Motivate your workforce

Target Leadership’s dynamic leadership workplace safety speaker Jeff “Odie” Espenship is one of the most sought after motivational presenters with a proven track record inspiring employees at all levels to embrace workplace culture & leadership safety processes and procedures in the workplace.

Founded by Jeff “Odie” Espenship, a former USAF A-10 “Thunderbolt” fighter pilot, air show pilot, and current international airline pilot who gives a non-preachy-edutainment style of customized keynote that will “make you laugh, make you cry, and make you laugh again. ” He uses his personal and professional triumphs and tragedies as a springboard to kickoff any corporate meeting, or as a closing keynote to “keep the message alive” long after the meeting is over!

What makes Target Leadership so effective on stage?

“I touch everyone emotionally!” says Odie. Too often, we fail to appreciate the size of the shadow we cast when we walk into a room or on the job. People are always watching and learning by the actions of leadership. By sharing significant life events with your team, both Odie will drive home the power of pursuing perfection and achieving excellence at all levels.

• Be accountable – not held accountable.
• People will forget what you say, but they will always remember how you make them feel.
• Where there’s a will there’s a way; where there’s no will, there’s always an excuse.
• Most overnight successes take about 20 years.
• High performing people want what is right, not to be right.
• Communicate to understand. It’s a conversation, not a confrontation.

Progress Energy Florida reported a 48% reduction in personal injuries and a 42% reduction in vehicle accidents after working with Odie.

AES Corporation plant achieved 12 months without a single recordable OSHA injury after several Target Leadership workshops and keynotes.

Admiral Merchants Motor Fleet CEO called Odie’s message “marvelous” and “exceeded expectations”.

Other satisfied clients include ExxonMobil Companies, General Electric, The Southern Companies, NASA, Entergy, Chevron, Valero Corporation, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), Behavioral Science Technologies (BST), and trade organizations such as VPPPA, ILMA, IEEE, IBEW, and NSC.

Odie has written numerous articles for safety magazines such as Incident Prevention. He has been interviewed by OSHA’s BLR newsletter because his message is so “distinctively different” and “receives a lot of ‘BUZZ’ after a presentation.” Odie has helped produce, write, and appear in numerous safety-leadership training DVDs for corporations like Pennsylvania Power and Light, Michelin Tire, and CLECO.