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Join us for a memorable opening keynote presentation with retired astronaut Colonel Mike Mullane who will discuss key aspects of leadership, including responsibility, trust, courageous self-leadership and team leadership. Colonel Mullane will focus on the importance of guarding against a "normalization of deviance," and will describe how a normalization of deviance within NASA was the root cause of the most infamous and tragic of technical errors in NASA history: the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Prior to joining NASA, COLONEL MIKE MULLANE completed 134 combat missions in his 20-year career with the Air Force. Colonel Mullane was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of space shuttle astronauts. He completed three space missions, including the maiden voyage of the Discovery, and two missions on the Atlantis. Colonel Mullane has been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and is the recipient of many awards, including the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit and the NASA Space Flight Medal.
This key note was Awesome!
It turns out I did some work on Space Shuttle and Space Station during my time at IBM Federal Systems. And I have stickers of the Mission Badges and a signed picture of the crew already!
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Thursday, October 22, 10:00 - 11:00 am
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