A Rare Look into the Future of Technology and Change with from a
Top Gun Fighter Pilot and
NASA Space Shuttle Commander
Rick Searfoss, CSP, as he shares:

Dreams to Hopes to Realities

Optimistic view of the amazing possibilities.

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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? As Dr. Robert Goddard, inventor of the liquid fueled rocket engine, proclaimed, "Who is to say what is impossible? For the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the realities of tomorrow."

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 Searfoss offers an enthusiastic and visionary view of the life-changing technical and cultural possibilities before us.

Background: What we have accomplished in the last 100 years is incredible, but what we is coming is amazing! Are you ready?

Purpose: Learn about "out-of-this-world" future technologies and how the future will unfold with demanding situations and challenges that will define our future.

Designed for: leaders, the curious and the bold who desire to raise both their own personal and professional levels of excellence and effectiveness.

Results: Everyone completing this program will understand what's happening, why it will happen and how you will profit from it.

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.

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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