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Olympia  LePoint

Olympia LePoint

Rocket Scientist, Author & TV Journalist

Olympia LePoint

Rocket Scientist, Author & TV Journalist

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 now 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 Space Shuttle Missions to Space.

Today, LePoint’s Mission Control Room desk is a science exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. In her youth, Olympia LePoint overcame severe poverty, traumatic experiences, plus failing math scores by reprogramming her mind, which led her to graduate Top 5 from a 6,500 graduating class with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mathematics.

As an internationally recognized scientist, LePoint helped launch NASA’s Endeavour, Discovery, Columbia, and Atlantis Space Shuttles. She won The 2004 Boeing Company Professional Excellence Award, and The 2003 National Engineer of the Year “Modern Day Technology Leader” Award. LePoint has gained numerous engineering awards.

Today, she is a celebrity, 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 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.

Olympia LePoint’s self-help science educational Answers Unleashed book series has generated fans across the world. She shows you that you can reprogram your mind, at any age, to find the answers for the world’s future. LePoint also discusses how human decisions can alter the course of time and how science and technology will change the course of our future. She is an author and science journalist who is exposing how science can provide answers for the future through her News stories, her educational books and live + virtual lectures at universities and global technology forums.

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 earning her degrees in applied math and later becoming an award-winning NASA rocket scientist. The award-winning author and TED speaker motivates audiences by sharing her 7-Step Success Strategy 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 people to reach for their own star, and succeed in their own mission.

Beat The Odds & Build New Innovation with Answers Unleashed

Olympia LePoint reveals how you can use your most challenging experiences to unleash innovation. Through her own adversity, she shares how to beat the odds.  She shares her triumphant journey, from being raised in South Central Los Angeles poverty to becoming a NASA rocket scientist and award-winning author, so people find solutions in their lives. Through the contents of her second book Answers Unleashed®:The Science of Unleashing Your Brain’s Power, Olympia reveals how to use setbacks to guide your next steps, find answers to pressing concerns, and build innovation for a new successful outcome.

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.”

Leadership: Make 6 Decisions for the Future that You Want with Quantum Deciding

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.

Women's Leadership for the 21st Century

Many times, leaders need to build innovative products and provide extraordinary direction, yet women can face an unsupportive staff due to bias. Employee and organizational constraints also halt progress. In this keynote, Olympia LePoint shares her personal stories as a woman leader in an engineering environment. She reveals her proven Quantum Deciding approach which creates innovative solutions and builds a supportive staff. Olympia LePoint empowers leaders to gain organizational support, to use pre-existing resources to catapult innovation, and to build employee satisfaction. The best leaders are also women.