Rick Searfoss TOPICS: Astronauts Leadership Team Building Innovation FEE CATEGORY:* 15.0k to 20.0k TRAVELS FROM: California Video Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Request This Speaker

Rick Searfoss: Program Outlines

LEADERSHIP - "Mach 25 Leadership - The Real Right Stuff?"


Attitudes, actions, and approaches for today?s leaders at every level. Purpose, program, people, perspective. True leaders balance all these elements to get the job done, build their organization, and uplift their followers. Human space flight lessons learned: invaluable, for any leader, any profession, any time! This program superbly builds and motivates leaders at all levels to boldly take charge and make a difference.

The Guidelines: attitudes, actions, and approaches for today's leaders:

Promoting Wise Risk-taking
Developing "Smart Wingmen"
Teaching Correct Principles Launching the Passion
Energizing the Mission
Bonding the Crew
Pushing the Limits
Flexible Adaptability
Eyes on Targets
Courageously Facing Reality
Service Before Self
Framing the Challenge
Perfect Perspicacity
Avoiding "All Mach and No Direction"
Earning Trust
Staying the Course
Persuading to Accountability


TEAMWORK "Apogee! - Take Your Team to the Top"


Principles for all team players from rookie to mentor to leader. Successful human space missions demand that hundreds of different teams perform together flawlessly and consistently, with the flight crew as much at the top of their game as a World Series or Super Bowl team. An awesome model for any team venture! "Apogee!" shares this teamwork legacy to accelerate your team's ascent to the pinnacle of cohesion and performance.

The Principles for all team players from rookie to mentor to leader:

Building a Common Shared Vision
Being Other-Oriented
Tailoring Individual Strengths to the Team
Training Like It Really Matters
Realizing Everyone Makes a Difference
Sensing When and How to Peak
Promoting "Max Q" High Awareness
Fostering Collective Courage
Mutually Supporting Your Crewmates
Having Fun On the Way
Sharing the Consensus of Passion
Developing a Culture of Inherentt Success
Welcoming Mistake-Driven Learning

PEAK PERFORMANCE "Countdown to Success"


Keys to unlock your potential for sustained outstanding performance. The competition to become an astronaut is fierce - less than one in a hundred qualified applicants is selected. What leads to such competitive success? Constant, dedicated pursuit of outstanding individual performance. Rick will arm your group with the astronaut achievement tool kit to launch on your own trajectories to peak personal effectiveness!

INNOVATION "Dare to Explore!"


Flexibility, adaptability, and real-time innovation in dynamic, potentially life-threatening situations -a must for space mission commanders. Learn the three-part sequence for innovation success: "hyper-observation" to sense and prioritize the real needs, "a culture of possibilities" to make iconoclastic approaches the norm, and an ?ever onward and upward" process using constant, rapid visualization, modeling, and prototyping to quickly reach elegant, creative solutions to real-world challenges.

FUTURE "As We Dream - A Spacefarer's Vision"


Exciting and optimistic view of the future we can make. In a short 100 years humankind has gone from earthbound to living in space. What challenges and opportunities await us in the next 100 years? With the rare combined perspective of having flown in space, a world-class technical education, and ongoing direct involvement with many private entrepreneurial space ventures, Rick offers a unique view of the technical and cultural possibilities. Unloose your imagination!

Spectacular video and still imagery in every program to amplify Rick's powerful messages.

The Vision: "Sharing the leadership, teamwork, and achievement lessons of human space flight while bringing the wonder of Space to Earth for all to enjoy!"

PATRIOTISM "America the Beautiful from Space"
Fascinating stories, breathtaking images. America - truly a blessed land. Through the glorious medium of astronaut earth observations photographs, we'll take a breathtaking journey around America. A fascinating combination of inspiring historical, geographical, and cultural stories with stunning images testifying of sublime beauty, wonder, and hope. It will make you more proud than ever to be an American.

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