Mike Mullane

Titles

Countdown To Teamwork
Countdown To Teamwork is a team-building /leadership program in which Colonel Mullane motivates the audience on their practice of these fundamentals of teamwork: guarding against a "normalization of deviance", responsibility, trust, courageous self-leadership, and courageous team leadership. This program is applicable to all teams everywhere. It has thrilled and inspired personnel in sales, manufacturing, production, safety ... in ALL areas of company operations. It has been cheered by managers and blue-collar workers, by union and non-union teams. It has been enjoyed by men and women from every corner of corporate America ... from perfume sales teams to nuclear power plant safety teams; from insurance company teams to medical equipment manufacturers; from beverage producers to record label teams.

Countdown To Safety
In his program, "Countdown To Safety", Astronaut Mullane delivers a powerful message on the individual`s role in keeping themselves and their teams safe in hazardous environments. Mullane introduces this subject with a recount of his own near-death experience in a fighter jet, when he failed to speak up about an unsafe situation. He assumed another crewmember, with more flying time, "knew best" about the safety of their operations. In other words, at a critical moment in a hazardous operation, Mullane surrendered his responsibility for safety to someone else. He became a "safety passenger". The result was his (and the pilot`s) narrow escape from death during their ejection from the crashing jet. The destruction of a multi-million dollar plane might have been avoided if Mullane had maintained his "safety presence" and voiced his assessment on the dangers of the pilot`s decision. Instead, he assumed he didn`t "count", that the pilot knew best.

The Lighter Side Of Spaceflight
A wildly entertaining and educational program on the astronaut experience.