DARE TO EXPLORE! - LEADING EDGE INNOVATION

Background: Flexibility, adaptability, and real-time innovation in dynamic, potentially life-threatening situations - a must for astronauts like Rick Searfoss. Coupled with his extensive current work with the most innovative 'New Space' entrepreneurial companies in existence, including test-flying the world's only liquid-propellant rocket plane, this real-world experience allows him to present a unique program to present valuable lessons of real-world, leading-edge innovation

Purpose: Learn and apply the "Leading Edge"; three-part innovation sequence to make continual, real-time improvements in business and personal operations and development.

Designed for: Individuals and organizations seeking faster, more effective development and execution of innovative processes, services, and products.

Topics/Points Covered:

Operations innovation versus Development Innovation
The Genius of A Thousand Little "Ahas"
"Hyper-Observation" Need Assessment
Culture of Possibilities
Ever Onward and Upward
Forging the Synergistic Operations Outlook
Defining the Innovation Trajectory
Disruptive Equals Constructive
Rapid Visualization, Modeling, and Prototyping
Success is the Only Option

Special Features: Dare to Explore! blazes the trail to show you how to translate wishful desires to be more creative and innovative into discrete, actionable steps to innovatively improve business operations and development. This program can be presented in any duration from keynote to full-day program and is suitable for any size audience. Incorporation of not only spectacular space mission imagery, but relevant video of some of the planet's most innovative activities and companies, magnifies this content-rich, value-added program.

Results: Everyone completing this program will be able to apply the leading-edge innovation steps in a specific, concrete way to make immediate improvements to how they do their job, operate their business, and envision the possibilities for future growth and development.

Rick Searfoss, Colonel, USAF Retired, former astronaut, is a distinguished expert speaker on innovation 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.