Now, more than ever, the world needs a powerful message that champions collaboration and interdependence. The orbital perspective is a profound call to action that’s bound to leave a positive impact on our world. This message perfectly aligns and resonates with the needs of major leaders and organizations around the world today. The lessons I learned from space can help inspire organizations and individuals to collaborate better, grow further, and achieve more. I’ve spent years perfecting keynote presentations that are emotionally powerful, visually stunning and are always very well received. Standing ovations are usually received from audiences on both ends of the political spectrum and everyone in between.” – Ron Garan

Ron is a highly decorated Combat Fighter Pilot and Test Pilot, Explorer, Artist, Entrepreneur and Humanitarian who believes that appropriately designed and targeted social enterprise can solve many of the problems facing our world. He is currently Co-President and Chief Pilot for World View Inc., a pioneering high altitude and space company bringing communications technology, sensors and passengers to the edge of space.

Ron is a retired NASA astronaut who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA during four spacewalks.

• Time in Space: 178 days, 23 hours, 54 minutes
• Space Missions: STS-124, Soyuz TMA-21, Expedition 27/28
• Spacewalks: 4 totaling: 27 hours, 3 minutes
• Undersea Missions: NEEMO-9
• Time on Bottom of the Ocean: 18 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes

He flew on both the US Space Shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Ron is also an aquanaut and participated in the joint NASA-NOAA, NEEMO-9 mission, an exploration research mission held in Aquarius, the world’s only undersea research laboratory. During this mission, he and the crew spent 18 continuous days living and working on the ocean floor.

Ron’s last NASA assignment was in NASA’s Open Innovation Initiative, which seeks to increase openness, transparency, collaboration, and innovation within government. In this capacity, Ron has been involved in many global mass collaboration and citizen science programs.

Prior to retiring from the US government, Ron was on assignment with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). At USAID he led an effort called Unity Node to develop a universal, open source, collaborative platform to enable humanitarian organizations around the world to work together toward their common goals and assisted USAID to establish an Applied Research for Development Program.

Ron has a very large social media following (>4 million) and was included on Google Plus’ “Top 25 Followed” and Kred’s “Top 1% Influencer” lists. Ron has been effectively using these platforms to tell the success story of the US and International Space Programs and started an initiative called Fragile Oasis to use the “Orbital Perspective” to inspire people to improve life on Earth.

Outside his work with the US government, Ron is also a serial entrepreneur and has founded multiple business enterprises and social-impact focused startups including Manna Energy Ltd which was created to leverage the Carbon Market to finance humanitarian projects in developing countries. Manna Energy Ltd. is the first organization in the world to successfully register a United Nations Clean Development Mechanism carbon credit program for water treatment. Manna also developed, under contract with a partner organization the largest water treatment intervention conducted by a private organization – a four-million-person program operating in Kenya, completely funded by carbon credits.

Ron represented Manna Energy Ltd as one of ten global innovators in the field of water purification during the 2009 Launch-Water forum (sponsored by NASA, US State Dept., USAID, and Nike) and is now a member of the Launch Council. Ron has been selected as the technical and scientific advisor to the Social Business movement and its founder Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Ron is also a frequent guest on internationally syndicated news programs including CNN, Fox, and ABC and has hosted shows with the BBC. He has written extensively on a variety of current topics in numerous publications including USA Today, Newsweek, The International Business Times, and many others. Ron is in the process of establishing a new podcast, writing several new books, and has founded a non-profit coalition of international astronauts to inspire humanity with lessons gleaned from the orbital perspective.

Ron is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Orbital Perspective. Hailed by Time Magazine as “the most important tale ever told from space” and Space.com proclaimed it as one of the best space books of all time.

Ron routinely books speaking engagements to audiences in the thousands at high profile venues around the world including TED-Global, the Global Citizen Festival, Google Zeitgeist, the United Nations and many more.

Most Requested Speaking Topics include:

• Exploration
• Collaboration
• Building high performing teams
• Innovation • Sustainability
• Risk Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Leadership
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Business Startups

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Joseph currently serves as Admiral at the HMS Beagle, a strategic consultancy that helps its clients navigate the journey to survival…because let’s face it; we’re all in the survival business nowadays! HMSB is Jaffe’s third startup venture, after Evol8tion and crayon.

He has worked with the likes of Pearson, Nestle, Purina, Steelcase, Colgate-Palmolive, Mondelez International, Keurig Doctor Pepper and many more.

Jaffe has written 5 books including: Life After The 30-Second Spot, Join the Conversation, Flip the Funnel and Z.E.R.O. His latest book is “Built to Suck: The Inevitable Demise of the Corporation…and How to Save It?” Visit builttosuck.com to find out how you can suck less.

In 2019, he joined West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media as an instructor in the Integrated Marketing Communications online graduate program, where he wrote and lectures a course on brand evolution strategy.

Most Requested Keynotes:

★ FLAGSHIP KEYNOTE : BUILT TO SUCK AND THE PRIME DIRECTIVE

Keynote title, description and content can be customized to the event theme and positioned anywhere on the continuum of pain (hard hitting and provocative) to pleasure (positive and optimistic) Examples

: • The Prime Directive: Return to Growth

• The Key to success…is to suck less
• Built to suck
• Why we’re all in the survival business
• The Change Imperative • Why [insert your industry] is built to suck

Corporations are falling like flies. From Blockbuster to Kodak to Toys R Us to Sears, there’s a growing list falling prey to the trifecta of short-termism, risk aversion and constant disruption.

While survival is a not a guarantee and there may not be a happy ending for every company, “thrival” or a return to growth IS possible for those that are strong, brave and resolute in their commitment to change. Companies today need to be vigilant when it comes to staying relevant, evolving and ultimately fulfilling against the prime directive: growth.

It begins with an honest and cathartic introspection and then focuses on four critical pillars that, combined, create a powerful, differentiated and compelling growth roadmap:

1. Digital Disruption
2. Talent Resurrection
3. Customer Obsession
4. Corporate Citizenship

Take Heed. Take Action. Take Responsibility. Time is running out!

★ What’s your Heresy? What if you fired yourself? What if you funded your competition? What if you slaughtered the cash cow? What if you turned your back on your customer?

These are just a few unthinkable questions that, when answered, form a brilliantly original and provocative philosophy called Heresy. And it’s not far fetched, futuristic or theoretical at all; it’s very real and supported by real examples from winning companies like Netflix, REI, Intel and Costco that have already put this into practice.

• Discover how Heresy will push you to the brink, bring you back with a meaningful jolt, and ultimately force positive change and growth.
• Learn what it means to “put yourself out of business” and then pivot towards a scalable and potentially game changing result for your company.
• Experience a new mindset and perspective that leads to breakthrough ideas and innovation Are you ready to face your deepest, darkest fears?

★ Disrupting Digital

The turn of the century saw the revolution of digital. It ushered in an era of instant commerce, communication and collaboration that forever changed the lives of consumers, businesses and brands. Bricks and mortar crumbled, entire industries vanished and new markets were created in their place.

Digital changed everything. It did then. It does now. It will in the future.

The only problem is that digital has become Vanilla. Tired. Boring. Expected. Predictable. And to add insult to injury, there are far more toys and shiny objects now that dilute, distract and detract. Some are real and some are fake. Don’t be fooled by bright and shiny objects.

Instead, focus on one single question: are you changing the game with digital? If not, you’re just another lemming waiting to fall off the cliff.

★ Customer Obsession as the Killer App

Forget customer service, customer experience or customer centricity. The new obsession is….customer obsession Just ask Jeff. He’ll tell you. Bezos spoke about customer obsession back in his very first letter to shareholders, and it’s no coincidence that brands like Starbucks, Netflix and Nike stand tall next to Amazon. Most others prioritize “strangers” (first time buyers) and “prostitutes” (switchers) over fans, advocates, ambassadors and zealots. But take heed… brands that continue to drink from the swill that is acquisition marketing will eventually be met with a dry pipeline and a painful death. • Discover how to flip the funnel where retention becomes the new acquisition • Learn how customer intimacy can convert into an unassailable competitive advantage Uncover a series of game changing strategies and tactics that can help you drive real and meaningful growth

★ Ban the Employee

In these turbulent times, companies will live and die based on the extent to which they are able to win the talent war. And spoiler alert: they’re losing it right now. Big time! Instead of harnessing the collective creativity and incredible entrepreneurial potential of talent, companies take the low road of cost cutting, dehumanizing and automating, but guess what? You can’t automate stupid! But what if companies could transform their “employees’ into intrapreneurs, and instead of controlling, litigating or repressing them…

• Fund them
• Liberate them
• Empower them It’s time to ban the employee (or at least the word!)

It’s time to embrace a new world order where talent is a direct innovation catalyst and exponential growth driver

★ The Evolution of Capitalism

Companies talk about Corporate Social Responsibility or Purpose Marketing, but it’s just PR Spin. They are bad actors. Irresponsible denizens that turn a blind eye as the planet continues to spin out of control, the Amazon burns and humans suffer under the burden of obesity, drug dependency and credit card bills. In order to DO good, you have to BE good. In a world where big government continues to fail its people, can big business step in and become the hero? The answer is a definitive yes if – and only if – they adopt an approach of transparency, integrity and soul.

• Take stock
• Take responsibility
• Step up
• Be a corporate citizen.

It’s not just common sense; it’s good business sense too. Obviously.

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