How to Fly: Life Lessons from a Professional Skydiver
Join Melanie Curtis live on the big screen from the USA as she shares actionable insight from her wide-ranging career as a professional skydiver, life coach and human as reflected in the title of her book, How to Fly: Life Lessons from a Professional Skydiver. In this session, Melanie will also speak from her experience as a woman in the sport, and from her newest leadership roles as Executive Director of the Women’s Skydiving Network foundation and co-founder of the all-female Highlight Pro Skydiving Team. As always, Melanie invites questions and expanded thoughts, encouraging participation and group discussion.
Melanie Curtis is a life coach, speaker, author, podcast host and professional skydiver. As a leader and influencer in both skydiving and personal development, Melanie has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Thrive Global, on CBS Sunday Morning, Masters of Scale, and wrote a monthly column for Blue Skies Magazine for over a decade. She has written 3 books, her most recent, How to Fly: Life Lessons from a Professional Skydiver, the anthology of all her columns, launched on Audible in 2021.
Melanie has over 11,000 jumps, has been skydiving 26 years and was the first-ever recipient of the Parachute Industry Association Mentorship Award. Melanie is the Executive Director of the Women’s Skydiving Network nonprofit and co-founded Highlight, an all-female demo team whose mission is to inspire women and girls to live bold brave lives of their own design, elevate gender equality and motivate social impact.