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Ellen Ochoa (NASA) - Leadership Lessons from Space

Resilience
Having a common purpose and objective is mission-critical to any team.
Duration
50:27
Part of Series
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Season

27

Episode

6

Ellen Ochoa is the first Hispanic woman astronaut to go into space, serving on four space shuttle missions. She served from 2013 to 2018 as the first Hispanic director and the second female director of Johnson Space Center. She earned her MS in electrical engineering and her PhD in electrical engineering with a focus in optical information processing from Stanford. In this conversation with Adjunct Lecturer Emily Ma, Ochoa shares insights she learned in space and on Earth about exploration, resilience, purpose, and teamwork.

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