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Olympia LePoint
Award-Winning Author, Former NASA Scientist & TED Speaker
Olympia LePoint
Award-Winning Author, Former NASA Scientist & TED Speaker
Biography
Hailed “The New Einstein” by her fans and named the “Modern Day Hidden Figure” by People Magazine and Newsweek, Olympia LePoint is a former NASA rocket scientist and award-winning author who is helping audiences overcome fear with science, her personal story and trail-blazing faith. Seen by 28 million viewers on TV news programs and online through her TED talk entitled “Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear”, Olympia LePoint helped launch 28 NASA Space Shuttle Missions to Space. Now she is the author of the award-winning Answers Unleashed® book series and is a part-time Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Ethics Professor at California State University Northridge. Olympia LePoint’s Answers Unleashed® science book series has generated fans across the world, winning the 2023 IRWIN Award at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her books are taught at CSUN and at UCLA.
She grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California in poverty, mid inner-city trauma and failing grades. Despite her horrific challenges, she reprogrammed her brain for success and graduated as 1 of the Top 5 graduates from a 6,500 graduating class with degrees in Applied Mathematics from California State University Northridge. She later helped launch NASA missions to space as an award-winning propulsion scientist.
Today, she is a celebrity, and an award-winning author. She received the 2023 IRWIN Award at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and she is the Top 100 Women of the Future in Emerging Technology. She won the Modern-Day Technology Leader, Engineer of the Year Award. She is featured in USA Today, on PBS, CBS News, NBC News, Cheddar, ABC News, Buzzfeed, Yahoo! News, FOX Weather, Scripps News and on The Doctor’s TV show.
While some leaders call LePoint a prophet, LePoint calls herself a keynote speaker with answers. She shows you that you can reprogram your mind, at any age, to find positive answers for your future. Book Olympia LePoint today.
Speaker Videos
Olympia LePoint AI News Show Sizzle Reel
Generative AI Timeline
Tributes to the late US Senator Dianne Feinstein
Billy and Dom Talk to a Rocket Scientist!
Speech Topics
Blast Off: A Journey from South Central LA to Launching NASA Rockets
Olympia LePoint tells her personal inspiring story of how she overcame extreme poverty: from being raised in South Central Los Angeles, and failing in school, to later earning her degrees in applied math. After graduation, she became an award-winning NASA rocket scientist. The award-winning author and TED speaker motivates audiences by sharing her Formula for Success for people wanting to overcome adversity, discover their talents, and launch their own life into the direction for success. This motivational speech is geared for all ages, and it inspires audiences to formulate their missions and reach them.
TED Talk: Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear
Fear is a common emotion that everyone faces when success is just a few feet away. Your success is dependent on removing fear. Now, fear can be removed from your thinking with a 3-step method. Based on her experience supporting NASA’s Mission Control, award-winning rocket scientist and author Olympia LePoint devises a new thinking process for reprogramming the human brain to overcome fear. With her triumphant story, Olympia LePoint answers how humans can simultaneously turn off fear and rebuild the frontal brain lobes to accomplish great feats. The ground-breaking method is based from Olympia LePoint’s first book entitled, Mathaphobia, and her viral TED talk “Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear.”
Preventing Failures Before They Happen & Saving Future Company Profits
What if you could pick the future that you wanted, before it happens? What if you could see future failures that could destroy your organization, and you could also see the preventions that would save millions? As a NASA scientist, LePoint became a master at helping people see into multiple futures at once, so engineers could pick their success. In this talk, LePoint transports you and your company into the future, where you can clearly see into your two futures. Olympia LePoint reveals how you can prevent failures before they occur with the 6 decisions that can save your company’s future. You can create success this year, and for years to come with this talk.
Leadership: Make 6 Decisions for the Future That You Want
Some people say that your past determines your future, but one rocket scientist says that you can choose the future that you want with targeted decision-making. With a new decision-making method called Quantum Deciding®, Olympia LePoint explains the six decisions to obtain the future that you want. She shares the method from her third book Answers Unleashed II: The Science of Attracting What You Want. Olympia LePoint and her book have been featured on NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, MSNBC News, FOX News, Yahoo News, The Doctors, Newsweek and USA Today. LePoint helps audience members remove the six causes of indecisiveness, identify your immediate next steps toward your best future, and shows you how to multiply your resources for success.
Workforce Development & Investor Engagement - Valuing People Who Think Differently than You
In this talk, Olympia LePoint shares the 3 things you need to know to develop your workforce to have award-winning results. The most successful way that your organization will succeed is simple: by valuing the people who think differently than you. This talk teaches audiences to value the differences in how we think. In this talk, Olympia LePoint shares her personal story of being a woman of color at the age of 21, who stepped in to an aerospace environment, launching NASA rockets. She found ways to ensure all people were heard, and her voice helped save lives. Her efforts won the Modern-Day Technology Leader Engineer of the Year Award. Now, she shares how your team can find winning results.
Finding Hope and Restoring Your Life After Natural Disasters
In this talk, Olympia LePoint explains her experience surviving the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, where it nearly killed her and her siblings as they ran out of a collapsing building. She survived the natural disaster to tell her story. However, her friend died across the street. Immediately after, she was tasked with continuing her life with the continued memory flashbacks. After years of professional help, LePoint finally learned the process to reprogram her brain to mentally heal. In this talk, Olympia LePoint reveals the keys to reprograming your mind from survival thoughts, into the innovative thoughts for success.
Programming AI to Love and Protect Humans
As a computer program and advanced technology, artificial intelligence does not possess feelings, which poses a certain challenge. It alerts us to potential dangers and dark sides of AI. AI can be programmed to communicate with empathy, but its power as a tool remains limited by the ethical boundaries and emotional context you define for it. In this talk, Olympia LePoint explains how you can program love and respect in AI algorithms and platforms, to love and respect human life. Olympia LePoint reveals the Quantum Deciding® decision-making method for both human and robots, to ensure the emotional cues and empathetic behaviors AI is trained on can be accurate and aligned with human values that protect human lives.
AI: Understanding the AI Foundations & Applications in Business
The field of computer science known as artificial intelligence, or AI for short, is devoted to the development of intelligent computers that are capable of carrying out activities that ordinarily call for human intellect. Business Intelligence, BI, is AI applied to helping companies use technology in a way that reduces work tasks. Both AI, and BI simulates human-like intelligence and decision-making.
- How AI can fail, and stay safe
- AI terminology
- The history of AI
- The laws surrounding AI and biometrics
- How machine learning and LLMs work
- Ways to prevent AI prejudice
- Tactics to spot deepfake videos, GANS and use the right media forensics
AI: The AI Code of Ethics
With today’s emerging artificial intelligence technology, humans are at another pivotal turning point within innovation. No matter your country’s origin, artificial intelligence brings amazing benefits and concerning risks. As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Professor, Olympia LePoint believes that Artificial Intelligence is simply a tool, and ethical standards are required to ensure people stay safe. In this talk, LePoint explains the AI Codes of Ethics and how various artificial intelligence technologies develop new innovation. She reveals the current ethical concerns regarding its outputs, and the upcoming policies needed to keep people’s identity safe.
Innovation with AI & Biometrics while Securing Ethics and Human Safety
With the new age of AI, many questions arise: What rights do humans hold in the digital space? Can you use AI safely? And in what cases can you be sued? Will laws still protect people when their biometric faceprint, fingerprint and voiceprint is being sold to the highest bidder? For example: Do you know how to remove your data from being used without your consent? In this timely message, Olympia LePoint explains how AI works, how it can be safely used within your organization, and what biometric safeguards you need to establish within your organization to protect employees and consumers. This talk gives you the direction on how to use AI safely, and promote digital safety, in the coming digital age.