Donnie Cochran
Enhance Performance Consulting, Inc.Donnie Cochran
Enhance Performance Consulting, Inc.
Years of Experience: 34
Who I Am + What I do at DeltaPoint Partners
Service You Provide
Enhance Performance Consulting, Inc. is dedicated to inspiring leaders and growing their people. We offer Inspirational Leadership Keynotes, Team Building Keynotes, High-Performance Coaching, and customized leadership and team development training, each of which is designed to build employees resiliency and engagement and inspire individuals’ performance to achieve sustainable high value and results.
How We Help Our Clients
We engage, enlighten, and energize leaders, teams and individuals to achieve heightened and sustained levels of performance and potential in both their personal and professional lives. In an honest and moving delivery of world class content and unparalleled service, we ignite and inspire positive individual commitment and change for reaching sustainable high-performance and productivity. We are also Certified as a Minority Business Enterprise through the National Minority Supplier Development Council, verified as a Service Disable Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), and a Certified High-Performance Coach.
Why I do What I Do
I have a story to tell about my unlikely journey from a small farm in Southwest Georgia to the outside chance earning an engineering degree and a commission as an officer in the United States Navy. I made the dubious journey of becoming a fighter pilot, flying off the desks of aircraft carriers; to the inconceivable chance of being selected as the First African American to fly as a Blue Angels pilot. I made the doubtful journey of screening for Command and becoming a Commanding Officer of a fighter squadron that deployed at sea; to the improbable opportunity to compete and earn the prestigious honor becoming the first African American Commanding Officer and Flight Leader of the Blue Angels. My story is so unlikely due to so many unbelievable reasons, most of which were from the dark clouds of my own self-limiting beliefs and behaviors.
The world is filled with many people just like I was, experiencing some of the same dubious self-limiting beliefs and behaviors as I have experienced during my journey. My story demonstrates and reveals how developing burning desire to succeed, and frameworks and step-by-step processes enables your personal power of perseverance, courage, dedication, character and honor to overcoming the struggles to live to the fullest. I want the world to know, how overcoming these struggles enables you to serve others, which is the keys to living a fulfilling and successful life.
How I Spend My Free Time
My wife and I enjoy encouraging and mentoring our children and grandchildren. They are our future, and we want to ensure that they have benefits of learning some of the lessons we have learned during our life journey. We enjoy traveling internationally and domestically. Some of our most inspiring and enjoyable moments have been on our trips. We also enjoy working and enhancing the value of our farm. It is a great way of staying grounded to reality and to things that really matters.
References / Testimonials
Testimonials from Leadership and Team Development sessions:
“Captain Cochran is by far one of the most impressive individuals I have ever had the privilege to hear speak. He is humble, inspirational, and riveting. His stories are powerful and relevant to what we are talking about. He is the kind of guy you wish you would have had the opportunity to work for.”
”Excellent presentation. His talk about his time with the Blue Angels and why leadership was so important was outstanding and very fitting for our group. My favorite.”
“Excellent. Capt. Cochran’s speech was my favorite of the week. I loved how he used his experiences with The Blue Angels and tied those into examples of Leadership qualities. He is such a genuine and heartfelt person with so much integrity.”
“Inspirational. What a fantastic career and person.”
“The best hands down”
“Very engaging and a nice balance of speaking and audiovisual presentation. Real-world examples of teamwork and how to overcome difficulties.”
“Standing ovation speech! Excellent!”