With an impressive and diverse professional portfolio, Ed has
a wide range of presentation topics to motivate, captivate, and
energize any audience. Tailored to meet your event's objectives
and audience needs, his presentations have consistently garnered
high praise and earned him a reputation as a fascinatingly effective
speaker.
Whether addressing 80,000 cheering football fans during a San
Francisco 49ers' halftime show, delivering a speech to a standing
room only audience of 3,000 in Rochester, New York's Eastman Theater,
leading a discussion with 1,100 members of the Explorers Club
in New York City or motivating 2,500 University of Texas Medical
College graduates during a commencement address, Ed has enthralled
hundreds of diverse audiences.
Astronaut - 84 record breaking days in space
Executive - 25 years of innovative business leadership
Author - 2 novels, 1 highly acclaimed textbook, well published
articles
Scientist - Ph.D. in engineering and Physics from California
Institute of Technology and 14 years as a ground breaking NASA
researcher.
Ed Gibson:
Profile
For 21 years, Ed Gibson held the American record for time in
space, having spent 84 straight days aboard America’s first
space station, Skylab, as the Scientist-Pilot. During that 1974
mission, he worked outside the space station for more than 15
hours during three different space walks.
During his 14-year career with NASA, Ed served on the support
crew of the Apollo 12 mission and was the ground communicator
with the flight crew as they explored the moon. He earned Air
Force wings and logged over 2,200 hours in high-performance aircraft
and 100 hours in helicopters.
Ed earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the
University of Rochester and a master’s degree and doctorate
in Engineering and Physics from the California Institute of Technology.
After one year in industry, he was selected as one of six members
of the first group of Scientist-Astronauts, edging out 2,000 other
applicants.
After his NASA career, Ed excelled in program management and
marketing with Booz, Allen, and Hamilton and TRW. He later served
as the president of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
and his own consulting company, Gibson International. He is recently
retired as Senior Vice President and Contract Manager with Science
Applications International Corporation.
Programs
Speech Topic: Leadership and Space Flight
Ed weaves absorbing descriptions of the experience of spaceflight
into clear identifications of leadership qualities of the early
pioneers who set the stage, the rocketry spearhead, the political
leader who inspired a nation, astronauts who set the bar high,
and dynamic heroes on the ground who compelled success in technical
development and mission control.
Ed shows how each of these leaders, driven by vision and courage,
earned the respect and trust of the teams they led. As they tempered
these qualities with empathy, they added a human touch to their
greatness.
Speech Topic: Our Greatest Adventure - Space Flight
Gliding over Earth at a serene five miles per second, living
months without gravity, and watching Earth’s features become
as familiar as the face of an old friend, Ed intrigues audiences
with personal experiences gained during his 35-million-mile flight
into space. With touches of humor, he puts the mind of the audience
into the spacecraft to enjoy the sensations and emotions felt
exclusively by those few humans who’ve led our outward thrusts
into the universe around us — astronauts and cosmonauts.
Speech Topic: Management and Space Flight
As Ed describes the triumphs of America’s space program
during the Apollo era, he identifies the seven basic principles
of good management that led to success — principles that
apply to any endeavor, public, private, or non-profit. Integrating
personal experiences from liftoff and space walks to re-entry
into the Earth’s atmosphere, Ed illustrates the ability
to initiate action, focus on the mission, organize lean, competent
teams, motivate and properly support staff, and lastly, get out
of the way.
The presentation is enriched by Ed’s ability to creatively
put the listener’s mind in the spacecraft to experience
flight. Through humor and an insightful perspective into America’s
opportunities in space, he demonstrates how solid management can
enable the U.S. to maintain and extend its leading role in space
exploration.
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