Keynote Speeches
Shawna Pandya shares some of her insights on how she LevelsUp! based on her experiences in operational, extreme and dynamic environments. For example, she needed to tackle burn out, when you’re fresh off 320 hours of emergency room call…!
Key takeaways to help you LevelUp:
- Making things better for yourself, even with the little things.
- Surrounding yourself with good people who will tell you when you are about to do something unreasonable.
- Recognizing your choice or decision to be in a particular situation.
Disruption is the new normal. Unpredictable situations have forced organizations to rapidly adapt to new realities. Teams are now faced with new challenges around productivity, technological capabilities, communications, crisis management, mental health and more.
What can critical situations and extreme environments teach us about adaptability in times of uncertainty? What can we learn from our successes and our failures in this journey?
From simulated space missions underwater, to commanding a simulated Mars mission, to her work as a physician during COVID, Dr. Pandya draws on a unique mix of experiences to show audiences how to thrive in times of uncertainty. She shares key skills when it comes to cultivating resilience, setting goals, and optimizing performance – as an individual, and as a team.
Audiences will embark upon a riveting online journey into the upsides of isolation, and how these lessons will help us stay productive during extreme situations. Shawna Pandya helps audiences go from isolated to inspired, and walk away with insights that they can apply to their daily operations.
Key takeaways from this presentation include:
- Optimizing success in high-pressure environments
- Leadership and teamwork techniques to apply to tough situations
- Bouncing back from failure
- Cultivating resilience
Engineering Tomorrow: Shawna Pandya teaches innovation mindsets and exponential thinking.
In an era of accelerating technological change, the most valuable skills aren’t necessarily technical – they’re human. Dr. Shawna Pandya teaches innovation mindsets and exponential thinking frameworks that help leaders, healthcare professionals, and students navigate uncertainty, challenge assumptions, and shape what comes next.
Drawing on her background as a physician, aerospace medicine researcher, and XPRIZE finalist, Shawna brings credibility and lived experience to the question of how we prepare for a future we can’t yet fully see. Her Future Forecasting approach is taught as part of the University program “Technology and the Future of Medicine” and translates equally well to corporate leadership, healthcare, and association audiences.
The Framework
Shawna guides audiences through four interconnected lenses:
- Emerging Trends — What technologies are shaping this era, and how are they evolving over time?
- Your Role — Where does your passion, expertise, and experience intersect with what’s coming?
- Unconstrained Thinking — What would you build if today’s limitations didn’t exist?
- Intersecting Technologies — Where do parallel innovations collide? (AI and social media, AI and virtual reality — and what emerges at those intersections?)
Throughout, Shawna contextualizes innovation within the current socio-political and geopolitical landscape — because understanding adoption, failure, success, and unintended consequences is just as important as imagining what’s possible.
The lasting takeaway: critical thinking, creativity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and design thinking are the core competencies that will define careers in any field — regardless of which technologies emerge.
We still have a long way to go when it comes to equality. In this talk, Dr. Pandya shares her lessons from the medicine, technology and the space sectors, and shares insights on what it takes to build a diverse, equitable team that is designed to perform – and excel.
Being a leader doesn’t mean being at the head of the pack barking out orders. It means stepping back and seeing how things play out and really knowing your team inside out. Because reaching goals includes enlisting others in a variety of roles, in addition to focus, organization, decision-making ability and commitment.
From flying cars to 3D printers, the world is a fascinating place, and there is a role for everything and everyone who wants to contribute! In this talk, Dr. Pandya shares her experiences in the STEM fields, from space to medicine to technology, including her time at the International Space University, training as a physician in neurosurgery and general practice, to founding a company based on a challenge to positively impact 1 billion people in 10 years using accelerating technologies, and training as a citizen-scientist astronaut. She delves into the programs and platforms that helped her get to where she is today, sharing insights and lessons learned along the way.
Drawing from her experiences in medicine, space, Silicon Valley and martial arts, Dr. Pandya explores emotional intelligence as the mortar between the bricks; a key facet of nuanced leadership, crucial for building and leading effective teams and creating successful outcomes.
The world we live in is changing at an exponential pace. Drawing off her experiences as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and from her time at Singularity University, Dr. Pandya explores emerging trends and technologies, offering up tools and exercises fostering innovation, disruption, and ‘big-picture’ thinking.
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Disruption is the new normal. Unpredictable situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic have forced organizations to rapidly adapt to new realities. Teams are now faced with new challenges around productivity, technological capabilities, communications, crisis management, mental health and more.
What can critical situations and extreme environments teach us about resilience in times of uncertainty?
A speaker who has experienced real life on fake mars would know. Dr. Shawna Pandya has a growing resume in space research and bioastronautics. From simulated space missions underwater to commanding a simulated Mars mission to her work as a physician, Dr. Pandya draws on a unique mix of experiences to show audiences how to thrive in times of uncertainty. Audiences will embark upon a riveting online journey into the upsides of isolation, and how these lessons will help us stay resilient and productive during extreme situations. Audiences will go from isolated to inspired, and walk away with insights they can apply to their daily operations towards their own resilience and productivity.
Key Takeaways
- Leadership and teamwork techniques to use in suboptimal times.
- How to build psychological resilience and coping skills.
- Innovative approaches to optimize productivity and operations in times of uncertainty.
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