OVERCOMING ADVERSITY
IN TODAY'S WORLD

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

STS-58 * STS-76 * STS-90

Background: Forging out into dangerous, dynamic, risky territory takes a special mindset and skills and robust resiliency. Astronauts train continually to deal with adversity, emergencies, and "off-nominal" situations. Their experiences provide powerful tools for overcoming adversity in uncertain, tough situations. These same skills are learnable and transferable in todays global business enterprises.

Purpose: Prepare for the future by understanding and applying key principles and strategies to effectively focus on business success and growth in challenging, turbulent times.

Designed for: Teams and individuals committed to success regardless of current challenges or difficulties.

Topics/Points Covered:

Choosing the hard - how determined mission focus overcomes the competition

Total awareness - of environment, threats, self, team - key to sensing and adapting to trends driving the future

Adapting and thriving on stress ("No use dying all tensed up!") - what you must do to face constantly changing global, political, and technology realities Always pressing forward - creating courageous commitment

Results: You will strengthen your own and your team"s resilience, adaptability, and ability to forge ahead. Reach greater success in challenging, competitive, tough times and environments as you apply the lessons and examples of "Right Stuff" Resilience.

Special Features: Through specific, relevant examples illustrated within the fascinating backdrop of astronaut training and preparation, this program will teach you the key principles astronaut pilots and commanders use to succeed in the face of intense pressures, constraints, and adversity. Adaptable to any duration from keynote to full-day program, it may be customized to focus in detail on any of the topics above plus the group's specific issues, and is suitable for any size audience.

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, and astronaut, 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. 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!"