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Combat pilot & leadership strategist

MJ Hegar

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MJ Hegar helps organizations build resilient leadership and inclusive cultures through her experience as a combat pilot and policy reformer. MJ works with teams on leadership development, advocacy, and organizational change, earning recognition as a Foreign Policy Leading Global Thinker and Army Women's Foundation Hall of Fame inductee.

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MJ Hegar is a combat helicopter pilot, bestselling author, and policy advocate whose fight to open doors for others has reshaped how we think about resilience and leadership. MJ received a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor after being shot down in Afghanistan, flying her damaged aircraft to safety under heavy fire. She successfully challenged the military's ground combat exclusion policy for women, and her memoir, Shoot Like a Girl, became a bestseller now in development as a major motion picture. MJ draws on her experience as a pilot, policy reformer, congressional candidate, and defense consultant to show organizations how to build cultures where people advocate for themselves and their teams. She has taught communications at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business and serves on the Board of Directors at the Texas Advocacy Project. Foreign Policy named her a Leading Global Thinker in 2013, and the Army Women's Foundation inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2015. Audiences leave MJ's keynotes with practical frameworks for pushing through institutional barriers, a clearer understanding of how individual advocacy strengthens team performance, and renewed confidence to act when the path forward feels blocked. Lin-Manuel Miranda called her campaign video "the best political ad anyone's ever seen" for good reason: her storytelling moves people to action. Book MJ Hegar to give your audience a story they will not stop talking about.

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