Leadership & Achievement (C)

Leadership motivation and achievement—from the boardroom to the battlefield—is all about rising to the occasion. Our leadership development speakers help you bring an empowering vision to your team and give you the tools to become an effective leader.

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Scott Parazynski

<p>Dr. Scott Parazynski is a highly decorated physician, astronaut, explorer, technology startup founder and CEO who applies the lessons of calculated risk in extreme environment exploration to leadership, teamwork and innovation.</p><p>A graduate of Stanford University and Medical School, Dr. Parazynski trained at Harvard and in Denver in preparation for a career in emergency medicine and trauma. In 1992, he was selected to join NASA’s Astronaut Corps.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

<p>Jennifer Pharr Davis is an internationally celebrated adventurer, author, mother and business owner. In 2011, she covered the 2,185-mile Appalachian Trail (AT) in forty-six days, eleven hours, and twenty minutes, a remarkable average of forty-seven miles per day and the overall fastest known time to complete the “AT.” She is the first woman to set that mark.</p><p>And she has yet to slow down.

Mike Massimino

<p>Mike Massimino is a former NASA Astronaut, a <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author, a Columbia University engineering professor, and an advisor at The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. </p><p>A veteran of two space shuttle missions and four spacewalks, Mike was the first person to tweet from space, holds the team record for the most spacewalking time on a single space shuttle mission, and successfully completed the most complicated spacewalk ever attempted to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Col. Nicole Malachowski (USAF, Ret.)

<p>Col. Nicole Malachowski, USAF (Ret.) defies stereotypes. Yes, she was a jet fighter pilot, but if you think you know her based on that, you’d be wrong.</p><p>An accomplished military leader, combat veteran, the first woman pilot on the Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Squadron, a White House Fellow, and inductee into both the National Women’s Hall of Fame and the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame, Malachowski says that her distinguished 20-year-plus Air Force career has exceeded her wildest dreams.

Brant Menswar

<p>Brant Menswar is a core values activist, former rock star and one of the country’s “Top 10 Motivational Speakers.”</p><p>Multi-hyphenate Brant Menswar is one of the country’s top motivational speakers, a best-selling author, award-winning musician, Top 200 podcast host, creator of the fastest growing book discovery app in the world and a self-professed coffee snob.

Melissa Stockwell

<p>Melissa Stockwell inspires us to embrace change and find motivation in adversity, as she shares her astonishing journey of leadership, perseverance, gratitude and competitive success.</p><p>At first glance Melissa Stockwell may appear to be the quintessential Mid-western All-American girl, but she is far more.

Mark Nutsch

<p>As portrayed by actor Chris Hemsworth in the major motion picture, <i>12 Strong</i>, Mark Nutsch (aka Mitch Nelson in the film) shares lessons learned in the now-declassified saga of a U.S.

Eric Boles

<p>Through a combination of expert coaching, consulting, and training, Eric Boles helps organizations achieve goals quickly, function within their purpose and values, and see transformative results.</p><p>A former NFL wide receiver, Eric is the founder and president of The Game Changers, a training and development company that provides a non-traditional approach to performance management and enables organizations to spark positive change, unleash their potential, and exceed their goals and expectations.</p><p>Eric presents inspiring insights and strategies to a

Scott Kress

<p>Drawing on lessons learned summiting the world’s highest mountains, Scott Kress illustrates how those same skills can help you conquer any challenge and achieve peak performance.</p>

Captain Jim Lovell

<p>NASA astronaut Captain Jim Lovell delivers an exhilarating firsthand account of one of the most famous and harrowing ordeals in space-program history, while sharing the leadership skills necessary to make any mission successful.</p><p>As leader of the Apollo 13 mission, Captain Jim Lovell uttered the famous phrase “Houston, we have a problem,” after an oxygen tank exploded inside the spacecraft. Under Capt. Lovell’s leadership, the crew returned safely to earth.</p><p>For his courageous spirit, Capt.