speaker and panelist
Terri is a tiara-wearing, champagne-drinking troublemaker who connects with audiences ready to hear the truth about midlife, power, and designing lives outside the patriarchal playbook.
She brings her diverse background as a commercially rated helicopter pilot, author of Piloting Your Life, travel content creator, former angel investor, and IT consultant to challenge midlife women to stop performing perfection and start piloting their own lives. Her talks combine hard-won wisdom, irreverence, and practical strategies for navigating the second half of life with intention.
Whether she's speaking to corporate audiences about women and power, midlife women ready for transformation, or conference attendees needing permission to design something different, Terri's message is clear: the definition of success was designed by and for men, and it's time we write our own rules.
Terri is a vocal advocate for diverse speakers and panels, encouraging conference and event organizers to bring multiple voices and perspectives to—and to lead—the conversation.
Terri Hanson Mead is available for keynotes, panels, moderating, podcast interviews, and speaking engagements on the following topics:
🚁Midlife Women: Midlife is not a crisis; it’s an opportunity for women. Terri speaks candidly and amusingly about her experience as a woman over the age of 40 in life, love, as a parent, as a founder, as an investor, and as a helicopter pilot. She shares her passion for encouraging other women to create and live a more meaningful and impactful life of their choosing.
🚁Piloting Your Own Life: There are so many social pressures and expectations for women in this world that it is easy to lose one's bearings and disconnect from one's internal compass. Now more than ever, it is important to set your own destination (vision) and define your core values (set your compass) and make all of your decisions in support of both. You will need to trust yourself as not everything will go according to plan. But, all of this will enable you to live your life authentically, without apology, and be the pilot in your own life.
“Terri was AWESOME
Her talk was thought provoking.
She was so authentic and energetic
She has a lot of courage to be vulnerable.......”
🚁Demographics are Shifting, Have your investments? As the market demographics are shifting to put more spending power in the hands of previously underrepresented populations, investors are not investing in companies that serve these markets to the same degree. Women control 80% of the money spent in households, and yet they are not recognized as a large market demographic by investors. Terri discusses the benefits of paying attention to demographics in choosing investments as well as why investing in non-cis-het-white men founders makes good investing sense.
For speaking and media inquiries, please contact terrihansonmead@gmail.com or send a note via the form below.