- Ex-US and French fighter pilot turned corporate business and aviation/defence consultant
- Expert in stress management, leadership, and followership
- Former triathlon world champion
- Bestselling author business book ‘D.Brief’ – taking lessons learned from surviving flying a combat jet fighter and adapting these to the boardoom
Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet is a former world champion triathlon and duathlon athlete who started flying at the age of fourteen. The French-Canadian’s love of flying saw him become a US fighter pilot before. In 2008, he joined the French navy where, for over a decade, he gained vast experience as a fighter pilot with over 2,500 hours’ flight time and 200 carrier landings. His time as a fighter pilot saw him fly in numerous combat missions in Iraq.
His time in the military saw Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet face numerous emergencies where he needed to make snap life or death decisions when leading younger pilots into combat. His excellent leadership and success in these situations saw him earn the military cross for valor.
When not flying combat missions, Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet took part in airshows. His excellence in acrobatic flying made him a world champion once more. He is one of the very few people who have taken part in three varying sports at a world championship level.
In 2017, Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet left his military career behind and joined Air Canada as a pilot. He also started training people from various companies in adapted civil and military aviation methods. In so doing, he has helped top teams unleash their full potential in a stressful working environment. His special focus when working with companies is leadership, followership, stress management, and communication.
Due to a stroke that stopped him from flying for a year, he started his own consulting company. He is now one of the world’s youngest aviation/defence consultants on television. Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet also decided to adapt his methods of surviving as a combat jet fighter with excelling in a corporate environment in his Amazon bestseller D.Brief.
Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet – Speaker
As a keynote speaker, Pierre-Henri ‘Ate’ Chuet specialises in subjects relating to leadership, time management, briefing, and debriefing. Based in Canada, he is fluent in both French and English.
Speaking Topics
Pierre using technology can take audiences into the cockpit to fly planes virtually, running various scenarios that make for an interactive presentation.
- BEYOND THE COCKPIT: Discover what “exponential” really means – how fast the world is changing and how fighter pilots’ methods can help you keep up. Switch to a continuous improvement mindset. Create value every day with your team and turn D.briefing into a habit. Take control of your mindset and apply the step-by-step methodology.
- TURN STRESS INTO AN ALLY: Landing on a boat at night is stressful. So is getting shot at in combat. Learn the technics used by fighter pilots to perform at their best and make good decisions every day on the battlefield. This keynote focuses on mental preparation and anticipation and the audience will leave with tools that they can apply right away in their everyday life.
- SUPERSONIC LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWERSHIP: In a combat patrol the job of the followers, the wingmen, is extremely difficult. Let us look at the flight leaders’ and wingmen’s golden rules and how they can help in the corporate world.