Crazy Might Work
Issue #28 | June 2025
EOFY Early Bird Offer – Leadership Lessons from Space
The Next Virtual NASA 4-Dimensional Leadership Program Starts In July 2025
The award winning program starts on 22 July 2025 and runs through to 14 August 2025, over 4 weeks with two sessions per week from 12:00pm to 2:00pm AEST (on Tuesdays and Thursdays).
We are offering an EOFY Early Bird discount of 20% (save $400) for those that register by 30th June 2025. Use discount code AUSSPACE25 at registration. Register here.
Prefer to Run the 4-Dimensional Leadership Program In-House?
The NASA 4-D Program can be run in-house in face-to-face, virtual or hybrid formats to suit your geographical footprint and operating cadence. This option allows you to benchmark your teams against the 1,500 NASA teams that have voluntarily completed the program and use the NASA Playbook to improve team performance exponentially. Participants can include the leadership group, or leaders and their teams. Contact us about customising a program for your organisation at info@crazymightwork.com.
Crazy Might Work are Winners at AUS Space 25 Awards
Crazy Might Work has won Workforce Initiative of the Year in the Australian Space Awards for our 4-Dimensional Leadership program, initially made famous by NASA.
Thank you to all of you who have gone with us on the NASA 4-D Leadership journey. Winning this award will extend the program’s impact internationally and enable us to build better leaders around the globe. The acceptance speech caused a few giggles.
What Actually Creates High-Performing Teams?
(Hint: It’s not just psychological safety)
Thanks to studies by Amy Edmondson, Google and others, it is now well understood that psychological safety is an important factor in team performance. However, although psychological safety is crucially important, it does not, on its own, create a high-performing team…Read full article
Join us In-Person at Kennedy Space Center for the Launch of the 4-D Program for High-Performing Teams Made Famous by NASA
We are running a program over three consecutive days at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA in September 2025 with two days of core content, and an astronaut-led VIP tour, culminating in graduation and accreditation at Kennedy Space Center. If you are interested in attending, please email us at info@crazymightwork.com.
CRAZY MIGHT WORK OUT & ABOUT
HOW ASTRONAUTS ARE SELECTED AT AUS SPACE 25, May 2025
At AUS Space 25 at ICC in Sydney, Paul Hawkins presented on how the astronaut selection process is changing to reflect the psychological profile for long space travel. The highlight of the conference was meeting Australia’s two astronauts Paul Scully-Power and Eric Philips.
NOT A TALK FEST: A CHANCE TO EXPAND YOUR STRATEGIC INNOVATION SKILLS
Strategic Innovation Program on 26 and 27 August 2025 at Stamford Plaza, Melbourne.
Join executives, senior leaders and experts, gaining skills to drive real innovation in the areas that matter most. This is more than a training event, it’s an investment in your organisation’s future. You will get to work on something of critical strategic significance to your organisation and return with a new set of world-leading innovation skills, relationships and an innovative solution for pilot. Register Here.
Podcast
PODCAST: Fireside Chat: Charlie Pellerin and Paul Hawkins
Charlie Pellerin (Former Director of Astrophysics, NASA) and Paul Hawkins (Chief Combobulator, Crazy Might Work) discuss the origins of the NASA Four-Dimensional Leadership Program and why it has been so transformational globally since launching in the late 1990’s. Paul and Charlie discuss the revamped program which now incorporates simulations and updates from the current space program. Listen on your preferred podcast platform here:
“Having studied Leadership for many years, the NASA 4-D Leadership Program was an amazing life changing journey, helping me to build better teams and navigate the most hostile environments I could imagine. The program brought together a group of intelligent professionals and challenged them to see the world differently. The logical pathway from building people to developing them into a team and designing strong systems to create the ideas to drive progress makes sense and I have been applying it to my everyday life. I can’t highly recommend this excellent program enough. Now I just need my own rocket!”
– Former Commander, Raptor Squad (Australian Organised Crime Unit)