The Ultimate Safety Presentation

SAFETY - THE ONLY OPTION

by Commander Rick Searfoss, CSP

Safety 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.

Rick's Safety Background: Accident and incident-free high performance Top Gun military and NASA jet flying career over 20 years. In-depth experience in flight safety programs in military operational fighter squadrons, flight test programs, and NASA Space Shuttle missions.

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Space Shuttle mission commander, with overall responsibility for safe and mission-effective crew performance for a $500 million mission on a $2 billion national asset, Space Shuttle Columbia.

Chief of T-38 Flying Safety, United States Astronaut Corps, focused on safe and effective operation of NASA's astronaut T-38 fleet with continuous operations throughout military and civilian airspace and airports nationwide. Flight operations include very high intensity simulated Space Shuttle approaches, formation, and test pilot flight test technique proficiency flights.

Executive Safety Director, United Space Alliance (USA). USA processes and prepares the Space Shuttle and payloads for flight. Two-year assignment with responsibility for overall system safety programs and discipline for a work force of 3000 people and for strategic guidance and initiatives to improve all phases of Shuttle ground operations and preparations.

Current Chief Test Pilot for XCOR Aerospace overall responsibility for safe execution of flight test planning and execution for two different design rocket-propelled experimental technology development aircraft, the "EZ Rocket" and the "Rocket Racer" prototype. Prepared for and flew first flight of the Rocket Racer. Also directing cockpit design, operational planning, and safety program for XCOR's sub-orbital rocket plane/spacecraft in development.

His core business speaking topics of leadership, teamwork, innovation, and peak performance all tie in to effective safety programs. For more specific safety presentations, Colonel Searfoss has also created and presents a fascinating and powerful benchmark safety-specific program: "Human Space flight Systems Safety "Down-to-Earth Lessons for You!" This program specifically benchmarks elements of safety success in high-demand, high-workload, unforgiving, complex systems. It draws on the many powerful and positive examples of over forty years of human space flight and three missions personally flown. It also acknowledges and draws the hard lessons learned from America's three human space flight tragedies.

Overall mission of this presentation: provide focused tools for any high-performance organization to operate more safely and effectively.

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!"

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