INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

That Really Works

by Commander Rick Searfoss, CSP

Innovation and Creativity Solutions from a Top Gun Fighter Pilot and NASA Space Shuttle Commander

Rick Searfoss is the top rated keynote speaker, motivational speaker, and professional speaker for the American Speakers Bureau.

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Background: Flexibility, adaptability, and real-time creativity and innovation in dynamic, potentially life-threatening situations - a must for space shuttle commnaders and astronauts like Rick Searfoss.

Coupled with his extensive current work with the most innovative "New Space" entrepreneurial companies in existence, including test-flying the world's only liquid-propellant rocket plane, (see below) this real-world experience allows him to present a unique program to present valuable lessons of real-world, leading-edge innovation.

Purpose: Learn and apply the "Leading Edge" three-part innovation sequence to make continual, real-time improvements in business and personal operations and development.

Designed for: Individuals and organizations seeking faster, more effective development and execution of innovative processes, leadership, quality, services, and products.

Topics/Points Covered:

Operations innovation versus Development Innovation

The Genius of A Thousand Little "Ahas"

"Hyper-Observation" Need Assessment

Culture of Possibilities

Ever Onward and Upward

Forging the Synergistic Operations Outlook

Defining the Innovation Trajectory

Disruptive Equals Constructive . . .

Rapid Visualization, Modeling, and Prototyping

Success is the Only Option

Special Features: Dare to Explore! blazes the trail to show you how to translate wishful desires to be more creative and innovative into discrete, actionable steps to innovatively improve business operations and development. This program can be presented in any duration from keynote to full-day program and is suitable for any size audience. Incorporation of not only spectacular space mission imagery, but relevant video of some of the planet's most innovative activities and companies, magnifies this content-rich, value-added program.

Results: Everyone completing this program will be able to apply the leading-edge innovation steps in a specific, concrete way to make immediate improvements to how they do their job, operate their business, and envision the possibilities for future growth and development.

Rick Searfoss, Colonel, USAF Retired, former Top Gun fighter pilot, test pilot, astronaut, and Space Shuttle Commander is a distinguished innovation, 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.

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.

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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