Alan Chambers
Expedition Leader
Justin Hughes
Former Red Arrows Pilot & High-Performance Expert
A former RAF fighter pilot and Executive Officer of the Red Arrows, Justin has extensive first-hand experience of high performance in the most demanding of environments. With a subsequent 20 years as a consultant and then senior manager within a global corporate, and a highly engaging delivery style, Justin delivers clear, actionable insights into the cultures, behaviours and processes that underpin the most effective teams and organisations.
Biography
Justin Hughes works as a strategic adviser to senior leadership teams on building high-performance cultures. With clients ranging from Microsoft to the UN, NATO, and Mercedes F1, he draws on his experience as a military fighter and Red Arrows pilot to share transferable skills that help turn strategy into reality and close the gap between expectation and performance.
For six years Justin flew an RAF Tornado F3, taking part in numerous deployments including United Nations peacekeeping operations. He was then selected for the Red Arrows, becoming the Executive Officer, and performing over 250 displays worldwide. Since, Justin has presented keynote speeches and workshops around the globe sharing his expertise on teamwork and organisational effectiveness. He addresses challenges on transformation, agility, internal alignment, innovation and risk and safety with clarity and challenges conventional thinking on themes including leadership behaviour, continuous improvement, resilience, cognitive diversity, and decision-making under pressure.
Justin is a contributor to BP’s global Leading in Operations programme, and runs a workshop on culture, leadership, and priorities, focused on understanding the ‘at-a-distance’ impact of senior executives’ behaviour on what and how things happen on the front line.
Author of The Business of Excellence, Justin’s media coverage includes The Independent, The London Evening Standard, Director Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Breakfast and BBC Business Live.
“What differentiates Justin is the immediate benefit. People really bring it back to the office.”
The audience made up of Graduates and Senior Managers were very engaged. Justin was amusing and kept our attention with the use of anecdotes, explained with great passion, with video footage which offered a unique perspective and with relevant examples that we in the defence industry can relate to.
Brilliant way of making vital business lessons exciting. Whilst Justin's anecdotes and examples have audiences on the edges of their seats, the delivery is very humorous and down to earth.
Justin responded well to our brief. He had thought about the relevance of his material to our situation.
I thought he was excellent and would recommend him to anyone
“Justin Hughes was brilliant. The overwhelming feedback from a variety of coaches we had on the course was that he was the best speaker they'd ever heard.”
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