<p>If you were given the name Amelia Earhart, would you learn to fly? </p><p> Professional speaker, pilot, author and artist Amelia Rose Earhart was faced with this exact question… and chose to go all in, completing her private, instrument and commercial flight training with the goal of someday flying all the way around the world- just like the incredible American hero she was named after- Amelia Mary Earhart. </p><p> In 2014, she completed her goal- circumnavigating the globe along a 28,000 nautical mile route- all in a single-engine aircraft. </p><p> This modern-day Amelia Earhart says the most important lesson she learned during her journey is that in order to truly succeed, and also grow along the way, we need to learn to love life’s turbulence- by staying agile amidst the storms that inevitably pop up along each of our paths. </p><p> Amelia has fifteen-years of experience as a helicopter and breaking news reporter in Denver and Los Angeles, has sent numerous teenage girls to flight school during her ten-year stretch as president of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, hosts a tech podcast focused on the future of AI in business, and is now turning her aerial photos into original paintings. She has been invited by Apple Computers, Boeing, American Express, Berkshire Hathaway, United Healthcare and dozens of other industry leaders to share her story.</p><p>In her recently published book,<em> Learn to Love the Turbulence: “Flight Lessons”</em> on becoming the pilot in command of your own journey, Amelia shares ways to think like a pilot to move through life with agility and confidence. </p>
Single-Engine Aircraft Pilot Who Flew Around the World; President of Fly With Amelia Foundation
<ul><li><strong>Leading Through Turbulence: Create Your Flight Plan For Team Success</strong></li><li>In Amelia’s keynote, she shares three non-negotiables that she used in her successful, uncharted trip around the globe, and they are directly transferrable to the business world. Whether the attendees are CEOs/leaders, a sales team, or an entire team of an organization, Amelia’s talk contains actionable takeaways that people can start implementing immediately.</li><li><strong>Consider All Directions: Course Correction in Action</strong></li><li>When unexpected challenges force us to choose a different path toward reaching our goal, it can be tempting to lose momentum, or even give up completely. In this breakout session, flexibility and options for success are unlocked and explored, as Amelia shares stories and strategies centered around seeking new paths with confidence and creativity. Gone are the days when responding to challenges with a simple and rigid North, East, South or West approach is acceptable. Amelia empowers teams to unlock all directions of their compass through course-correction techniques to help navigate the roughest storms.</li><li><strong>Weight and Balance: How to Turn Small Shifts Into Massive Results</strong></li><li>In this insightful and actionable flight lesson, Amelia leads teams through an honest assessment of determining which practices, habits and limiting ideas can be shifted, consolidated or eliminated in order to soar further than ever imagined. This lesson packs an extra punch, as Amelia uses actual equipment from her custom designed 200-gallon auxiliary fuel tank from her global flight to emphasize the importance of prioritizing fuel over unnecessary baggage.</li><li><strong>Plan for Obstacles: The Power of Understanding Worst-Case Scenarios</strong></li><li>Creating a well-researched plan for tackling potential pitfalls and challenges is an absolute must when exploring uncharted territory. Developing a deep understanding of what could go wrong when innovating and growing, boosts self-confidence and instills calmness in the face of adversity, when adversity happens. In stressful situations, our body’s hormone levels rise, affecting our thinking, perception, and memory retrieval. Through an in-depth breakdown of how and why pilots undergo open water survival training, Amelia explains how rehearsing for emergency situations in the professional environment can boost confidence, performance, and illuminate new options.</li><li><strong> Learn to Love the Turbulence</strong></li><li>Like the American hero that she was named for, Amelia Rose Earhart is a dynamic, boundary-defying, around-the-world pilot. Her inspiring talks have earned rave reviews from a range of corporate audiences — taking them into the cockpit for both a great story and unforgettable flight lessons on handling headwinds, celebrating tailwinds, and defining your own airspace in both life and the workplace.</li></ul>