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Dan Rooney
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Transform your team's performance with proven combat-tested leadership strategies and purpose-driven excellence with Dan Rooney, speaker, F-16 fighter pilot and Folds of Honor Foundation CEO.


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Lt Col Dan Rooney combines exceptional military service with professional golf expertise to deliver powerful insights on leadership and purpose. As an F-16 fighter pilot with three combat tours, two-time Top Gun recipient, and PGA golf professional, Colonel Dan brings a unique perspective to the speaking platform. Founder and CEO of Folds of Honor Foundation, Colonel Dan has raised over $290 million providing 62,000 scholarships to families of fallen military members and first responders. His leadership extends beyond philanthropy as a USA Today best-selling author, speaker for USA Ryder Cup teams, and recipient of the USAF Distinguished Service Medal. Colonel Dan helps organizations build resilience and performance excellence through his CAVU (Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited) methodology. His military precision combined with sports psychology expertise offers practical frameworks for navigating change, developing leadership discipline, and creating purpose-driven cultures in today's challenging business environment. Audiences leave Colonel Dan's presentations with actionable strategies for peak performance routines, renewed perspective on overcoming obstacles, and inspiration to transform personal purpose into organizational impact. His real-world examples demonstrate how ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary results through disciplined commitment. Book Lt Col Dan Rooney to give your team the rare combination of combat-tested wisdom and championship mindset needed to excel in today's competitive landscape.
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CAVU is an Air Force acronym that stands for Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited. Translated, it describes the perfect conditions to be a fighter pilot, when steel blue skies invite them to spread their wings like a supersonic eagle. Fighter pilots cherish CAVU days because they know tomorrow can bring challenging conditions. Life is no different. In Fly Into the Wind, Colonel Dan shares a code of living that combines powerful tenets which helps you discover and seize your best life. Colonel Dan demonstrates how all of us are connected by God in more ways than we realize, and that the path to fulfillment begins with changing ourselves to better one another.
Lt Col Dan Rooney, F-16 fighter pilot and PGA golf professional, combines military precision with championship mindset to help organizations build resilience and achieve peak performance through his proven CAVU methodology. Book this USA Today best-selling author and Folds of Honor Foundation founder to give your team the combat-tested wisdom and actionable strategies needed to excel in today's competitive landscape.
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Dan Rooney structures his presentations around the CAVU (Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited) methodology, a framework drawn from his F-16 fighter pilot training that he applies to leadership, resilience, and purpose-building in organisational contexts.
Lt Col Dan Rooney speaks on purpose-driven leadership, resilience under pressure, and peak performance through his CAVU methodology. He is the founder and CEO of Folds of Honor Foundation, which has raised over $290 million and provided 62,000 scholarships to families of fallen military members and first responders.
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