KEYNOTE SPEAKER | FORMER NASA PROPULSION ENGINEER
Turn Quiet Self-Doubt Into Real Performance.
Maureen equips your best people to execute decisively in the high-stakes moments when doubt says “don’t.”
Signature Keynotes
Move the Room, and the Needle.
Each keynote is substantive, story-driven, and grounded in real strategy, wrapped in humor and Maureen’s unforgettable NASA stories.
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The Propulsion Principle
High Performance Strategies for Executing Under Pressure and Beyond Doubt
Your most capable people are secretly convinced they’re frauds. It’s impostor syndrome. Others see them as accomplished, but their inside voice insists, “they think I’m smarter than I really am.” Maureen lived it for years at NASA, and hands your audience a performance protocol to allow them to choose a difference response to their persistent (and secret) self doubt.
- Identify the true villian. (Spoiler alert: It's not simply impostor syndrome!)
- Flip their inner script from pitiful to powerful, in three quick and simple steps
- Escape the "compare and despair" trap around their peers
- Match their confidence to their competence, and unleash their influence
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Leadership is NOT Rocket Science
Turn your superstars into supernovas.
Your high performers have a problem you’d never guess. They look secure, but something is quietly draining their creativity and capping their output. The #1 hidden brake on epic performance is impostor syndrome, and it’s costing you stalled decisions, “quiet quitting,” and the best ideas going unsaid. This isn’t a pep talk. It’s a thought-process overhaul for the people who lead people who are secretly struggling with self-doubt.
- Read impostor syndrome in their people: what they see vs. what the team feels
- Turn their own self-doubt into a leadership advantage
- Spot the ways culture amplifies impostor syndrome, and fix them
- Ease it one honest conversation at a time
Why Organizations Book Maureen
A Rocket Scientist Who's Lived It.
Maureen spent 14 years at NASA’s Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, where she became the first woman and youngest Facility Manager of the Propulsion Systems Laboratory.
She battled impostor syndrome through much of her career, which is exactly why she can lead your people through it. She spent years studying and speaking about impostor syndrome and high-performance strategies. Her protocol, The Propulsion Principle™, has been presented to thousands of people, with outstanding results and reviews.
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From STEM teams to executive rooms, Maureen matches your people’s confidence to their competence with science, story, and a lot of humor, and sends them back to work performing at a higher level.