Jeff Odie Espenship

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Lead with Excellence

Maintaining a high level of performance means paying attention to the little things. Jeff “Odie” Espenship, founder of Target Leadership, personally knows the impact when leadership fails to execute safety fundamentals. By sharing his lessons learned as a United States Air Force fighter pilot, an air show performer, and an international airline pilot, his message in human behaviors has become one of the most sought after by companies worldwide. Odie gives an interactive, entertaining, yet powerful message on getting back to basics in life and leadership. It’s the little things that can take an organization from the cellar to stellar. Odie discusses setting high expectations, speaking up, listening to what is NOT being said, overcoming complacency (the silent killer), never assuming, and communicating to understanding, to achieve new heights in life and leadership.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize any potentially dangerous behaviors/ shortcuts in your organization that team members may have adopted as “the way it’s done” vs. the “way it should be done.”

2. Identify ways that people can be made to feel comfortable coming forward to speak openly and freely about what is really going on in order to overcome a “culture of blame.”

However, it is the “The Little Things” that cause failures in the cockpit and on the job!  

The keynote is customized, multi-media “Edu-taining” presentations that will motivate and encourage your team to embrace the leadership, culture, safety initiatives that your company has in place for them!  We use our stories and experience in order to relate our lessons learned directly to your team in the audience.  We refer to each of them as “fighter pilots”.  They are hard working, highly skilled, well trained, get-it-done people who know how to operate with precision.  Many of them may work in high risk and often dangerous work industries such as Chemical, Construction, Petroleum, Utility, Nuclear, Manufacturing, or aviation.  The operators, mechanics, technicians, welders, engineers, chemist, nurses, and doctors of these industries are just like a fighter pilots!

The keynote begins by reflecting inward.  Jeff “Odie” Espenship gives a riveting account on losing his brother and a good friend in a tragic aviation accident.  The leadership lessons learned clearly shows how our work behaviors influence those around us.

We will focus on awareness and leadership at all levels Setting Expectations and Monitoring Performance.  Leadership creates and maintains the culture of the workplace, and the workers work within the norms of that culture. Leadership must set expectations high and then monitor the performance of those expectations.  Expectations will simply come as a byproduct of operational excellence, and operational excellence will come as a byproduct of superb, value based leadership.

Espenship’s message inspires us to think and strive to improve our behavior and actions, by appreciating who you are as a leader.   The concept of speed-rush-baseline will hit home with all levels of leadership.