Keynotes and the leadership workshop
Outstanding workshop! One of the best leadership development activities I have participated in.
Dr. Zachary Hodges, President, HCC Northwest College
Great job of summarizing highly technical and complex ideas into steps any organization can follow. I can use his concepts to better organize and grow my business.
Ashley Brown, President, Acerra Technologies
Great program, a lot to reflect on. I can see myself using these self-awareness tools for my personal development.
Hussain Ali, President and CEO, Houston Dynamic Displays
Entire presentation was excellent. Easily understood – great examples.
Phyllis Bailey, President, PJB Public Relations Consulting
Love this concept and look forward to making this a goal for our leadership team. We need more of this thought process in the world.
Debra Schindler Boultinghouse, President, Genesis BCS
Fantastic presentation. Great insight into such an extraordinary mission.
James Pettigrew, Director of Operations, Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI)
Excellent. Your presentation really drove home the importance of orienting the team (and the organization) around a core set of values, and illustrated how that translates into sound decision making logic… Amazing!
Jason Sibre, Vice President, global financial services firm
You delivered an excellent and thought-provoking talk, and you’re the first of all the speakers I’ve seen to receive a set of perfect evaluations.
John Duncan, Community Training Network
Your words were encouraging and inspiring .
Mary E. Barnes-Tilley, Ph.D, Assistant Academic Dean, Blinn College
Hearing your success story gives me hope that business leaders can be enlightened to a better way of operating.
S. Arlene Dilworth, CPA, CTP, President, Total BackOffice Solutions, Inc.
The triathlon of values, their interaction and results and the process to indelibly imprint them into your organization were all incredibly impactful to us.
Dr. Bob DeGroot, President, Sales Training International
Your presentation to the superintendents and educational leaders was excellent and very relevant to any organization, including school districts. The presentation focused on the importance of establishing a core set of values and trust, and how a change in culture transformed NASA. The story was compelling and inspirational.
John R. Thomas, Executive Director, Region 18 Education Service Center
The books, Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom and the international edition, Mission Control Leadership
Gripping, engaging and hard to put down. This incredible team’s leadership journey — and development of precise decision-making in the face of unbelievable pressure — are inspiring. Filled with fascinating insights, every leader will find parallels to their own organization. A must-have for anyone leading a high-performance team and an invaluable addition to any business library.
Marshall Goldsmith, The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller – Triggers
What can your team learn from top tier leaders at NASA Mission Control? Maybe more than you think. In Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom, former NASA Flight Director Paul Hill tells the true story of the game-changing transformation of Mission Control’s senior leadership team. Ride along on a journey of evolution as these executives rediscover the core purpose and values that had never left their organization. Hill’s candor and intensity makes this a fascinating read for every leader!
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level
This is an arresting work. Paul Hill offers a view from the inside track. From there, he takes you to the business world outside of NASA, and shows how the principles and values apply in a far larger arena. No leader or manager can fail to benefit from the lessons captured here.
Michael D. Griffin, NASA Administrator, 2005-09 and Schafer Corporation CEO
A stunning ‘instructional manual’ for business executives and leaders who want to learn from the best team on the planet. For the first time, a leader of the Mission Operations Directorate of NASA shares the hard-won lessons of this world-famous organization and translates them into key principles and examples designed to hone a superior leadership team grounded in integrity and bedrock organizational values. This book, like its author, is one-of-a kind.
Mary Lynne Dittmar, President, Coalition for Deep Space Exploration and former member, Human Spaceflight Committee, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
This engaging book tells the story of how NASA’s renowned Mission Control evolved into an extraordinary team that directed many of the world’s greatest technical triumphs. Equally important is Paul Hill’s cautionary tale that sustaining excellence may be more difficult than attaining it. Leaders from every organization will benefit from these vital lessons.
Walter E. Natemeyer, North American Training and Development
Mission Control is the leadership laboratory for those who accept the challenge and the risk of ultimate responsibility for all actions necessary for crew safety and mission success in manned spaceflight. Paul Hill is a select graduate.
Eugene F. Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director and Director of Mission Operations, 1983 – 1994
The purpose of the book is intended to show a model for improving the leadership of any company or organization—If the venerated Mission Control can benefit from this approach, so can yours. But even if you’re not trying to restructure a company, Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom offers interesting insights into how even a high-performing organization like Mission Control can suffer management problems, and how those problems can be corrected. Read more…
Jeff Foust, The Space Review
If you read one book in 2018, please read this one, especially if you have a leadership position and are tasked with leading change! You CAN create a great team and still achieve cost efficiency by following the strategies and tactics in the book, believe me, it will be worth your while. Read more…
Patti Blackstaffe, Strategic Sense
Hill is a thought-leader in how to turn around struggling business cultures. His philosophy mixes morality, values and lots of buy-in. I’ve read my share of be-a-better-leader books; some are a waste of time, others offer a few good tips you can test back at the office. But this one is spot on. Read more…
Dan Shearer, Editor, Green Valley News/Sahuarita Sun
Engaging, forthright, and intense; written with the candor and passion of an evangelist. I was inspired by the story of his personal journey to success, and the importance of understanding the specific challenge, common cause, and mission of team building while accepting a high level of individual responsibility for its success. Essential reading for business executives, leaders and managers, and should be a readily accessible resource guide for ready reference. Read more…
Richard R. Blake
This narrative shows not only techniques and methods for improving one’s leadership skills, but the journey of discovery that got Hill to those discoveries. I have lots of leadership and management books on my shelf – this one will probably be the one that gets pulled down more often than any of them. Read more…
Paul Dye, Editor-in-chief of KITPLANES magazine, former NASA Flight Director
Mission operations at NASA is one of the most extreme decision-making environments in the world of technology project management. In his new book, former director Paul Sean Hill lifts the lid on how to get things right under the spotlight. Read more…
Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology
Impressively well written, exceptionally informative, thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ and an inherently engaging read from cover to cover, Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom: A Guide to Unleashing Team Performance is unreservedly recommended as a critically important and essential addition to personal, professional, corporate, governmental, community, and academic library business management collections and supplemental studies lists. Read more…
Midwest Book Review
Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom is a great reference for those in charge of organization culture that impacts team performance. It is a management guide for decision making and maintaining a work culture of excellent and reliable performance that NASA Mission Control is known for. The lessons and tips can be applied in a wide area of settings. Read more…
Jose Maria Delos Santos, ProjectManagement.com
One-part insider’s view to NASA operations, one-part case study, and one-part syllabus for business leaders looking to grow their team. There are definitely business truths in this book and many take-aways for business leaders. Read more…
Compass Book Ratings
Lessons are interwoven in a thrilling insight into the inner working of NASA’s Mission Control. Not surprisingly this has turned out to be one of the best books on leadership in recent times. Read more…
Sandeep Singh, The Freepress Journal, Mumbai
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