keynotes & speaking
Terri Hanson Mead 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.
Terri helps women navigate reinvention and intentionally design and live lives aligned with who they are now—not who they were expected to be.
A Stanford instructor, author of Piloting Your Life, commercially rated helicopter pilot, entrepreneur, and travel creator, Terri combines hard-won experience with practical tools that help women move from uncertainty to action.
Whether speaking to corporate audiences, leadership groups, conferences, or communities of women navigating life's transitions, Terri challenges conventional definitions of success and encourages audiences to stop living by someone else's expectations and start writing their own rules.
Her talks are equal parts thought-provoking, practical, humorous, and deeply relatable, leaving audiences with greater clarity, courage, and confidence about what comes next.
🚁Piloting Your Own Life
Based on Terri's book, Piloting Your Life.
How to stop living by someone else's expectations and start designing a life aligned with your values, vision, and priorities.
🚁Midlife Is Not a Crisis; It’s an Opportunity
Why midlife may be the first time many women have the freedom, wisdom, and confidence to intentionally design what comes next. For women who have done everything right and still find themselves asking, "Now what?"
🚁Women, Power, and Redefining Success
How traditional definitions of success leave many women feeling disconnected from themselves—and what happens when women create their own measures of success.
what audiences are saying about terri
"Terri was AWESOME. Her talk was thought-provoking. She was so authentic and energetic. She has a lot of courage to be vulnerable."
— Audience Feedback, Stryker Unconscious Bias Event
"Terri is smart, competent, inspiring, and honest. She brought a grounded perspective to each session that made the material feel both accessible and incredibly relevant. I love her ability to tell it like it is—with humor, directness, and insight."
— Claudia H., Stanford Continuing Studies Student, Winter 2025
"Terri's class on navigating midlife was like having a deep, honest chat with a wise (and hilarious) friend, except backed by solid research and real talk. She somehow manages to take all the chaos of midlife, lay it out in a way that makes sense, and remind us that we're not crazy... we're just evolving."
— Jackie W., Stanford Continuing Studies Student, Winter 2025
"Terri created a space for me that was equal parts safe and challenging. She asked the difficult questions and helped me uncover insights I couldn't see on my own. I left with greater clarity, a deeper sense of courage, and an intentional, achievable flight plan for what comes next."
— Stacy M., Stanford Continuing Studies Student, Winter 2025
booking information
Terri Hanson Mead is available for keynotes, workshops, panels, moderating, podcast interviews, and speaking engagements.
For speaking and media inquiries, please contact terrihansonmead@gmail.com or use the contact form below.