Discover critical strategies for building high-reliability, high-performance teams in mission-critical operations. This masterclass, led by NASA Flight Director Ed Van Cise, provides a unique exploration of leadership principles developed through decades of international space station management.

• Operations philosophies for balancing safety and mission success.
• How anticipating potential failures prevents catastrophic outcomes.
• High reliability and high performing organisations.
• Why purposeful focus on people and culture is important.
• How to empower leadership at all levels.
• Focusing on what could go wrong helps ensure things go right.

Drawing from real-world NASA experiences, Ed offers Maintenance and Reliability leaders actionable strategies for creating resilient, adaptive organisational cultures.

Ed Van Cise has worked in human spaceflight operations with the International Space Station since 1998. His experiences include not only direct command and control of the space station but also instruction of astronauts and flight controllers, as well as management of groups that perform that work. In 2009, Ed was selected as the 78th NASA Flight Director and took on the call sign “Carbon Flight.”