Lana Starchuck

Lana Starchuck

ON, CA

As a resilience strategist and record-holding skydiver with over 1000 skydives, I inspire teams to perform under pressure using formation skydiving principles. Through shared responsibility, diverse perspectives, and reframing fear, groups leave energized and aligned with a practical way forward.

Lana Starchuck is a five-time skydiving record holder, including two gold medals, with over 1000 skydives. She has a portfolio career as an award-winning playwright, author, speaker, and editor who writes books and edits books, with a background in theatre, journalism, education and creative writing. She has extensive experience in corporate communications and marketing. Her next book, When Your Parachute Fails and Other Success Stories is a self-improvement book to help confront your fear, reframe failure, and get moving in a new direction.


Lana faces mortality and vitality on every skydive and is intimate with the risk of dying. Her new book reminds readers of guiding principles they already possess to reframe their situation with more clarity and less fear. These principles are: failure, awareness, acceptance, humility, trust, patience, perseverance, confidence, mentorship and consistency.


Lana makes death less weird, risk more fun, and sees failure as feedback.

Lana Starchuck is a five-time skydiving record holder, including two gold medals, with over 1000 skydives. She has a portfolio career as an award-winning playwright, author, speaker, and editor who writes books and edits books, with a background in theatre, journalism, education and creative writing. She has extensive experience in corporate communications and marketing. Her next book, When Your Parachute Fails and Other Success Stories is a self-improvement book to help confront your fear, reframe failure, and get moving in a new direction.


Lana faces mortality and vitality on every skydive and is intimate with the risk of dying. Her new book reminds readers of guiding principles they already possess to reframe their situation with more clarity and less fear. These principles are: failure, awareness, acceptance, humility, trust, patience, perseverance, confidence, mentorship and consistency.


Lana makes death less weird, risk more fun, and sees failure as feedback.

When Your Parachute Fails: Risk, Fear, and The Power of Resilience

What if you weren’t afraid to fail?


This one-hour keynote will boost your confidence to help you take more risk. Using the J.U.M.P. framework I demonstrate how to just notice your fear, understand calculated risk, make bold decisions and proceed with trust. 


In recent sessions, I have inspired audiences to recognize their potential, rethink failure, and take the first step toward their goals before it’s too late. Think about what I can do for...

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