The Sweeney Agency

About Mike Mullane - Inspirational Leadership Speaker:

Colonel Mike Mullane is a retired NASA Astronaut and member of the International Space Hall of Fame. He was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of Space Shuttle Astronauts, completing three space missions on the shuttles Discovery and Atlantis before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990.

Mullane is the recipient of many awards, including the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit and the NASA Space Flight Medal. Since his retirement from NASA, Colonel Mullane has written an award-winning children's book Liftoff! An Astronaut's Dream and Do Your Ears Pop In Space? a popular space-fact book. He is also the author of Riding Rockets, and The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut. Colonel Mullane hosts Inside Space, a nationally syndicated cable television program of the USA Network.

Mike Mullane's clients include Intel, Chevron, Pacific Bell, Exxon Mobile Corporation, Gillette, Verizon, and many others.

What Mike Mullane Talks About:

Mullane's wonderfully entertaining presentations of Stories From Space have been eagerly solicited by organizations of all kinds - from Fortune 500 companies to professional associations; from societies to schools and universities. Mullane uses his life story as a background to illustrate poignant messages about courageous leadership and self-leadership, trust, responsibility and great teamwork. His popular presentation, Countdown To Teamwork is very inspirational. It contains great humor and inside space/astronaut stories. Audiences come away from the program feeling inspired and motivated to be the best possible team members and team leaders.

Mike's presentations seek to help audiences improve their performance, by addressing issues including:

Teamwork
Mike demonstrates that teams maintain their high standards of performance by setting the highest standards; connecting the dots and by considering the instincts of team members in the decision-making process.

Leadership
Truly courageous team leaders maximize the potential of their people through this leadership philosophy: I want YOU to be more successful than ME.

Self-Leadership
Mullane uses his life story to develop show that self-leaders set very lofty goals; stay focused on what's important; constantly do their best at every task. He develops this philosophy of self-leadership: Success isn't a destination. It's a continuous life journey of working toward successively higher goals..

Avoiding A Normalization of Deviance
Normalization of Deviance: A long-term phenomenon in which individuals or teams repeatedly accept a lower standard of performance until that lower standard becomes the norm. Using stories like the Challenger disaster to illustrate, Mike explains how to avoid such a shift in standards.