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Zero-G Executive Leadership Experience

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This once-in-a-lifetime leadership training experience combines DTE’s proprietary ELVIS Experience Design Leadership system with the incredible Zero-G experience. 

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Who is it for?

Executives and other leaders from corporations, small businesses, start-ups, foundations and boards, non-profits, government, and non-governmental organizations.      

You and your team will:

  • Grow your transformational leadership skills and identities

  • Use the ELVIS psychological framework for Experience Design Leadership and see how we use it with Zero-G

  • Experience a Zero-G flight, including all training and preparation (yes, even the flight suits and socks!)

  • Learn how to transfer your new leadership psychology framework and skills to your work and life beyond

Get YOUR Wings!

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We offer 4 anchor leadership experiences.  

An engagement call starts your customization to meet YOUR needs.

* Ask about Package Discounts for booking multiple programs.

Program facilitator and leadership expert Dr. Brad McLain brings numerous activities, examples, stories, and videos from his work at NASA on the Space Shuttle program and with astronaut training programs, his extensive work with Jane Goodall, his leadership book, Designing Transformative Experiences, and from his numerous other transformative experiences.  The training will also include a healthy dose of the history, science, physics, and physiology of reduced gravity parabolic flights in combination with the ELVIS Leadership Framework and Toolkit.

Designed for individual leaders to experience without their teams, but with people from other organizations.  We take you through the ELVIS Experience Design Leadership Framework and the psychology of transformative experience design using Zero-G as our real-world exemplar experience.  The emphasis here is on individual growth and skill-building.  This includes preparing for, and experiencing a Zero-G flight, translating the experience into meaningful portable skills, and designing the ways you will apply this training to your own leadership journey.  Base program includes 12 hybrid contact hours over 1 to 2 weeks, with 2 days in-person (inclusive of flight day).

Individual Leadership

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Prices Starting at $14,000 (+ tax) Per Person

Includes 12 hours of online and in-person leadership training services and materials, 15 flight parabolas, flight day hotel and meals, flight suits (yours to keep!), champaign Re-Gravitation Celebration, ELVIS Leadership training completion certificate and flight badge, photos and video of your team’s experiences. 

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Prices Starting at $166,000 (+ tax) Per Team

For teams of up to 28 people with reserved sections on public flights or private charter options.  Includes 20 hours of online and in-person leadership training + materials, 15 flight parabolas, flight day hotel and meals, flight suits (yours to keep!), champaign Re-Gravitation Celebration, Leadership training completion certificate and flight badge, photos and video of your team’s experience.  

This is a team-building and leader-skill-building experiential training like no other - designed for teams who work together.  We take you and your team through the ELVIS Experience Design Leadership Framework and the psychology of transformative experience design using Zero-G as our real-world exemplar experience.  This includes preparing for, and experiencing a Zero-G flight, translating the experience into meaningful portable skills, and designing the ways you will bring this training back to your work together.  Base program includes 20 contact hours over 1 to 2 weeks, with 2 days in-person (inclusive of flight day).

Executive Team Experience

It’s carrot day!  This 2-day experience (one-day prep, one-day flight) is designed as a motivation and/or reward program for leaders to share with their direct reports, including powerful team-building focused on the psychological elements of trust, belonging, and supportive risk-taking.

Incentive & Rewards

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Prices Starting at $65,000 (+ tax) for Group Size of 5 +

Includes 15 flight parabolas, flight day hotel and meals, flight suits (yours to keep!), champaign Re-Gravitation Celebration, flight badge, photos and video of your experience. 

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Prices Starting at $166,000 (+ tax) per  Group

For Co-Op groups of 10 to 14 people in your own reserved section on public flights. Includes 20 hours of leadership training + materials, 15 flight parabolas, flight day hotel and meals, flight suits (yours to keep!), champaign Re-Gravitation Celebration, ELVIS Leadership training completion certificate and flight badge, photos and video of your experience. 

Designed to pool the resources of several small businesses that wish to engage in this program but share the costs to make it more affordable.   Accommodating up to 14 people from different organizations to form your Zero-G Flight Team.  Base program includes 20 hybrid contact-hours over 1 to 2 weeks, with 2-days in-person (inclusive of flight day).

Small Business Co-Op

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