For an audience
Speaking
Give people one clear idea they will remember and use when the pressure rises.
Book Paul for my eventStrategy · decisions · execution
When you’re ahead,
you choose.
When you’re behind, you react.
Wingman helps leadership teams make important decisions earlier, before delay starts costing revenue, time or performance.
See how Paul can help
Paul Littlejohn
Fighter pilot · Consultant · COO
Speaking
Training
Executive away days
Consulting & advisory
Deciding in time
The world keeps moving.
The decision will not wait.
You will rarely have all the information you want. The job is to see the situation clearly, decide in time and keep enough room to change course.
The same decisions keep coming back.
Priorities change whenever the pressure changes.
Too much still depends on you.
Problems reach the top after the useful choices have narrowed.
I’m running the business. But lately it feels as though the business is running me.
It shows up as lost revenue, avoidable cost, slower delivery and work that keeps returning to the top.
Ahead
You
choose.
You can see what matters, decide in time and act while useful choices remain.
Behind
You
react.
The latest problem sets the agenda. Each response narrows what can happen next.
Ways to work with Paul
Start with
what you need.
One idea. Four practical ways to bring it into the business.
For a leadership group
Training
Help leaders work through real decisions and leave better equipped for the next one.
Train my leadership teamFor an executive team
The Mission
See how the team thinks and works under pressure, then take those lessons back into the business.
Explore The Mission for my teamFor an owner or CEO
Consulting &
advisory
Turn a live strategic or operating problem into clear priorities, ownership and action.
Talk through my situationWhat changes
Leaders see more clearly. They decide better. They act sooner.
Speaking and training give people four practical disciplines for making better decisions when the answer is not obvious.
Problems surface earlier
See the situation clearly
People notice what matters before delay makes the problem more expensive.
Decisions move
Define what good looks like
Teams can act without waiting for perfect information or another round of meetings.
Ownership spreads
Choose the next move
More decisions are made at the right level instead of returning to the top.
The plan keeps moving
Test the downside
Priorities hold when the pressure changes, with enough room left to adjust.
16 years RAF fast-jet operations
Why Paul thinks this way
The aircraft is where the thinking began.
The work is about your business.
Paul spent sixteen years in RAF fast-jet operations. On exchange with the United States Marine Corps, he flew the F/A-18 Hornet, instructed other fighter pilots and served as a department head.
He then took that way of seeing and deciding into management consulting, transformation and senior operating leadership in the Gulf.
The aim was never to rely on the heroic recovery. It was to stay far enough ahead that useful choices remained.
Selected proof
The thinking has to work
in the real world.
Savings delivered through consulting work for Europe’s largest tour operator.
People in a 24/7 operation led with a USD 250 million budget.
Operating costs reduced over three years at dnata Airside Operations.
Reduction in customer complaints within twelve months across a 17-country business.
Revenue opportunity unlocked through a ten-month digitisation at Tourism 365.
In practice · Tourism
From too many priorities to a plan the business can deliver
A Middle Eastern tourism provider had ambitious growth plans for the year, but too many priorities and no single view of what had to happen next. Wingman worked with the founder to decide what mattered, turn it into clear business deliverables and give the team a practical way to track implementation.
The work
- Strategy sessions with the founder
- A shared decision and delivery dashboard
- Clear ownership and delivery milestones
- An independent sounding board throughout implementation
The outcomes
- Agreed priorities for the year
- Clear business deliverables that support implementation
- A booking system linked directly to revenue growth
The founder and team now have a clear view of what matters this year, what each deliverable requires and how progress will be tracked.
Talk through my situation
?
The book · In progress
The book is coming.
Staying Ahead of the Jet
Paul is writing about why capable people and organisations lose room to choose—and how to get it back before events take over.
The book brings together lessons from fast-jet operations, business, everyday life and published research. It is for anyone who has to act before all the facts are known.
Start with the situation
What is costing your business most right now?
If one situation is taking too much time, cutting across the business or holding up progress, talk it through with Paul.