Decision-making under pressure.
A speaker pack for event organisers and booking partners. Three formats, one subject. Audiences leave able to make the call faster, with clearer reasons, and less second-guessing afterwards.
01Overview
Who it's for. Boardrooms, executive teams, and conferences where the audience has to make calls that have to land. Senior leaders carrying decisions they haven't been able to make. Rooms where the cost of waiting is real.
Why Paul. 16 years flying fast jets in the Royal Air Force. Combat sorties over Iraq. A US Marine Corps exchange tour flying the F/A-18 as an instructor and department head. 12 years running operations at scale across the Gulf: dnata, Meeting Point International and Tourism 365. Plenty of speakers have flown combat. Plenty have run Gulf operations. Few have done both, and fewer still have built a method out of it.
02Formats
No Plan Survives.
The talk audiences are still talking about at dinner. A candid look at stories from the cockpit of an F/A-18 and from 12 years of senior corporate decisions across the Gulf. Leaves the room with a proven approach to making the tough calls.
How a Fighter Pilot Makes Decisions.
Your moderator draws out the experiences and principles that matter most to the room. Candid stories, sharp thinking, and practical insight the audience can apply to the decisions they're facing right now.
The Decision Workshop.
Not a presentation. Participants work a real decision through a structured workbook, using the three-step method Paul developed in the cockpit and refined in business. Everyone leaves with clarity on a specific challenge, a concrete next step, and a defined risk boundary.
03Speaker
Former RAF Squadron Leader
Paul Littlejohn began his career as an RAF fighter pilot, flying Jaguars and qualifying as a Weapons Instructor. He flew operational missions over the Iraqi no-fly zone prior to the 2003 Iraq War, served as an Air Liaison Officer in Basra, and was selected for a USMC exchange tour at MCAS Miramar in San Diego, where he flew the F/A-18 as an instructor and department head for the Marine training squadron.
Paul retired as a Squadron Leader after 16 years in the RAF. He moved into management consulting, then into senior operating roles in the UAE. He became Divisional VP of Airside Operations at dnata, where he ran 10,000+ staff at one of the world's busiest airports, before moving into COO roles spanning global travel and tourism operations across 17 countries.
He now works with executives who can't afford to get high-stakes decisions wrong, bringing the decision-making frameworks he developed in the cockpit and refined in business to leaders who need to think clearly, move fast, and act with conviction under pressure.
04Booking
- [email protected]
- Web
- wingmanexecutive.com
- linkedin.com/in/paullittlejohn
Become decisive. The skill fighter pilots learn because hesitation kills.