Speaker - Test Pilot - Teacher - Manager - Consultant
Leadership - Safety
TESTIMONIALS
• "Rogers' recommended leadership principles (e.g. "People First") have been easy to convert to practical use - I have used this with great effect in several projects; the latest a highly successful Eurofighter flight evaluation completed within time with NO time slip over a one year plan - AND providing even more capabilities than originally planned.
Debating ideas with Rogers has definitely been the most gratifying working experience I have had. His experience not only covers a good part of modern aviation history, but also includes an enormous knowledge about practical and pragmatic application of project leadership principles.
I am totally certain that dozens of "Rogers" were walking around at Kelly Johnson’s Skunk Works in the 50's and 60's when everything was possible."
Lars Illum Jørgensen
Program Manager
Swiss Flight & Ground Evaluation
EADS, Manching, Germany
lars.joergensen@eads.com
• "The long experience of Rogers Smith has been of tremendous value for us at Saab when we established a new integrated test team for the Gripen Demonstrator. His view on flight safety and team management gave the team a real boost before starting the test team training in preparation of the first flight and the following test campaign.
Saab Flight test and verification has a long and profound relation with Rogers Smith and we value his advise and long experience which has helped us overcome some true challenges over the years of cooperation.
In the world of flight test, team management is key for a positive result. Rogers Smith’s long personal exposure to flight test in combination with his professionalism has been an example for us when approaching new challenges within different test programs at Saab.
We would encourage anyone who is in the progress of setting up a new program to utilize his experience and make use of his different areas of knowledge as a good example of the management approach needed in today’s test environment."
Ola Rignell
Director/ Experimental Test Pilot
Flight Test and Verification
Saab Aerosystems
Sweden
ola.rignell@saabgroup.com
• "Rogers Smith has a database of experience matched by few, if any, in the aviation world. Smith has the drive of a test pilot hidden behind the mind of an engineer. His experience comes from a lifetime of flying and fighting with military and civilian frontline fighter and exotic flight test prototypes in America, Canada, and Europe. Aviation audiences and others will be mesmerized by the intimate details as Smith relates stories of successes, failures and lessons learned from some of the most significant flight test programs in 20th century all in the calm, deliberative, and determined to succeed, voice of a test pilot."
Doug Rozendaal
Aviation Writer
Chairman, Stand-Eval & Flight Safety, Commemorative Air Force and
Safety Advisor for National Warbirds Association
dougr@petroblend.com
• "Rogers Smith, as no other, is able to enthusiastically bring a message that is urgently needed today in the interest of progress, and not only in aerospace."
Prof.dr.ir. J.M. Hoekstra
Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Delft University of Technology
J.M.Hoekstra@tudelft.nl