Amelia Rose Earhart Speaker Biography
Pilot, Author, Podcast Host & Artist; President of the Fly With Amelia Foundation; One of the Youngest Women to Fly Around the World in a Single Engine Aircraft
When Amelia Rose Earhart decided to honor her namesake, aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart, she did it in the biggest way possible — by becoming the first person to pilot a single-engine Pilatus PC-12-NG around the world. The journey to successfully complete this 28,000 nautical miles flight included challenges and obstacles, but ultimately taught her invaluable lessons about life.
Flying Around the World
It was an odds-defying achievement that included more than two years of route and logistical planning, extensive flight training, open water survival training, and recruiting, training, and leading a team of 100 people. Utilizing the invaluable concept of a flight plan to achieve her dream, Amelia crafted a strategic business plan to design, fund, and market her flight. In the process, she developed a large and passionate social following and forged almost $2 million in partnerships with 28 corporations. Through the Fly with Amelia Foundation, a nonprofit she founded to foster the next generation of women in aviation, Amelia granted 10 flight training scholarships to women ages 16-18 as she circled the plane over Howland Island, the area of the South Pacific Ocean where Amelia Earhart disappeared.
Inspirational Speaker
Amelia’s story of hard work, determination, and dedication resonates deeply with many audiences. She takes them along on her epic flight—from Howland Island to touching down on the same runway where she departed in 1937—drawing powerful comparisons to how we lead, work as teams, handle turbulence, and boldly journey into uncharted territory with confidence. Amelia has earned rave reviews from audiences ranging from the Fortune 500 to the United States Air Force Academy.
Book
In her recently published book, Learn to Love the Turbulence: ‘Flight Lessons’ on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey, Earhart shares ways to think like a pilot to move through life with agility and confidence. Her contributions to encouraging young women in aviation and her innovative approach to integrating technology and art through her work are also noteworthy.
Media
Before flying around the world, Ms. Earhart was best known as a television news anchor and reporter, covering breaking news, traffic, and weather in Denver and Los Angeles. She continues to use her professional interviewing and polished presenting skills as an emcee and moderator. Her story has been featured in major media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Today Show, and others.
Honors
She is a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award and was named by the Jaycees as one of the “Top Ten Young Americans.”
Amelia Rose Earhart Speaking Topics
Learn to Love the Turbulence: The Power of a Pilot in Command Mentality
Pilots are known for their clear communication skills, decisiveness, situational awareness, information processing, workload management, and overall sense of personal responsibility. These same skills are invaluable in today’s workplace, given the varied tasks and responsibilities each team member is required to perform. This talk will teach you how to take flight toward new, elevated goals, with confidence and a sense of agility. Amelia Rose Earhart's keynote message will ask you to ponder the question, “what’s your relationship with turbulence?”, meaning, how do you react when things don’t go exactly as planned? By sharing her story of how she endured and recovered from major professional turbulence, while planning and completing a flight all the way around the world, Amelia shares practices to illuminate new paths using all 360 degrees of our personal compass, embrace challenges by diffusing their power with preparation, and empower us to elevate to new heights by acting with multiple levels of situational awareness.
Lead Like a Pilot: Navigate Change and Success
Take on a Pilot’s Perspective to Navigate Change and Success with Agility. Pilots are known for their clear communication skills, decisiveness, situational awareness, information processing, workload management, and overall sense of personal responsibility. These same skills are invaluable in today’s workplace, given the varied tasks and responsibilities each team member is required to perform, often in the work from home environment. In this talk, each member of your team will learn immediate ways to think and act with a pilot in command mentality. Learn: • How conducting “pre-flight” style team briefings can ensure understanding, preparedness and confidence among team members • How to identify and avoid the five most hazardous attitudes to stress responses, and how to counter them with positive action • How the use of checklists can free up working memory while building team trust and synchronicity
Own Your Airspace: Taking a Pilot’s Perspective on Navigating Life’s Turbulence
What’s one thing successful teams will need to have in common? A willingness to venture into uncharted territory. During professional and personal change, teams who take action on bold, resourceful, and never-before imagined solutions are the ones that will find growth. As a boundary-pushing around the world pilot, Amelia Rose Earhart knows exactly what it takes to venture into uncharted territory; now she’s sharing her one-of-a-kind perspective and strategy with the world. With the odds stacked against her, Amelia brought her own bold idea to life in 2014, piloting a small plane (Pilatus PC-12NG) 28,000 Nautical Miles around the globe. To accomplish this, Amelia self-funded her private, instrument and commercial flight training, went through open-water survival training, crafted a strategic business plan to design, fund and market her around the world attempt, help to design and build a custom auxiliary fuel tank for the trip, grew a large and passionate social following to spread the word, raised close to $2 million in partnerships with 28 corporations, founded and ran a charity organization to send numerous teenage girls to flight school, and more. In Amelia’s keynote, she shares 3 non-negotiables that she used in her successful, uncharted trip around the globe, which is directly transferrable to the business world. Whether the attendees are CEOs/leaders, a sales team, or an entire team of an organization, Amelia’s talk contains actionable takeaways that people can start implementing immediately. Consider All Directions: Course correction in action When unexpected challenges force us to choose a different path toward reaching our goal, it can be tempting to lose momentum or even give up completely. In this breakout session, flexibility and options for success are unlocked and explored, as Amelia shares stories and strategies centered around seeking new paths with confidence and creativity. Gone are the days when responding to challenges with a simple and rigid North, East, Southwest approach is acceptable, and here, Amelia empowers teams to unlock all directions of their compass through course-correction techniques to help navigate the roughest storms. Weight & Balance: How to turn small shifts into massive results in this insightful and actionable flight lesson, Amelia leads teams through an honest assessment of determining which practices, habits and limiting ideas can be shifted, consolidated or eliminated all together in order to fly further than ever imagined. This lesson packs an extra punch, as Amelia uses actual equipment from her custom designed 200-gallon auxiliary fuel tank from her global flight to emphasize the importance of prioritizing fuel over unnecessary baggage. Plan for Obstacles: The power of understanding worst case scenarios Creating a well-researched plan for tackling potential pitfalls and challenges is an absolute must when exploring uncharted territory. Developing a deep understanding of what could go wrong when innovating and growing, boosts self-confidence, presence, and instills calmness in the face of adversity when they arrive. In stressful situations, our body’s hormone levels rise, affecting our thinking, perception, and memory retrieval. Through an in-depth breakdown of how and why pilots undergo open water survival training, Amelia explains how rehearsing for emergency situations in the professional environment can boost confidence, illuminate options and boost performance.
CREW
In her CREW keynote, around the world pilot Amelia Rose Earhart invites you into the cockpit for a raw and invigorating discussion about the importance of learning to love the turbulence. Inspired by the tenacious around the world flight attempt of her namesake, Amelia Rose took to the skies with the goal of flying a single engine aircraft 28,000 miles around the globe. Just months before her launch, Amelia’s flight nearly came to a very public crash landing. Take flight with Amelia as she shares her real-time response to navigating and course correcting a flight plan, but more importantly, navigating a life. Amelia’s keynote message lingers with her audiences, combining skills from a decade long career as an NBC TV Anchor & Host in Denver, CO with an invigorating real-life account of a successful (& turbulent) attempt to fly around the world. “The only aircraft that never experiences turbulence is the one that stays locked up in a hangar. That’s not what planes were built for and that’s not what you and I were built for either. We were built to take flight.” -Amelia Rose Earhart
Virtual Program: The Holding Pattern
"Sit tight, stay calm, we’ll let you know as soon as we learn more. Once again, we thank you for flying the friendly skies…” We’re all stuck in a personal and professional holding patterns as we navigate through the difficult challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic. Our businesses are basically grounded, our families are forced to attend school from home. It all sounds more like the latest Netflix binge than real life. Unfortunately, this is our current reality, and we’ve got to figure out how to fly this plane. As an around the world pilot, Amelia has faced challenges that have grounded her flights, closed borders and rocked her wings so hard she thought they’d snap right off. As a speaker, she has led Fortune 500 leaders toward their personal goals by discussing the importance of learning to love turbulence. During this bumpy time, Amelia provides virtual discussions and workshops as webinars and/or pre-produced videos, specifically tailored to help you and your team stay in flight during this holding pattern we are clearly going to be in for quite a while. This discussion between your team will include actionable ways your team can reduce “fuel burn” by prioritizing tasks, create a work from home a routine and checklist to maintain straight and level “flight”, and most importantly, discussing several ways to quiet the mental games our “what if” minds use to distract us away from productivity and success.
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Speaker Amelia Rose Earhart beautifully and eloquently shared her Flight Lessons ... including thoughts on handling headwinds & celebrating tailwinds. Ask yourself: Are you the passenger, the pilot or air traffic control?
- National Association of Specialty Pharmacy |
Her inspiring keynote address based on her soon to be released book, Learn to Love the Turbulence, provided an important lesson around self-motivation and resiliency.
- BOEING |
Our heartfelt THANK YOU to Amelia. She has surpassed our expectations. We keep hearing from our associates and sponsors how great the keynote address was today! And how tears were shed here and there.
- The Plexus Groupe |
Amelia really captured the theme of our event and made a meaningful connection with our audience. Days later, her presentation is still a conversation topic - and for good reason. Hers is an amazing story, and it was exceptionally told. Amelia - thanks for inspiring us to dare mighty things.
- United Healthcare Provider Operations |
