The Ultimate Safety Presentation

RICK SEARFOSS OPERATIONAL
SAFETY EXPERT

Rick Searfoss, former astronaut and motivational speaker. Rick Searfoss draws upon his experience as an astronaut and business leader to deliver a powerful motivational presentations to businesses all over the world.

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

Accident- and incident-free high performance 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.

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.

Rick's 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 mission 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.