About Vertical Performance Enterprises

Vertical Performance Enterprises is a U.S. veteran-owned leadership and management consulting company specializing in executive leadership development and organizational performance improvement. Our mission is to help leaders inspire their teams to create world-changing impact. We work with leaders in mission-critical industries to take their teams to the next level through the application of proven leadership principles and performance-improvement fundamentals that have consistently produced winning results in complex, uncertain, and dynamic operating environments. Our approach focuses on the integration of three essential areas: strategy, change management, and leadership development.

Our Approach

Strategy

Does your organization have a clear strategy for growth? Vertical Performance can help you clarify and communicate your strategy to maximize your growth.

Change Management

Change is a necessary aspect of growth. What changes does your company need to make to attain new heights? Let Vertical Performance help you navigate these changes to achieve your strategic objectives and increase your bottom line.

Leadership Development

You need leaders to grow your organization. How will you develop leaders at each level who can implement strategic objectives, sustain progress toward your goal, and manage risk along the way? Let Vertical Performance customize a leadership development program for your organization that will ensure maximum growth.

Mission-Critical Industries Served

Our Core Values

  • Integrity

  • Professionalism

  • Service

  • Reliability

  • Trust

Integrity

We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of honesty and ethical conduct, ensuring that we always strive to “do the right thing for the right reasons.”

Trust

We are determined to be great teammates with our clients, always working together to create and maintain a culture of mutual respect and trust.

Professionalism

We are committed to setting the example through our own performance by “doing things right” with the rigor, depth, and dedication to excellence that our clients deserve.

Reliability

We are dedicated to ensuring our clients can count on us to be reliable, responsive, and results-oriented by consistently delivering on what we promise while constantly aspiring to exceed expectations.

Service

We believe in service before self, putting our clients’ needs ahead of our own because we only succeed when our clients succeed in reaching their full potential.

  • Integrity

    We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of honesty and ethical conduct, ensuring that we always strive to “do the right thing for the right reasons.”

  • Trust

    We are determined to be great teammates with our clients, always working together to create and maintain a culture of mutual respect and trust.

  • Professionalism

    We are committed to setting the example through our own performance by “doing things right” with the rigor, depth, and dedication to excellence that our clients deserve.

  • Reliability

    We are dedicated to ensuring our clients can count on us to be reliable, responsive, and results-oriented by consistently delivering on what we promise while constantly aspiring to exceed expectations.

  • Service

    We believe in service before self, putting our clients’ needs ahead of our own because we only succeed when our clients succeed in reaching their full potential.

About David Robinson, CEO

Dave Robinson is a senior executive and retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel with over three decades of experience leading complex organizations and high-performing teams. A former combat fighter pilot and TOPGUN instructor who works with growth-oriented leaders to help take their teams to the next level, Dave is an expert and international speaker on the subjects of leadership development and organizational performance improvement. He is the author of The Substance of Leadership: A Practical Framework for Effectively Leading a High-Performing Team, and a consultant to companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100s across a wide variety of industries including finance, logistics, aviation, energy, safety, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, technology, and biotechnology.

As the CEO of Vertical Performance, Dave has worked with over 150 companies on strategy, leadership, and change management to help executive leaders inspire their teams to create world-changing impact. He’s been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Chief Executive Magazine, and he has also been a guest speaker at numerous Fortune 500 company training venues.

Prior to founding Vertical Performance Enterprises in 2011, Dave served in several executive leadership positions in the areas of strategy, operations, logistics, maintenance, safety, human resources, innovation, training, and education throughout his 25-year military career. He flew over 3,500 hours, 200 aircraft carrier landings, and 100 combat missions in the FA-18 Hornet, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for supervising over 20,000 combat missions and more than 2,000 medical evacuations while serving as the director of air operations in Iraq. Dave also served in the Pentagon as a strategy director for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In his final assignment, he was the commanding officer (CEO) of a $12B aviation enterprise where he managed logistics and sustainment for a fleet of 250 jet aircraft, and led over 2,500 personnel supporting global operations.

Dave graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, and subsequently earned a master’s degree in national security strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He and his wife, Mary Delle, live near Hilton Head, South Carolina.

David Robinson, Colonel, USMC (Ret)