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Dr. Joe MacInnis is a physician-scientist, author and deep-sea explorer. He has led thirty expeditions into the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans and written nine books about undersea exploration, including Underwater Man, Saving the Ocean, Titanic In A New Light and Breathing Underwater: The Quest to Live in the Sea. His work has earned him a number of distinctions, including his country’s highest honor, the Order of Canada.

In the 1960s, Dr. MacInnis was the medical director of the American Man-in-Sea program and worked on the U. S. Navy’s Sea Lab project. In the 1970s and 80s he led the teams that made the first scientific dives under the North Pole and discovered the world’s northernmost known shipwreck—HMS Breadalbane—under the ice of the Northwest Passage.

Dr. MacInnis was an advisor to the Titanic discovery team and co-leader of a $5-million expedition to film Titanic in the giant-screen Imax format. It was this expedition that inspired James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning movie. Dr. MacInnis is currently working with Cameron on a series of deep-sea documentary films.

He has written articles for Scientific American, National Geographic and Wired. His most recent book, published by National Geographic Books, is the companion volume to Cameron’s 3-D Imax film Aliens of the Deep.

Since 1985, Dr. MacInnis has made more than 500 presentations to Fortune 500 companies, including IBM, General Motors and Microsoft. In his speeches, he shares the values including courage, communication and teamwork that enhance performance under the ocean and in the corporate world.

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LEADERSHIP WHEN YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
In times of turbulent change, the best option is deep leadership.
Joe MacInnis is a medical doctor who studies leadership and teamwork in life-threatening environments from the deep ocean to outer space. He's led thirty expeditions under the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans including the first team of scientists to dive under the ice at the North Pole. His work has earned him many honors including the Order of Canada.

Dr. MacInnis has worked on science and engineering projects with the US Navy, the Canadian government, the Russian Academy of Sciences and NASA. He's currently studying the leadership and teamwork allowing astronauts to construct the International Space Station and sub pilots to navigate $25-million research subs to the ocean's deepest depths.

In his 55-minute presentation, he uses dramatic video clips to take you on a perilous journey two miles under the ocean and 200 miles in space—telling unforgettable stories about unique individuals who embody the spirit of 'deep leadership.'

Deep leadership's components include mental resilience, fierce ingenuity, code-red humor, group genius and resolute courage. The audience takes home a new understanding of leadership and a renewed commitment to apply it.

DEEP LEADERSHIP: INSIGHTS FROM OUTER SPACE AND THE ABYSSAL OCEAN
Joe MacInnis is a physician-scientist who studies human performance in lethal environments. He's led thirty expeditions under the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans including the first team of scientists to dive under the North Pole. He's worked on projects with the United States Navy, the Canadian government, the Russian Academy of Sciences and NASA. His work has earned him a number of distinctions including the Order of Canada.

In his 45-minute presentation Dr. MacInnis uses dramatic video clips to take you on a perilous journey 4 km. under the ocean and 400 km. in space. Along the way you meet astronauts and marine scientists operating at the luminous intersection of strategic imagination, mental resilience and resolute courage. Filled with practical information, his presentation is an urgent call to develop multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled and humanist leaders to confront our planetary and social challenges.

THE BRIGHT STUFF
In his 60-minute presentation, Dr. Joe MacInnis describes a harrowing escape from death in a research sub during a three-mile dive under the North Atlantic—and what it taught him about leadership and teamwork. He follows this with four dramatic stories featuring Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Academy Award winning director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron, and shuttle astronaut Dave Williams. The stories about his three friends focus on their resolute courage, fierce innovation, creative collaboration and hyper-resilience—bringing fresh insights to these vital leadership skills.

Highlighting Dr. MacInnnis' presentation are riveting video clips of Aldrin describing the current significance of his historic moon-walk, Cameron leading a four-sub "Mars Mission" to a submerged sea mount, Williams training underwater for his recent space walks, and Cameron's astonishing discovery inside the Titanic during his 2005 Discovery Channel expedition. (MacInnis shot the Aldrin footage last January; Williams completed his 13-day shuttle mission in late August.)

Dr. MacInnis' presentation is about leadership and teamwork in extreme environments. It is especially relevant in today's uncertain economy. It reveals how individuals working with advanced technology under life-threatening conditions are creating new forms of leadership that can be applied to every deadline-driven, management challenge. The audience takes home a new understanding of leadership and a renewed commitment to apply it.

FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE EARTH

This program is designed for audiences such as the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy, organizations already committed to protecting the natural world. Dr. MacInnis speaks to them as a physician studying the psychology of human performance in extreme environments. He will take them into the deep ocean—an eco-system they are unfamiliar with—to reveal the qualities of character that allow us to survive in an environment that is freezing cold, totally dark, hours away from help, and where a single flaw or failure means the difference between life and death. His presentation congratulates them on their efforts to date and encourages them to continue working on their commitment to finding new ways to save Earth's eco-systems.

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