THE RIGHT STUFF LEADERSHIP!

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

STS-58 * STS-76 * STS-90

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.

Background: Commanding a successful human space mission requires the utmost in competent, trustworthy, and service-oriented leadership: the real right stuff. Too much is at stake for anything less. The challenges: formidable. The experiences: profound. The lessons learned: invaluable, for all leaders. This program will give you the leadership strategies and systems used by astronaut mission commanders so you too can lead when it counts.

Purpose: Learn how to apply "real right stuff" leadership attitudes, actions, and approaches so effectively lead in dynamic and challenging times.

Designed for: Today's leaders, anyone needing to take their understanding and application of true leadership principles and techniques to a higher level.

Topics/Points Covered:

Launching the Passion
Flexible Adaptability
Courageously Facing Reality
Service Before Self
Perfect Perspicacity
Avoiding All Mach and No Direction"
Earning Trust
Promoting Wise Risk-Taking
Developing "Smart Wingmen"
Persuading to Accountability

Special Features: The Right Stuff Leadership presents essential principles of "Purpose, Program, People, and Perspective" that true leaders must balance to get the job done, build their organization, and uplift their followers. This high content program can be tailored for any size group in any duration from 30-minute keynote to full-day program and draws on breathtaking space mission imagery and video to amplify the message.

Results: This program will build and motivate leaders at all levels to boldly take charge and make a difference. Everyone completing this program will understand and be able to apply the real "right stuff" principles for effective leadership in their own organization.

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