Paul Littlejohn

Paul Littlejohn

I buildhigh-performingpeople and teams.

Former RAF fighter pilot, Divisional Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer.

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Wingman Executive · DubaiMeet your wingman

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Let’s work together.

For you, your team and your organisation.

Speaking

Stories from fighter flying and business leadership, with ideas your audience can take back to work. Talks on judgement, leadership and performance.

Workshops

Practical sessions on leadership, judgement and teamwork. We work through the challenges your people face and practise ways to handle them.

Executive coaching

Work directly with me on how you lead and the decisions you face. Develop your judgement and confidence through the challenges you’re dealing with now.

Advisory & transformation

Work with me on the direction of your business, how it operates and the changes you need to make. I advise leaders and lead transformation.

Staying Ahead of the Jet — A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Better Decisions, by Paul Littlejohn

Forthcoming book

Staying Ahead
of the Jet.

Good judgement changes what you can do next.

Fighter flying taught me to stay ahead of a situation, make decisions with an incomplete picture and keep enough room to act. This book brings that judgement into the decisions we face in work and life.

Direction

Where are
we going?

Movement

What’s our
next step?

Risk

Can we survive
being wrong?

The Mission artwork: an F/A-18 on an aircraft carrier at sunset

Private executive experience · Dubai

Launch an F/A-18.
From a carrier.

Discover what your team is capable of.

For one day, your leadership team becomes a fighter squadron. Plan a mission, fly it together in full-motion F/A-18 simulators and debrief what happened with me.

You’ll see how your team communicates, makes decisions and supports one another, with lessons to take back to work.

One private team of 4–6 · No flying experience needed
Brief together. Fly together. Learn together.
Paul Littlejohn in flying kit beside an F/A-18

About Paul

Fighter pilot.
Business leader.
Your wingman.

Paul Littlejohn has flown fast jets, trained fighter pilots and led major businesses.

A former RAF fighter pilot and US Marine Corps instructor, Paul went on to become a Divisional Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He knows what it takes to build teams and lead organisations where decisions have real consequences.

Paul’s strength is making that experience relevant to the people in front of him. He helps leaders see their own challenges more clearly and understand what they can do next.

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Every leader
needs a wingman.

Tell me what you’d like to achieve.

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Speaking

Ideas your audience
can put to work.

Lessons from fighter flying and business leadership.

I use stories from flying and business to explore how we make decisions and lead people. Each talk gives your audience a clear idea to take back to their own work.

Topics include

  • Exercising judgement when the picture is incomplete.
  • What leaders make possible for the people around them.
  • The standards and habits behind high performance.
Discuss a speaking engagement

Workshops

Put the thinking
to work.

Work on the leadership and teamwork behind your business performance.

We plan the workshop around your team and the challenges you want to address. People take part in exercises, compare experiences and practise applying what they’ve learned.

I help your team understand how it works and agree what to do differently.

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Executive coaching

Work on how
you lead.

One-to-one work on the decisions and challenges in front of you.

We work on the way you lead and the performance you want to build. You bring the situations you’re facing; I bring an experienced outside view and the judgement to help you work through them.

We agree what you want to work on and what progress should look like.

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Advisory & transformation

Work directly
with me.

Senior advice and leadership for your business.

I work directly with leaders on the direction of the business, the way it operates and the changes needed to perform at a higher level. That can include shaping a strategy, designing how the organisation works or taking responsibility for leading a transformation.

We agree what the business needs to achieve, the work required and where I will take responsibility.

Discuss your organisation

Forthcoming · Paul Littlejohn

Staying Ahead
of the Jet.

You don’t need to know everything. You need to know what matters.

Staying ahead means retaining the ability to act deliberately, take opportunities and respond as the world changes. The book explores the judgement behind that through lessons from flying and business.

Four questions help make that thinking practical:

What do we actually know?

What are we trying to achieve?

What do we need to decide now?

Can we survive if it goes wrong?

They are habits to return to as your situation develops, whether you’re leading a business, working with a team or deciding your own next move.

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Participants flying full-motion F/A-18 simulators at Fightertown Dubai

The Mission · Fightertown Dubai

One team.
A shared mission.

A private executive experience for a leadership team of four to six.

Your team plans and flies a mission together in full-motion, full-VR F/A-18 simulators. I lead the brief and debrief, connecting what happened to how you communicate, exercise judgement and work together.

  1. Brief. Understand the task and agree what good looks like.
  2. Fly. Share what you see, make decisions and support the team.
  3. Debrief. Work through what happened and what you can take back to work.

No flying experience is needed.

Discuss a Mission day