Dr. Kevin Fong
Dr Kevin Fong OBE combines NASA expertise and frontline emergency medicine to transform your team’s approach to risk, resilience and peak performance.
Why book Kevin Fong for your next event
- Gain actionable strategies for high-stakes decision-making, empowering your teams to lead confidently when pressure peaks and uncertainty dominates.
- Transform teamwork and communication with Kevin’s compelling insights into collaboration under life-or-death circumstances.
- NASA-trained doctor and OBE recipient, Kevin delivers insights forged from space exploration and emergency response leadership.
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Leadership Lessons from Space and Emergency Rooms
Discover how NASA physician, BBC broadcaster, and OBE honoree Dr Kevin Fong inspires organizations to thrive under pressure. Combining firsthand experience from space missions and emergency medicine, Kevin reveals how extraordinary teamwork, decisive leadership, and innovative thinking drive success in the most extreme environments. His award-winning talks captivate audiences with powerful lessons on resilience, adaptability, and the human potential to overcome adversity. From the NHS frontline to the Space Shuttle, Kevin delivers unmatched insights that transform mindsets and energize teams. Book Kevin Fong to ignite your event with world-class expertise and inspire your people to perform beyond limits.
Keynote Speaker Kevin Fong is internationally recognized for his unique expertise at the intersection of science, medicine and exploration. As a NASA-trained doctor and OBE honoree, he has spent decades mastering decision-making, risk management and teamwork in the most extreme environments imaginable, from the operating room to space missions.
Kevin is renowned for translating high-stakes experiences into actionable insights that empower organizations to thrive under pressure. His extensive frontline work, including leading the NHS COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness team and serving with the UK’s Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, equips him with unparalleled perspectives on resilience and leadership.
He has captivated global audiences through award-winning BBC programs, the acclaimed podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon, and the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Whether addressing innovation, crisis response, or human potential, his keynotes blend compelling storytelling with proven strategies that inspire teams to push beyond their limits.
If you are looking to ignite your organization with world-class expertise and transformative ideas, Book Kevin Fong for your event. His engaging presentations will empower your people to embrace uncertainty, drive performance and lead with confidence in any environment.
Keynotes
Keynote by Kevin Fong:
The Anatomy of Hope
Seconded to NHS England in March 2020 as part of the response team to COVID-19, Dr Kevin Fong benefited from a unique view on the pandemic that transformed our lives. He also witnessed the incredible collective effort of those on the NHS frontline to deliver the vaccine in the fight against coronavirus. With the roll-out of 100s of vaccine trials over just a few months, this pace of advance in science and medicine had never been seen before. The development of a vaccine was in no way easy, but it was in every way inspirational. In this talk, Kevin shares the lessons he learned about leadership, reveals some of the difficult decisions that had to be made in the face of extreme pressure, and shines light on the sense of hope that pushed people forward in a time of uncertainty. This talk is essential for leaders who are responsible for delivering change, and for building organisations which are robust enough to deal with a crisis when it hits. It looks at the importance of deferring to expertise and delegating authority, shredding red tape and embracing risk when it is outweighed by benefits.
Keynote by Kevin Fong:
13 Minutes to the Moon – Lessons in Life from Outer Space
50 years ago Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin skilfully flew their lunar module to the surface of the Moon; landing for the first time in the history of our species on the surface of another world. But their 13 minutes of final descent were riddled with hazard. The mission constantly teetered on the brink of failure but ultimately they were victorious. In this talk Kevin examines how disaster was averted by unpicking their 13 minute descent. The mission of Apollo 11 – and their successful landing on the Moon – is a masterclass in organisational endeavour and real time risk management. Half a century on from that historic mission in space there are still plenty of lessons for those of us here on Earth.
Keynote by Kevin Fong:
Decision Point
Kevin has spent his life working at the sharp end with some of the world’s leading high-risk, high-performance teams. From studying elite systems with NASA to assisting the British Military Emergency Response Team in Afghanistan, and from working on frontline NHS units during COVID-19 to his role as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) doctor – Kevin’s work hinges on making real decisions and facing real consequences. This talk explores how elite teams make decisions in the face of extreme pressure and, more importantly, how they learn from mistakes and continue to succeed. In uncertain times, and in the face of fast-moving threats, there are lessons here for all.
