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SUMMARY:Flight Lessons: Navigating Through Life’s Turbulence and Learning
  to Fly High from IABC Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:Ever wonder what it feels like to fly? Learning to “fly” in
  any career or endeavor requires many hours of hard work and diligence –
  and sometimes\, you need to change your flight plan in midair.\n\nThrough
  Captain Barbara Bell’s experience as one of the first women to graduate
  from the U.S. Naval Academy\, she learned how leadership and persistence 
 are built one step at a time\, and her experiences – the good\, the bad\
 , and the ugly – helped her survive and thrive. In our April program\, s
 he’ll share some of those experiences and how we\, as communicators can 
 learn to fly high too. She’ll also share insights from her just-released
  book Flight Lessons: Navigating Through Life's Turbulence And Learning To
  Fly High.\n\nPart memoir\, part call-to-action\, the book is her way of p
 assing along that knowledge to anyone who’s charting a course for succes
 s. In this engaging presentation\, you’ll discover how to:\n\n 	grit it 
 out\n 	navigate turbulence\n 	earn your “wings” … and soar!\n\nAbout
  the speaker\nBarbara-Bell-500px.jpegCaptain Barbara Bell\, U.S. Navy (ret
 .) is an inspiring speaker\, author and leader who empowers women\, men\, 
 and teens\, encouraging and teaching them to fly high in their personal an
 d professional lives.\n\nGrowing up in small-town Michigan\, Barbara Bell\
 , Ed.D.\, Capt. U.S. Navy (ret)\, had her head in the clouds. “As a kid\
 , lying on the grass\, seeing planes go by\, I wasn’t thinking about bei
 ng a pilot\, because there was no context for that for women in the 1960s\
 ,” she remembers. “When I dreamed of flying\, I was always the airplan
 e.”\n\nAn accomplished student and athlete\, she received an appointment
  to the U.S. Naval Academy at a time when only six percent of the student 
 body was female. (“While the law said we could be there\, most of our ex
 perience said we could not\,” Bell explains.) After becoming one of Anna
 polis’ first woman graduates\, she continued on to a distinguished caree
 r as an aviator and Naval Flight Test Officer\, during which she flew more
  than 1\,600 hours in 35 different types of U.S. and Allied aircraft. In 1
 992\, she and fellow aviators went to Capitol Hill to successfully repeal 
 the combat exclusions laws\, opening up combat aircraft and ships to women
  in the services. She is happy to report that women now fly unrestricted i
 n the services.\n\nToday\, Bell draws upon the skills she developed throug
 hout her trailblazing years of service to help others find the courage to 
 test new and innovative ways of thinking and doing. “Leadership can be t
 aught\,” she says. “Who are we? What behaviors demonstrate our values?
  Those answers come from deep within.” Using those principles of values-
 based leadership\, she’s become known for her empathy\, as well as her a
 bility to ignite the spark people need to envision their dreams and chart 
 a path forward.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nQuestions? Contact communications@iabcphilad
 elphia.org
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