Amelia Rose Earhart Keynote Speaker and around-the-world pilot

Amelia Rose Earhart

One of the Youngest Women to Fly a Single-Engine Plane Around the World | Author of Learn to Love the Turbulence | Former NBC News Anchor | Motivational & Resilience Speaker

Amelia Rose Earhart is a record-setting pilot, former NBC news anchor, and one of the most inspiring voices on resilience and change. In 2014, she became one of the youngest women to fly a single-engine plane around the world, 28,000 nautical miles, completing the route of her namesake, the legendary Amelia Earhart. The author of Learn to Love the Turbulence, she shows audiences how to think like a pilot and stay in command through any storm.

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    Amelia Rose Earhart biography

    Motivational speaker Amelia Rose Earhart knows exactly what it takes to bring a bold dream to life when every odd is stacked against you. In 2014, she became one of the youngest women ever to fly a single-engine plane around the world, a 28,000-nautical-mile journey that retraced and symbolically completed the 1937 flight of her famous namesake, aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart. Tracked by millions, it was the culmination of years of planning, self-funded training, and relentless determination, and the source of the powerful lessons she now shares on stages worldwide.

    Before she took to the skies, Earhart spent nearly a decade as a television news anchor and reporter for NBC in Denver and Los Angeles, an experience that made her the polished, engaging presenter, host, and moderator she is today. Her around-the-world flight nearly never happened: just months before launch, a genealogist revealed she had no biological connection to the aviator she was named after, and most of her corporate sponsors threatened to walk away. Rather than quit, she pressed on, and turned the near-collapse of her dream into the heart of her message.

    Learn to Love the Turbulence

    That message became her book, Learn to Love the Turbulence: Flight Lessons on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey, in which she teaches readers to think like a pilot: to build a flight plan for any goal, assess risk, prepare backup plans, and course-correct through disruption with confidence. A passionate advocate for women in aviation, Earhart founded the Fly With Amelia Foundation to award flight scholarships to teenage girls, and serves on the board of Colorado’s Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, where memorabilia from her flight is on permanent display.

    As a speaker, Amelia Rose Earhart is warm, articulate, and genuinely uplifting, blending the storytelling polish of a broadcast journalist with the real, high-stakes drama of her flight around the world. She speaks on resilience and embracing turbulence, setting and reaching audacious goals, leading and course-correcting through uncertainty, and the confidence to venture into uncharted territory. Trusted by audiences from the Fortune 500 to the United States Air Force Academy, and equally at home as a keynote speaker, emcee, or moderator, she leaves every room inspired to become the pilot in command of their own journey.

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    Amelia Rose Earhart Keynote Topics

    In her signature keynote, Amelia Rose Earhart takes audiences into the cockpit of her flight around the world, and into the moments when everything nearly fell apart. Turbulence, she argues, is not something to survive but something to expect, prepare for, and even embrace. She shares the pilot's mindset that carried her through literal and figurative storms, and shows individuals and teams how to stay clear, calm, and in command when conditions get rough. A gripping, uplifting talk on resilience and change.

    How do you turn an audacious, seemingly impossible goal into reality? Drawing on the two years of planning, training, and fundraising behind her flight, Earhart gives audiences a practical, pilot's-eye framework for pursuing big ambitions: creating a flight plan, assembling and trusting your crew, identifying headwinds and tailwinds, and executing on the fly. An energizing, actionable keynote for teams venturing into uncharted territory.

    Every pilot knows a flight plan is essential, and that no flight ever goes exactly to plan. Earhart teaches audiences how to set a clear destination, anticipate risk, build in contingencies, and course-correct with confidence when circumstances change. Blending her real-world flight lessons with practical takeaways for business and life, she helps leaders and teams navigate disruption without losing sight of where they are headed.

    As a female pilot who achieved a world-recognized feat and founded a foundation to send young women to flight school, Earhart is a powerful voice for confidence, courage, and closing the gender gap in aviation and beyond. In this inspiring keynote, she shares how she overcame self-doubt and long odds to claim her place in the cockpit, and encourages audiences, especially women and girls, to take command of their own journeys. Ideal for women's events and empowerment programs.

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    Why Amelia Rose Earhart?

    Booking Amelia Rose Earhart brings audiences an unforgettable true story paired with genuinely useful lessons. One of the youngest women to fly a single-engine plane around the world, she turned a near-catastrophic setback into a world-recognized achievement, and distills that experience into a practical "pilot's mindset" for resilience, goal-setting, and leading through change. A former NBC news anchor, she is a polished, warm, and dynamic presenter who can serve as keynote speaker, emcee, or moderator, and who has earned rave reviews from the Fortune 500 to the United States Air Force Academy. Audiences leave inspired and equipped to handle their own turbulence. She is ideal for events on resilience, motivation, leadership, change, and women's empowerment. To bring Amelia Rose Earhart to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.

    Who is Amelia Rose Earhart?

    Amelia Rose Earhart is an American pilot, author, former television news anchor, and motivational speaker. In 2014, she became one of the youngest women to fly a single-engine aircraft around the world, a 28,000-nautical-mile journey that retraced and symbolically completed the 1937 route of her namesake, the legendary aviator Amelia Mary Earhart. Before her flight, she spent nearly a decade as a news anchor and reporter for NBC in Denver and Los Angeles. She is the author of Learn to Love the Turbulence: Flight Lessons on Becoming the Pilot in Command of Your Own Journey, and the founder of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, which has awarded flight scholarships to teenage girls. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

    Is Amelia Rose Earhart related to Amelia Earhart?

    No. Amelia Rose Earhart shares her name with the pioneering aviator Amelia Mary Earhart, and grew up believing she was distantly related, but she is not biologically connected to her. In a dramatic twist just months before her around-the-world flight, a genealogist revealed there was no family link, a discovery that had been a cornerstone of her public image and nearly caused her sponsors to withdraw. Rather than abandon the flight, she pushed forward, completing the journey in honor of her namesake and turning the experience into a central lesson about resilience. Today she is celebrated in her own right as a record-setting pilot and speaker.

    What topics does motivational speaker Amelia Rose Earhart cover?

    Amelia Rose Earhart speaks on resilience and learning to love the turbulence, setting and achieving bold goals, leading and course-correcting through change and uncertainty, and confidence, courage, and women in aviation. Drawing on her flight around the world and her "pilot's mindset" framework, her keynotes suit events on motivation, resilience, leadership, change, and women's empowerment, and she is also available as an emcee or moderator. To book Amelia Rose Earhart as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.

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