Business consultant
Space is a continuously changing environment that doesn't play by Earth rules. Similarly, people and businesses facing continuing change also operate in previously unknown environments where new ways of thinking and working must be established.
Having orbited 3,360 million miles around the Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery, Roberta Bondar knows first hand the challenges of extreme change and disorientation.
Today, as she travels the world, she translates those challenges into powerful insights that guide organizations and senior leaders toward higher level thinking and innovative solutions.
In surroundings that don't comply with our beliefs, how do we move forward? Why do some people chart their own course and others remain in reactive mode?
As a respected business consultant, Dr. Bondar makes exciting connections between how our brains adapt in space to how we can adapt to continuously-changing environments here on Earth. Dr. Bondar shares her findings on the science of coping with change, along with specific actions that can help organizations deal with the challenges of disorientation in today's chaotic corporate world.
Dr. Bondar's energy and passion for navigating uncharted territory will inspire your attendees to thrive in any situation. She delivers tools and strategies that can be implemented immediately for effective results, customizing her presentation to suit your themes, audience and objectives.
BONDAR FAST FACTS
For almost 20 years, Dr. Roberta Bondar has been on the scientific forefront in how the brain adapts to unfamiliar environments.
Her achievements include:
• World's first astronaut-neurologist
• On the space shuttle Discovery mission STS 42 in 1992, Dr. Bondar conducted scientific experiments in the First International Microgravity Laboratory
• For more than a decade at NASA Dr. Bondar headed an international space medicine research team, continuing to find new connections between astronauts recovering from floating in space and neurological illnesses here on Earth (e.g. stroke and Parkinson's disease).
• Techniques developed br Dr. Bondar's research team have been used in clinical studies at BI Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and at the University of New Mexico
• Currently, Dr. Bondar is in her second term as Chancellor of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.