Karen’s passion for aviation started at a very young age when her father sat her in the cockpit of a huge aerobatic biplane when she was a tiny girl. The airplane never left the ground; however, she couldn’t wait to go back to the airport.
When she was 6 years old, her father bought their four-passenger family plane and immediately started teaching Karen about airplanes and flying. By the time she was 14, she was able to fly an airplane without much assistance. She soloed their airplane on her 16th birthday.
As with any achievement, there were challenges, fears, and mental roadblocks along the way, but Karen’s passion for flying and desire to succeed gave her the tenacity to push her mental boundaries and reach goals.
Inspired by her father who won the Sportsman National Aerobatic Championship in 1975, Karen was able to obtain her ultimate goal and achieved the same title in 1994. Her father rebuilt the airplane and finished it in 1991. He passed away three months later and willed the airplane to Karen. He never saw her fly the plane and he never saw her fly aerobatics but, the passion he instilled in his daughter, keeps her motivated.
Though Karen’s passion was aviation, she also loves to garden and play golf. We all have things that make us tick!
What your team will learn:
• How to use what motivates them to tenaciously drive them towards success
• How training can conquer obstacles including fear
• How to create innovative solutions – Work the problem!
• How their passion doesn’t have to be extraordinary to others, only to them
• How Passion = Desire = Drive and spawns the tenacity to achieve both to personal and professional goals
