Beam Maue

What He’s Passionate About

Beam is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations achieve their full potential in a Maslow-like, Self-actualization kind of way. He reflects on the many paths to the summit of performance during his marathon training (14 and counting) and other continued exploration of history and philosophy.

Professional Experience

Dr. Brian “Beam” Maue has been engaged in global change initiatives for more than a decade. Most notably, from 2017-2020, Beam cofounded and led AFWERX--a talented, nationally dispersed innovation team for the 600,000 members of the United States Air Force. In 2020, AFWERX was ranked #16 in the world by Fast Company—out of 865 organizations evaluated—as a “Best Workplace for Innovators.”
Beam is also the author of The Experiment That Succeeded, which reveals the unique change model he used during AFWERX’s startup years.
Prior to joining TiER1, Beam also served as an Air Force officer for 21 years, primarily creating or implementing global strategic deterrence efforts. His enterprise-level duties included serving as an ICBM launch officer and evaluator, analyzing and evolving nuclear capability budgets, and developing and delivering nuclear treaty initiatives. He also instructed at the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Department of Management.

His Success

Beam's book also reflects his study of history and philosophy as well as how he applied best practice insights--ranging from Sun Tzu to Silicon Valley--into models and methods to create a people-empowering environment and increase performance capabilities.

Family Matters

Beam has continuous practice with persistence as he enjoys the high energy of a family with a wonderful wife, five fast moving kiddos, and three rescue shelter cats.

Fun Fact

Beam's diverse background includes living underground for over 200 days (spread across four years) as a nuclear missile launch officer.