Vernice Armour
From beat cop to combat pilot in three years, Vernice Armour was America’s first African American female combat pilot. Upon completion of two combat tours in Iraq as an AH-1W Super Cobra Attack Helicopter pilot, Vernice leveraged her experiences and conceptualized the Zero to Breakthrough™ Success Model.
As featured on Oprah Winfrey, CNN, Tavis Smiley, NPR and others, Vernice Armour’s dynamic style and presentation methods have inspired hundreds of organizations and individuals. Her blend of high-energy presentation with humorous anecdotes and commanding content educate and edify while it engages and entertains.
Vernice ultimately impacts organizations and individuals with an understanding of the passion and leadership required to excel. Through her keynotes, seminars, workshops, and executive retreats, Vernice conveys messages of Zero to Breakthrough™ through her unique insight and life strategy: “A Breakthrough Mentality Creates a Breakthrough Life!”
Among her many accomplishments, Vernice has been awarded as a pioneering pilot, including her commanding role in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Vernice was the Marine Corps’ first African American Female pilot, the first African American woman on the Nashville Police Department's motorcycle squad, Camp Pendleton's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year, two-time titleholder in Camp Pendleton's annual Strongest Warrior Competition, and a running back for the San Diego Sunfire women's professional football team. Vernice is currently working on her first book, Zero to Breakthrough™.
Topics
Vernice Armour will always customize her keynote for your organization.
Who Needs A Runway?!? How To Take Off From Where You Are And Go From Zero to Breakthrough!
The bottom line is that we have to move into action from where we are! Unfortunately, many people become paralyzed in the preparation phase. Decide what you want, put your stake in the ground and execute! Vernice calls this making a commitment to the commitment. Give your organization the boost they need to come together as a team, understand how their objectives support the overall strategy and accomplish the mission achieving the desired results!
Give your attendees an invigorating perspective that reveals how to:
- Ignite Your Work-life: Infuse passion in your life professionally and personally!
- Breakthrough Obstacles: Recognize and utilize the skills and talents of everyone around you
- Unleash Your Inner Potential: Lead a Zero to Breakthrough™ life with a ‘Breakthrough Mentality’ as the foundation
- EXCELerate your Success: Unleash your full potential no matter where you are personally starting from
Zero To Breakthrough™ A Breakthrough Mentality Creates A Breakthrough Life!
Put passion back in your life and design the path to your dreams with a ‘Breakthrough Mentality.’ Be inspired by Vernice’s personal story of setbacks, challenges, adventure, success and triumph. Vernice takes you on an amazing journey through her life experiences and, most importantly, the lessons learned. Unleash the personal leadership power needed to take your life to the next level!
Attendees will discover:
- How Passion, Purpose & Positive Steps create breakthrough results and shape your destiny
- The Tangibility of Possibility
- Delay is not Denial and to Retreat does not mean Defeat
- How to ignite your spark and make YOUR dreams a reality!
(Great for Employee Resource Groups, Women, Minorities and Students)
Driving Diversity Deep into the DNA of Your Organization! One Mission, One Goal, One Team!
Vernice reveals, as a former Diversity Officer for Headquarters Marine Corps and liaison to the Pentagon, what it took to help a 200,000 personnel organization get back on track! When you bring people together, you will have differences and similarities that result in tension and complexities...THIS IS NORMAL! How you MANAGE diversity is the key!
The leader will discover how to:
- Know your people and harness the power, skills and talents of the team
- Unleash the full potential of diversity to impact the bottom line
- Effectively tap into the power of the Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Teach everyone to be an ambassador for diversity
- Create a culture that values and respects all team members: One Mission, One Goal, One Team!
(Great for senior and middle management, Diversity Councils and Employee Resource Groups)
Reviews
“The overall evaluations were all glowing and members left Boston on an exciting and educational high! What a perfect way to begin the 2010-2011 IAAP year!” Manager of Education, IAAP
“Thank you for a truly fabulous and inspiring session with many rela-life takeaways we can apply in our professional and personal lives. I loved how it was presented with genuine examples and good humor.” IAAP Meeting Attendee
"If you are seeking someone with the skill sets, knowledge base and personality to help bring out the best in your workforce; if you need an expert who can explain the link between diversity and the bottom line; if you want a keynote speaker who will attract attendees and hold them in their seats as they hang on every word, then Vernice Armour is a must get." Paula Miller-Lester, Publisher, MWIB Magazine
"I was so inspired, I hit the ground running with several ideas that I have been planning for months now..." M. Mack Jones, Bank of America
"Vernice, you're the first speaker we've ever had to get a rating of 5 from all attendees!" Frances Reimers, ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership
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