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NSU’s Huizenga School to Welcome the Director of Mission Operations – NASA Space Center, Jan. 28
Paul Hill
NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship will host Paul S. Hill, director of Mission Operations – NASA Space Center on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 10:30 am. The presentation will be held in the Carl DeSantis Building, Huizenga Sales Institute.
A key to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mission control legacy of brilliant performance is a particular brand of leadership. Echoes of it can be heard at all levels of management, and most of the mission control organization’s management practices are effected by the very deliberate leadership culture that has evolved from this work.
This talk will describe the basic values of that particular brand of mission control leadership. The intent is to convey the direct connection between those leadership values and managing from the highly complex and technical, immediate risks in mission control to the less immediate but just as threatening enterprise level risks outside of that room.
Paul S. Hill is the Johnson Space Center Director of Mission Operations, responsible for all aspects of manned spaceflight mission planning, flight techniques, flight controller and crew training, simulators and mission control. Hill also served as a Space Shuttle and International Space Station Flight Director, leading the flight control team in flight preparation and execution from mission control. He supported 24 missions as a Flight Director with his final as the Lead Shuttle Flight Director for the return-to-flight on STS-114. He has managed a $650 million, 3,000-person enterprise, and while doing so, he led activities that cut mission control’s fixed costs in half while increasing capability. In addition to space flight and business management, Hill leads efforts to continuously improve mission control leadership development and cultural stewardship.
To attend the presentation, RSVP to Marie Ang at ma1724@nova.edu.