He is a leading international speaker and consultant to corporations, entrepreneurial organizations and associations of innovation technology and creativity. Inc., he is known for his results-based work in helping companies profit from creative applications of new technology and tapping the innovative spark inherent in every work force. The fourth man to set foot on the moon, spacecraft commander of the 59 day Skylab Mission II, and sought after professional speaker, Capt.
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He bases his lectures on his life experience as an astronaut. Along with being the author of a number of noted texts, he is chairman of Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., a full-service management training and consulting company and a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University. He holds numerous speaking awards. His story of his own personal comeback from crippled Vietnam veteran to NFL football fame is told in the book Fighting Back and recreated in an ABC-TV movie. Rocky Bleier is active in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, serves on the International Board of the Special Olympics, and helped make possible the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the nation s capital.