Keynote speaker (Website: AstronautSteveSmith.com): Sharing experiences and insights on meeting audacious goals despite setbacks, decision making in complex/dynamic situations, success in international business, and leadership. Delivered over 700 speeches to diverse corporate, public, international, athletic, and school audiences. Astronaut: Veteran of 4 NASA spaceflight missions, logging 16 million miles in space. Performed 7 space walks involving 49+ hours to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope and to install a module on the Space Station. 1st member of his Astronaut class to receive a flight assignment. 1st Astronaut to perform 5 spacewalks on Hubble. His spacewalk experience placed him 2nd on the all-time USA and 3rd on the all-time World lists at the end of his flying career. Served as the Deputy Chief Astronaut and supervised the Astronaut Corps leadership group of 10 veteran Astronauts and managed the daily operations of the 125-member Astronaut Corps and 80 support personnel. Global business executive: Served for a decade as NASA's senior management Space Station liaison and Diplomat to the European Space Agency in Paris and Amsterdam. Conducted business negotiation with the Russian space agency. Served as the Associate Director for Space Station at NASA Ames in Silicon Valley where the portfolio included small deployable satellites, robotic satellites for experiments in the crew cabin, autonomous systems software, and an extensive array of biology-centered payloads. Stanford MBA. National Level Athlete: Seven-time All-American in swimming and water polo. Two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Champion at Stanford in water polo. Captain of the 1980 NCAA Championship team.