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"NATURAL BORN PILOT" LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - DECEMBER 2020 SPEECHES
Natural Born Pilots, inspired by the Chuck Yeager quote, “There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot,” is FSSA’s leadership development program designed to strengthen relationships, enhance communication, develop leadership and networking skills, create an internal pipeline of leaders, build morale, and inspire our agency’s top talent. Each year, this program brings together a handful of our FSSA colleagues to learn from each other and other inspiring Indiana leaders. This year’s VIRTUAL journey is ending and, as with the three previous cohorts of “pilots,” it is being punctuated with each of them delivering short, idea-focused, thought-provoking talks about various topics – as inspired by the TEDx series of local events.
We invite you to view Dr. Sullivan’s introduction and the 17 inspiring speeches by this year’s “pilots” below or click here to play all.
- Introduction – Dr. Jennifer Sullivan
- 2020, we are all a lot smarter than we were six months ago - Lisa Davis
- Control versus leadership - Kristin Gibson
- Demonstrate the willingness and ability to embrace change and encourage growth - Ima Abbott
- Don't let your past dictate your present - Makeeba Curry
- Eager experimenter - Brooke Heisler
- Elevate your game to the next level - Kizzy Hardiman
- How to cross a creek in 3 easy steps - Rheonna Snedigar
- How you see yourself as others see you - Traci Camden
- Make yourself comfortable in uncomfortable situations - Damien Jones
- My daughter Emilia - Sarah Guest
- My love affair with state parks - Erica Denton
- My name is not dammit - Carrie Karczewski
- Never let plans become so important that unforeseen adventure brings bitterness - Ann Sattley
- Power of organizational compassion - Angie Chaffee
- Trap, neuter, return - Brandy Engleking
- Using stories to spark system change - Darcy Tower
- We cannot do for ourselves as effectively as we want unless we are first able to take care of ourselves - Ian Ragains