Air Force Fighter Pilot in just 16 short months. After training, he recognized the frameworks enabling his success in the F-15 cockpit were also the same ones the entire Air Force used as an enterprise to succeed in combat. This realization inspired Murph to conceptualize the ‘Flawless Execution’ methodology and write the bestselling book Flawless Execution. His agile approach became the foundation of Afterburner, a globally successful consulting company he founded and led as CEO. 

Under his 25-year leadership, Afterburner evolved from offering keynote speeches to becoming a premier consultancy for global corporations, working with 85% of the U.S. Fortune 50 and numerous Global 1000 entities. He now heads up Afterburner Capital, a cutting-edge Private Equity firm based in Miami FL.

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