EXECUTION EXCELLENCE

WHEN IT REALLY MATTERS

by Commander Rick Searfoss, CSP

Execution and results from a
Top Gun Fighter Pilot and
NASA Space Shuttle Commander

Rick Searfoss was awarded the coveted speaker of the year award twice, and is the top rated keynote speaker, motivational speaker, and professional speaker for the American Speakers Bureau Corporation.

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Background: No other human team venture demands the relentless pursuit of perfect execution as successfully flying humans in the demanding, difficult, and dangerous environment of space. Astronauts train to exacting detail to execute every aspect of their missions with precision and perfection, far beyond even the impressive efforts of others renowned for execution excellence like Top Gun fighter pilots. The lessons are powerful, focused, and crucial for leaders in today's difficult business environment.

Purpose: Learn how to apply real-life yet out-of-this-world execution lessons gathered from leading human space missions to your own demanding situations and challenges.

Designed for: leaders and team members desiring to raise both their own personal and team levels of execution excellence and effectiveness

Topics/Points covered:

Defining the Mission - What's the Plan?

* Getting the Whole Team to the Launch Pad
Operationally Effective Communications

* Preparing Like It Really Matters

* Building Total Awareness

* The Discipline of Persistence

* Meaningful Accountability

* Accelerating to Mach 25 Speed of Execution
Staying Ahead of the Plan

* Flexibility, Adaptability, Agility
Keys to Survival and Success

Special Features: Right Stuff Execution draws on more than twenty-five years leadership experience in fighter jet squadrons, test flying teams, space flight crews, as commander of the most productive science research space mission ever flown, and currently as a leader in the "New Space" entrepreneurial aerospace industry. This high content program is focused on what really works in getting things done, regardless of the harsh environment or pressures, illustrated and amplified with unique real-world examples and magnificent imagery and video. It can be tailored for any size group.

Results: Everyone completing this program will understand and be able to apply the execution model used by America's astronaut mission commanders in successfully leading their crews during the most dynamic, difficult, and dangerous team undertakings on or off our planet.

Rick's vast client list includes organizations, from small enterprises to major corporations, including many of the Fortune 500. Rick Searfoss is well known for his ability to combine his business, technical and international experience with your organization's unique mission, and deliver a presentation specifically customized to your situation. Rick Searfoss has different presentations designed for groups as diverse high tech and low tech, sales, service, finance insurance, engineering, safety, technology and manufacturing.

Rick Searfoss, Colonel, USAF Retired, former Top Gun fighter pilot, test pilot, astronaut, and Space Shuttle Commander is a distinguished execution, teamwork and leadership expert speaker who has piloted or commanded three highly successful space missions. As a mission commander, he is also one of less than a hundred people in history ever chosen to command a human space mission.

Today, Rick Searfoss stays very busy as an aerospace industry executive, innovator, spokesperson, test pilot and business development expert with several entrepreneurial “New Civilian Space Companies" creating the new millennium's most leading edge technologies.

Living what Rick Searfoss speaks about: Innovation, teamwork, leadership, and peak performance in action!

In August 2008, Astronaut Speaker and Top Gun test pilot, Colonel Rick Searfoss, successfully delivered at his biggest solo performance in front of over 100,000 aviation enthusiasts as the test pilot for the incredible team from XCOR Aerospace. Rick is the world's only tri-qualified rocket test pilot. Rick Searfoss flew the XCOR Aerospace experimental prototype rocket racing aircraft for three low altitude aerobatics demonstration flights to the amazement and delight of the crowd at the world's largest air show, the Oshkosh AirVenture, to showcase XCOR's fantastic new innovations and technologies.

This new level of record breaking, peak performance flying evolves into great stories about focus, confidence, teamwork and leadership in his presentations, plus, fantastic business innovation samples and stories of the principles that Rick Searfoss addresses as the Top Gun, Astronaut Speaker!"

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