Cujo’s core message empowers teams to reach their highest potential through positive, forward-focused accountability, and everywhere he speaks or teaches, he lives that purpose.
He and his team work hand-in-hand with meeting professionals to make event planning seamless, collaborative, and easy. At your event, Cujo will leave your audience inspired, energized, and ready to take ownership and drive results both at work and at home.
Reach out to Cujo’s team to brief the mission: tell us your event goals, audience, timing, and any constraints so we can assess fit and plan the right approach.
Lock in your date with a deposit. Once the date is confirmed we will schedule a pre-mission call to align on audience profile, key outcomes, and logistics.
Cujo will collaborate with your team to finalize event details, key messages, audience engagement, and AV requirements, treating it like a mission checklist to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Cujo arrives early to review the venue and AV setup, conducts a sound check, and coordinates with the staff to ensure the keynote goes off flawlessly.
After the event, Cujo can lead a brief debrief to review outcomes, capture key insights, and outline next steps to sustain momentum.
Debrief to Win workshops are award-winning, evolving programs designed for teams of all sizes. Offered in half-day, full-day, or two-day formats, virtual or in-person, they teach the foundational processes, cultural practices, and immersive tools teams need to build trust, accountability, and high performance.
Top Gun Teamwork workshops, led by former Top Gun instructors, help organizations build leadership, accountability, and unbreakable team cohesion. Based on elite fighter school principles, the program develops a winning mindset and equips teams to achieve lasting success.
2022 Vistage Speaker of the Year. Delivers 80+ keynotes and workshops each year. Works effortlessly with event teams. Zero ego. Pure execution.
Can't get Cujo for your date? He has a team of fighter pilots (including fellow Fighter Weapons School instructors) who can deliver the same keynote, with their own stories, using the same methodology and impact.
Cujo spent years softening his military edge, until Harvard said, “This is exactly what we needed.” The military sets the standard for leadership, accountability, and teamwork. Cujo doesn’t apologize for it. He owns it.
He was on track to become a multi-star general until a 10-year battle with colon cancer ended his flying career, his trajectory, and his identity. From commanding F‑22 squadrons to selling mortgages over the phone, he rebuilt from zero. This isn’t just a story. It’s proof.
Robert “Cujo” Teschner is a retired F-15 / F-22 fighter pilot. He is also a former F-15 Weapons School Instructor, F-22 Squadron Commander, senior Joint Staff officer, and combat veteran.
He holds advanced degrees in Operational Art and Science and National Security Strategy and has extensive experience in tactical planning and execution and organizational leadership.
From 2004 to 2006, he served as the US Air Force’s expert in post-mission debriefing, the methodology used by high-performing military teams to self-correct and improve continuously.
Cujo retired immediately after pinning-on full Colonel due to complications from cancer-related care and started an international business consulting practice based in St. Louis, MO.
His company, VMax Group, has a mission to teach, inspire and nurture teams on how to really come together, making work more fulfilling and effective.
Robert “Cujo” Teschner is a combat veteran, former F‑15 instructor at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, and former F‑22 squadron commander. A recognized expert in team accountability, he authored the practices still used across the Air Force today.
After retiring as a Colonel following a battle with cancer, Cujo translated his military leadership expertise to keynote speaking and business. He is now CEO of VMax Group and the bestselling author of Debrief to Win and Aiming Higher.
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