Ron Garan

Lead Without Limits: Ignite purpose, potential, & progress through a new perspective of leadership

Former NASA astronaut, serial entrepreneur, humanitarian, and highly decorated combat fighter pilot Ron Garan helps organizations discover how an elevated view of leadership can reshape the future of their business through stories and lessons from space, combat, and the boardroom.

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Ron Garan
178 days in space, 71+ million miles, 2,842 orbits around Earth

Value Proposition

Ron Garan delivers actionable insights and frameworks that transform how organizations approach Orbital Perspective.

Unlock Innovation

Discover how greater diversity of perspectives can lead to breakthrough innovation and creativity within your organization, helping you navigate uncertainty and ambiguity.

Team Performance

Learn how to leverage collaboration for exponential team performance, drawing from lessons learned building the International Space Station with 15 different nations.

Sustainable Practice

Create sustainable business practices that are financially self-sufficient and have a positive impact on your bottom line, society, and our planet.

Transformational Impact

Ron Garan's presentations catalyze meaningful change in how organizations and their people approach key challenges.

Narrow Perspective
Orbital Perspective

Leaders gain a broader perspective that helps them see the interconnectedness of challenges and opportunities, enabling better decision-making and innovative problem-solving.

Siloed Operations
Profound Collaboration

Organizations break down barriers between departments and external partners, creating seamless collaboration that drives performance beyond what was previously thought possible.

Short-Term Focus
Long-Term Thinking

Teams develop a multigenerational view of investment and progress, creating strategies that balance immediate needs with sustainable long-term growth and impact.

Self-Centered Approach
Planetary Consciousness

Companies embrace the basic fact of our interrelated structure and develop business models that serve society while creating prosperity and harmony with our planet's biosphere.

What Leaders Are Saying

Organizations across industries have experienced meaningful transformation from Ron Garan's insights.

I had no idea how much impact Ron's keynote would have in getting traditionally-minded people to turn ideas into action.

Emilie Sydney-Smith

Emilie Sydney-Smith

Chief Transformation Officer, Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc.

Popular Speaking Topics

  • The Orbital Perspective: Leading in an Interdependent World

    Discover how seeing our world from the "orbital perspective" can help leaders navigate uncertainty, break down silos, and create innovative solutions to complex challenges.

  • Building Profound Collaboration: Lessons from the International Space Station

    Learn how 15 different nations set aside their differences to build the most complex structure ever created, and how these lessons can transform collaboration in your organization.

  • Sustainable Business: Prosperity in Harmony with People and Planet

    Explore how businesses can create models that serve society first and foremost, resulting in financial sustainability while having a positive impact on society and our planet.

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About Ron Garan

Ron Garan is a former NASA astronaut who spent 178 days in space and traveled over 71 million miles during 2,842 orbits of our planet. During his time in space, Ron conducted four spacewalks in support of the construction and maintenance of the International Space Station.

Prior to his space journeys, he lived and conducted research on the bottom of the ocean in the world's only undersea research laboratory, Aquarius. A former test pilot and graduate of the US Naval Test Pilot School, Ron taught hundreds of elite fighter pilots as a flight instructor at the prestigious USAF Fighter Weapons School, the Air Force version of Top Gun.

Ron is the author of the critically acclaimed books "The Orbital Perspective," "Floating in Darkness," and the children's book "Railroad to the Moon." He is celebrated not just for his exploration in space but also for his humanitarian contributions and extensive work in sustainable development around the world.

Ron currently serves as CEO of ispace technologies U.S., inc, a global lunar resource development company specializing in designing, building, and operating lunar landers.

NASA Astronaut

178 days in space, 4 spacewalks

Fighter Pilot & Test Pilot

USAF Fighter Weapons School Instructor

Acclaimed Author

"The Orbital Perspective", "Floating in Darkness"

CEO

ispace technologies U.S., inc

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