2024 Women's Leadership Forum
Dare to Be Different
February 7–9, 2024 | Birmingham, Alabama
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2024 Women's Leadership Forum Keynote Speaker

Learn to Love the Turbulence - Dare to be Different
February 8, 2024 | 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Session Description

Amelia Rose Earhart knows how to bring a bold dream to life – even when all the odds were stacked against her. In 2014, she followed in the footsteps of the American hero she was named after, Amelia Earhart, and flew a small plane (Pilatus PC-12NG) 28,000 nautical miles around the globe. To accomplish this, Amelia self-funded her instrument and commercial flight training, crafted a strategic business plan to design, fund, and market her around-the-world attempt, grew a large and passionate social following to spread the word, raised close to $2 million in partnerships with 28 corporations, and more.

In this motivational speech, Amelia not only inspires, but provides the practical guidance to create your own plan for success.

Learning Objectives

  1. How to identify a route toward your goal, identify your personal “fuel sources,” and unlock methods to navigate through and around the storms that may pop up along your path
  2. Why the use of checklists and procedures can free up working memory to allow for maximum focus, creativity, and innovation
  3. Ways to rely upon others in your “flight crew” to delegate tasks and increase confidence in the midst of change and challenge

About the Speaker


Amelia Rose Earhart

As a boundary-pushing around the world pilot, Amelia Rose Earhart knows exactly what it takes to venture into uncharted territory- with confidence.

With the odds stacked against her, Amelia not only trained to become a pilot, but to become the type of pilot who chose to honor the person she was named after, Amelia Mary Earhart, by piloting a single-engine airplane (Pilatus PC-12NG) 28,000 nautical miles around the globe. To accomplish this, Amelia developed a flight plan all her own. While reporting full-time as an on air, TV helicopter reporter, she completed private, instrument, and commercial pilot training, crafted an entrepreneurial and strategic business plan to design, fund, and market her around the world attempt, raised close to $2 million in partnerships with 28 corporations, founded and ran the Fly With Amelia Foundation (which sent numerous teenage girls to flight school), and more.

Today, Amelia Rose Earhart is a full-time speaker, podcast host, and artist who incorporates the lessons of her 2014 global flight into every aspect of her professional and personal life. Amelia is excited to share the remaining funds from the Fly With Amelia Foundation to another aviation charity helping to promote women in aviation and will be sharing exciting details soon. From the Air Force Thunderbirds, to the Reagan Library, to corporations like Capital One, Lockheed Martin and United Healthcare, Amelia’s list of clients who trust her message of agility continues to grow.

Amelia is currently submitting her manuscript, The Ups and the Downs of Turbulence, which she wrote with author Kristin Clark Taylor, during winter of 2020. Memorabilia from Amelia’s flight around the world can be found at her permanent display at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, CO.