Carey Lohrenz

Lessons in Partnership: The Leading Edge to Optimizing Relationships

Just like in aviation, in a rapidly changing global environment Speed is Life. Collaboration is critical to business success and Managing Successful Strategic Partnerships is crucial. Competitive advantage is gained when your organization can optimize partnerships and strategic alliances. Deeper relationships with partners can be the key to long term success and growth. In this inspiring and engaging keynote, Carey shares what it takes to be on the ‘Leading Edge’. Those things that helped her succeed in one of the most extreme environments on earth can help elevate your team, gain advantage and uncover opportunities.

Remaining Relevant

In a challenging economic environment, remaining relevant to your customers and within your organization is critical to your survival. Those who fail to deliver value to their consumers, shareholders, clients and teammates become extinct. Could that happen to you? In aviation, complacency kills. Same is true in business: if you become complacent and fail to ignore the warning signs (shifts in culture, trends, global demands, budget restrictions), you could be facing extinction. In this energizing and empowering keynote Carey shares the fundamentals that helped her win in the cockpit at Mach 2, and can help your team win in business; by learning the importance of remaining relevant, how to accelerate performance, how to stay agile and adaptable, and how high performing teams become excellent.

Striking A Balance

A successful career, a happy family, and a balanced personal life leave little time for many people to nurture their dreams. As a former Naval Aviator and corporate executive, and as a busy mother of four, Carey “Vixen” Lohrenz knows first-hand the challenges of navigating the many demands of daily work-life balance. In this riveting inspirational program, Carey will inspire you to be the catalyst and look beyond your circumstances. Just as pilots do a “systems check” before takeoff, Carey will walk you through a Pre-Flight Check on your journey towards success.

• Belief in Yourself and Your Abilities: To be successful and ultimately take charge of your life, overcoming lack of self-belief is one of the biggest hurdles you need to overcome.
• A Firm Commitment: Be unwavering and purposeful in your actions.
• Clarity of Purpose: A clear picture of precisely what you want to achieve
• Make a Plan to Stay Focused: Keep life’s distractions and interruptions at bay by creating your plan – and sticking to it.

This highly popular program will inspire and energize, while providing work-life balance tools to help audience members regain control of their personal and professional lives.  

High Risk Into High Reward: Succeeding in High Pressure Environments

Carey Lohrenz knows what it takes to win in one of the highest pressure environments imaginable, where inconsistent execution can generate catastrophic results. When it comes to managing risk, carrier aviators have it down to a science. With zero tolerance for error, they rely on every crew member, regardless of rank, to work as a team. The key to establishing a culture of innovation is the ability to focus on what matters during times of change, to adapt and thrive. In this keynote, your attendees will learn how apply the standards of carrier aviation with tactical, high impact takeaways and next steps that they can apply immediately in their business.

• Simple, rigorous checklists
• A culture that doesn’t tolerate complacency
• Sound critical decision making skills
• Clear communication for transformation
• A collaborative model to unlock potential  

Lessons in Leadership: The 4 Fundamentals to Help you Win in Business & Life

Lessons in Leadership: The 4 Fundamentals to Help you Win in Business & Life

As the first female F-14 Fighter Pilot in the U.S.Navy, Carey Lohrenz knows what it takes to win in one of the highest pressure, extreme environments imaginable. In 1994, when Carey “Vixen” Lohrenz was deployed to the USS Abraham Lincoln, there were fewer than 5 female aviators on a ship of 5000 male crew members. Facing uncharted waters in an intensely male-dominated environment, Lohrenz learned vital lessons in leadership that followed her into the corporate world. The most successful leaders share a common foundation of principles used from the flight deck to the front office. The greatest leaders from all corners of the world know how to inspire, use good judgment, take initiative and make powerful decisions – with integrity. In this program, Carey shares the fundamentals that helped her win in the cockpit at Mach 2, and can help your team win in business:

• Be a Catalyst: Make change happen by focusing on what matters most
• Be Tenacious: Overcome your fear of failure
• Be Committed to Excellence: Prepare, Perform and Prevail to accomplish seemingly impossible missions
• every day
• Be Resilient: Turn adversity into success  

Patient Safety: 6 Risk Planning Strategies for Operational Excellence

Carey Lohrenz is a dynamic healthcare speaker whose passion for improving patient and staff satisfaction in the fast-paced field of healthcare brings results. With her authentic, highly motivational personality, she is in demand as a patient safety keynote speaker nationwide. Not only is she sought after by medical and pharmaceutical professionals for her risk management solutions, but small businesses and large corporations appreciate her “flight plan” for success. She will challenge, inform, and inspire your employees to higher levels of performance and operational excellence in high-risk and sometimes dangerous environments. Carey shares her leadership risk planning strategies and training to:

• Improve leadership, communication, and teamwork among your physicians, nurses, staff and patients
• Enhance the patient experience
• Demonstrate simple root cause analysis that will highlight “what” is right, versus “who” is right
• Create a positive safety culture
• Reduce human error and the chance of a mishap
• Encourage a commitment to safety from all of your healthcare providers, while maintaining clinical quality

These tools will allow your team to survive and succeed, with superior results consistently, just as Carey did in the  demanding world of fighter aviation.