Experience to Lead is proud to deliver the Apollo Leadership Experience in association with The Conference Board. 
Achieving the Impossible
Forget learning about leadership development sitting in a classroom, looking at PowerPoints and flipcharts. Experience undeniable leadership at the Apollo Experience.
You’ll be immersed in the stories of the men and women of NASA who built the country’s space program from the ground up. Through storytelling and hands-on training, you’ll glean leadership lessons that will impact your career.
The Apollo Experience is held at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Contact us to discuss customizing an Apollo Experience for your team.
Key Leadership Themes
Nurture Your Vision
- Build “successful failure” tolerance
- Avoid group think
- Manage innovation risk
Build Adaptive Leadership
- Learn from other leaders
- Influence colleagues to take action
- Merge and integrate cultures
Lead Through Setbacks
- Know when to step up or step back
- Reinforce team alignment
- Manage leadership strengths & gaps
Who Typically Attends?
Application is not limited to those within technical roles. Groups typically include executive and other leadership teams and high potential cohorts. Attendees range from CEOs, Vice Presidents, Directors, to managers of managers. Those interested in creating the right culture and achieving “moonshot” goals will experience particular application. Contact us to discuss if Apollo has application for you!
John Kolmer
Global Leadership Development Leader Dow Chemical
“The Apollo Leadership Experience is one of the best (if not the best) course I have been to. Experience to Lead selected excellent materials, provided great examples, and put together an experience that could translate key learnings from the NASA Apollo days to our current business needs. The tours of the Rocket Park, the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, and Mission Control will be something I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Apollo Leadership Lesssons
You may not go to the moon, but Dick Richardson’s book Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives will help you apply NASA’s leadership lessons to your company’s mission. Gain valuable insights from the real people behind Apollo that faced real opportunities and challenges.
Must Reads on Apollo
How to Build a Culture of Innovation
To build a culture of innovation in your business, you have to allow failure in your processes. SpaceX, the aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company behind the recent, historic return of human spaceflight to [...]
Crisis Management Lessons from Apollo 13
A crisis can hit at any time, and a leader’s role is to be agile and successfully lead the organization. In the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis, we pause to mark the 50th anniversary [...]
How Adaptive Leadership Built a Giant Rocket – And Will Help You Meet Your Giant Goals, Too
Shaping the Future by Learning from the Past The engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center have a tough job – to build the biggest rocket in the world. However, it’s not only a technical [...]
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