Turn Pressure Into Performance

The role of a leader is not to eliminate uncertainty. It is to create clarity, focus, and action within it.

When conditions change fast and the pressure is on, teams do not need perfect answers. They need leaders who can create focus, communicate clearly, and help people move forward with confidence.

Carey Lohrenz helps leaders and organizations navigate uncertainty, execute with discipline, and perform at their best when it matters most.

As one of the first female F-14 Tomcat fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, a Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author, and a PhD researcher in leadership and human development, Carey combines real-world experience with research-backed insights to help organizations thrive under pressure.

IT'S ABOUT CREATING CLARITY.

LEADERSHIP ISN'T ABOUT CONTROLLING EVERYTHING.

Markets shift. Technology changes. Priorities compete. Teams are asked to do more with less.

In these moments, leaders cannot control every variable. But they can control where people focus their attention.

The organizations that perform at the highest levels are not the ones with perfect information. They are led by people who create clarity, align priorities, and communicate what is possible.

Because when people know what matters most, they move faster, execute better, and perform with greater confidence.

Trusted by organizations that can't afford to lose focus.

In today’s environment, pressure is constant and distractions are everywhere. Carey helps leaders cut through complexity, create clarity, and focus on what matters most—so teams can perform at their best when it matters most.

Meet Carey Lohrenz

For more than two decades, Carey has helped organizations perform under pressure.

Her leadership lessons were forged in one of the world’s most demanding environments: the cockpit of the F-14 Tomcat. Today, she brings those lessons to leaders facing a different kind of challenge—rapid change, increasing complexity, and relentless pressure to perform.

What makes Carey’s perspective unique is the combination of operational experience, bestselling leadership frameworks, national leadership research, and doctoral study focused on how leaders create trust, alignment, and resilience during periods of uncertainty.

Her work is grounded in one core belief:

The role of a leader is not to eliminate uncertainty. It is to create clarity, focus, and action within it.

WHAT AUDIENCES TAKE AWAY:

Three Keynotes. One Mission.

Helping leaders create clarity, build trust, and perform at their best when the pressure is on.

FEARLESS LEADERSHIP

Lead with courage, communicate with clarity, and inspire confidence in your team.

SPAN OF CONTROL

Turn your strategy into execution by leading with focus, alignment, and accountability.

HIGH PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE

Leaders need a repeatable way to make decisions, communicate clearly, and keep teams aligned.

Research Meets Reality

Grounded in the cockpit. Backed by the data.

In addition to her experience leading in high-stakes environments, Carey conducts ongoing leadership research focused on how leaders communicate, create trust, and help teams adapt during periods of uncertainty.

The result is a keynote experience that is both inspiring and practical — grounded in real-world experience, informed by current research, and immediately applicable to today’s leadership challenges.

The Difference

Most leadership advice comes from theory or experience.

Carey’s work is built on both — real-world command experience and ongoing doctoral research, fused into one framework.

Fearless Leadership

High-Performance Lessons from the Flight Deck

As an aviation pioneer, Carey D. Lohrenz learned what fearless leadership means in some of the most demanding and extreme environments imaginable: the cockpit of an F-14 and the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Here, her teams had to perform at their peak—or lives were on the line. Faltering leadership was simply unacceptable. Through these experiences, Lohrenz identified a fundamental truth: high-performing teams require fearless leaders.

Since leaving the Navy, she’s translated that lesson into a new field, helping top business leaders, from Fortune 500 executives to middle managers, supercharge performance in today’s competitive business environments. In Fearless Leadership, Lohrenz walks you through the three fundamentals of real fearlessness—courage, tenacity, and integrity—and then reveals fearless leadership in action, offering advice on how to set a bold vision, bring the team together (as wingmen, not Top Gun mavericks), execute effectively, and stay resilient through hard times.

Whether you’re stepping into your first leadership role or looking to get out of a longstanding rut, Fearless Leadership will act like your afterburner—rocketing you to ever-higher levels of performance.

Span of Contril

What To Do When You're Under Pressure, Overwhelmed, And Ready To Get What You Really Want

What can you control? What do you do when you’re under pressure, overwhelmed, and ready to get what you really want? As one of the first female F-14 Tomcat fighter pilots in the US Navy, as well as a mom, wife, business consultant, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and global speaker, author Carey Lohrenz knows that the stress we experience can be just as intense as the stress in the cockpit of a fighter jet going Mach 2. But she’s got a secret weapon to prevail: years of training to overcome the specific natures of uncertainty, stress, burnout, anxiety, and pressure.

At our core, we know we’ve lost control. We’ve lost our grip on what we really want and who we really want to be. In order to solve the challenges of chaos and make our goals, dreams, and commitments a reality, we have to understand that in order to succeed when the pressure is on and to improve our performance overall, we’ve got to know what we can and cannot control.

In Span of Control, Lohrenz walks us through the fundamentals of surviving and succeeding during times of crisis. Weaving together eye-opening science, gripping personal stories, insightful interviews, prescriptive advice, and a high-octane dose of encouragement and practicality, Span of Control helps leaders recognize how to focus on what matters most, formulate a plan for success, and communicate what’s possible.

What Leaders Are Saying

“Vixen rocked! I just wanted to thank you for all you did to make our meeting inspiring and fantastic. I personally thought you did a great job connecting with everyone, and your story is inspiring, and your lessons very appropriate for all we are going through. Yesterday one of my VP’s was giving a presentation, and the title of it was ‘Lose sight, and you lose the fight’ And he gave you full credit for the quote!”

“Carey Lohrenz was great. She was so charming and her talk was incredibly on point. Her story resonated with the students, and she touched on the key points that we try to communicate to the students on a daily basis…that it takes a diverse team to accomplish a successful task, that there are lessons learned from failure, and finally lessons in tenacity and resilience. Now that she herself has a kid in college, she was really able to relate to the students.”

“I just wanted to let you know how wonderful it was to have Carey speak at our event last week! We were honored have Carey at our final executive education session for 2015. She is so down to earth, amazingly inspiring, and beyond engaging! She has the seamless ability to connect her military experience with leadership in the business world. As I’ve returned to the workplace more than one person has quoted her in various settings; from “80%” to ‘If you lose sight, you lose the fight’ and many others. I highly recommend her as a speaker and feel privileged to have met her! She Rocks – Go Fearless Leadership!”

When Pressure Rises, Leadership Matters More.

Give your audience practical tools, renewed confidence to navigate uncertainty, and a clear path forward. Book Carey for Your Next Event.