Topics:
Creativity
Management
Space Exploration
Team Building

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Donna Shirley, recently retired as Director of the Science Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington, and currently President of Managing Creativity, is a well-known manager, educator, speaker, consultant and trainer on the management of creative teams. She retired in August 1998 as Manager of the Mars Exploration Program after a 32-year career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Prior to becoming manager of the Mars Exploration Program, Ms. Shirley managed the team that built Sojourner, the Microrover, which was landed by the highly successful Mars Pathfinder project on the surface of Mars on July 4, 1997. In 2003 she retired from the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering where she was Assistant Dean and an instructor of Aerospace Mechanical Engineering. Ms. Shirley has an MS in Aerospace Engineering plus over forty years experience in engineering of aerospace and civil systems, including thirty years in management. She has numerous technical and management awards including four honorary Doctorates. She is the author of Managing Martians, published in 1998 and 1999, and Managing Creativity, available at her web site. She has one daughter who is in graduate school.

Managing Creativity:

The use of models and other techniques for stimulating group creativity. Communication techniques for creative teams. Building and leading creative teams. Exploitation of diversity for effective creative teams. Planning and managing creative enterprises. Creating within constraints. Daring to be creative - overcoming obstacles to your personal creativity. Career Planning - Discovering and fulfilling your passion.

Space Exploration:

The building of a Mars Rover. The Mars Millenium Project - a National Education Project of the White House Millenium Council The Mars Exploration Program. Mars in Fact and Fiction. Goals and Strategies for Human Exploration of the Solar System. The History of Robotic Space Exploration.

Other:

Employer Sponsored Child Care - Key to the Future. Bending the Glass Ceiling. The Public Policy Process: Why Policies Succeed and Fail.