Possibility, Risk & Ambiguity
….with Christopher Huie, Virgin Galactic Astronaut 006 & Unity 25 Mission Specialist
Summer is a moment in the year—more than almost any other—when there is a clear opportunity to manage the balance between past and future. It’s a time when we redouble what’s working, and drop what isn’t. It's a time to set direction. A renewal. And with renewal comes a new sense of possibility. A possibility that the future will be better than the present. And in that, we can commit to the sheer fact that anything can happen.
And yet, we cannot get to breakthrough if we don’t allow ourselves to let go of expectations and fall squarely into the proverbial abyss.
Join Rimma Boshernitsan and astronaut and rocket-scientist Christopher Huie for a discussion on how the unpredictability of space missions can translate to deeply understanding your relationship to risk, the art of possibility, and the difference between uncertainty and ambiguity.
About Our Guests:
Christopher Huie, known to his teammates as “Chuie”, is an Aerospace Engineer and Senior Manager on Virgin Galactic’s Flight Sciences Engineering team. In the six years he has been with the company leading the External Loads Engineering discipline, Chuie’s thoughtful approach to both his work and to those he works with has set him apart as a leader at Galactic.
The University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering graduate is intimately familiar with VSS Unity and VMS Eve having worked on nearly every component of the spaceship’s and mothership’s designs, helping to ensure both structural integrity and mission success. He is the co-founder of and spokesperson for Virgin Galactic’s Black Leadership in Aerospace Scholarship and Training (BLAST) Program, mentoring college students with the aim of increasing the number of Black leaders in the aerospace industry. Chuie, who hails from Florida, is the son of Jamaican immigrants and became only the 19th Black astronaut in the world.
Rimma is the CEO of DIALOGUE, an interdisciplinary strategic advisory and think tank that helps leaders and companies find the shortest, clearest path to their most ambitious goals.
Over her 20-year career, she has served as a strategic advisor and thought partner to CEOs of emerging businesses and Fortune 500 organizations (including Google, Apple, Levi’s, Kaiser Permanente, Tata) focusing on catalyzing cross-sector, human connected transformation and intelligent innovation. Her writing has appeared in Fast Company, TechCrunch, Inc and Forbes. She is also an advisor to Stanford’s Women in Design Program.
Rimma began her career at Deloitte Consulting’s Human Capital practice, where she focused on M&A and large-scale transformation, before providing in-house industry advisory in fields including healthcare, consumer business, and telecommunications.