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Mr. Shane Deichman, 2021 Board Member
Communications Committee, Membership Committee and Website Creator

What is your role at your company?

I am a “Strategist” with Caliola Engineering, a woman-owned small business founded two years ago in Colorado Springs to provide secure, assured communications at a very low cost. Caliola has been a corporate member of CSBR since 2020 and has been wildly successful in sharing their vision for improving secure communications for very demanding customers. I’m also Chief Solutions Architect for BAE Systems Inc.’s Intelligence & Security Sector, supporting their Integrated Defense Solutions team. My personal mission statement is to help deliver better data to Warfighters more quickly – something that can’t be done without Space.

What do you like most about being a member of CSBR?

Colorado has such an inspiring business ecosystem, particularly in the aerospace sector. I am continually amazed at the incredible creations our partner businesses deliver every day. CSBR’s vision is to help those companies achieve even more success, promoting their growth and serving as a forum for exchanging information. This is what continues to motivate me as a member of the CSBR Board: bringing different organizations together to collaborate and achieve more together than they could have achieved individually.

Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us.

I am a rocker. My workout playlist is filled with Five Finger Death Punch, Korn, and Disturbed. And some of my most memorable concerts have been accompanying my oldest daughter to see some of her favorite rock bands live – like Asking Alexandria and Black Veil Brides. And when a neighbor recently hosted a costume party, this was the result:

What are three career lessons you’ve learned thus far?

One of the most important lessons I learned for personal effectiveness was organizing my information. When I was in college, my dad got me a “Daytimer”. He said there’s too much to rely solely on our memory, so his gift helped me make a habit of writing down notes – from mundane things like “get bread” to longer-term ambitions or goals. So the first lesson is to find a way to become more organized in your personal notes.

The second lesson is learning how to help others be more effective to achieve their own aspirations. This depends on empathy, listening skills, and not transposing your own story into theirs. The essence of leadership is liberating the talents of others, especially if they doubt their own abilities.

Finally, always keep the big picture in mind. It is very easy to get caught in our own personal Schwarzschild Radius and never look beyond the immediate task in front of us. But such a narrow focus causes us to miss opportunities to achieve a goal more quickly by a slightly different path. Take a step back and consider a larger perspective.

– What is your favorite movie and book?

My all-time favorite movie is The Matrix (1999, Warner Bros.). The advance marketing was brilliant: random emails (in the days before spam blockers) reading “The Matrix Has You” and a URL to whatisthematrix.com. When I first watched it, I had remained spoiler free – so when Morpheus told Neo that he’s a slave in a prison he cannot see or feel, I expected it to be some cultural reference to our workaholic lives. Neo taking the red pill and “waking up” is the most startling and poignant moment in any movie I’ve ever seen!

For my favorite book, I have a couple. For non-fiction, Robert Massie’s “Dreadnaught” tells the story of the rise of the modern Royal Navy during the end of Queen Victoria’s reign – and its collision course with her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Prussia, which shaped the early 20th century’s devastating world wars. My favorite work of fiction is Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series – an epic tale of Roland, the last Gunslinger, that over the course of eight books weaves a multiverse that echoes through King’s more popular works (like It and The Stand)

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