Everyone in an organization influences its culture, but as leaders, we set the tone. When thinking about your people, products, profitability, and productivity, is something in your experience prohibiting your team or organization from growing in a healthy manner? In this episode, René Banglesdorf, the Founder and Coach of The Aviation Collective, talks about how our experiences, good and bad, can influence our decisions and leadership.

Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Lutte is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Aviation Institute. Dr. Lutte is a commercial pilot, CFII, MEI, experimental aircraft owner, and active in the general aviation community. She was appointed by the Secretary of the DOT to the FAA Women in Aviation Advisory Board and serves as chair of the subcommittee, Understanding the problem and industry trends. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the University Aviation Association. Dr....

Kate Fraser is NetJets Director of Safety Assurance where she oversees the implementation of the Safety Management System (SMS), aviation emergency response plan, internal auditing, and drug and alcohol program. Prior to joining NetJets, Fraser spent nearly three years in the emerging market of Advance Aerial Mobility (AAM) as Joby Aviation’s Head of Safety and Uber’s Head of Aviation Policy. Kate previously had the honor of serving on the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA)...

Anna Winningham is a former Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During her 13-year tenure with the FBI she served as a case agent and a Supervisory Special Agent, overseeing multiple long-term, complex investigations including organized crime, drug, counter-terrorism, kidnapping and extortion investigations. Following her career with the FBI, Anna has provided investigative, Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and services to...

Therese Allison  is a self-made success story, mom, mentor and Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author of “Playing for Keeps – How a 21st century businesswoman beat the boys” (self-help memoir.) To help others succeed, Allison openly shares how she became financially independent at age 38 when her company (McKenna & Associates) was sold to AON, and retired early at 43 to spend quality time with her children. In this episode, hear all about her new book and how it uncovers her “16 Pearls of...

Sheryl Clarke had an extensive career in aviation from military to commercial to private aviation. She then took her skills in a new direction and transitioned to the oil and gas industry where she is currently the Head of HSE Learning and Operations Management System program management for British Petroleum-North America.  Hear more about the discrimination and obstacles she has faced being a female in a male dominated industry and how her upbringing and military experience led her to where...

Jessica Webster is a mother, partner, and career pilot residing in New Hampshire. She is a private executive jet captain with 20 years in the aviation industry. Driven by value creation through cultural transformation and continuous improvement, Jessica is the Founder and President of Hera Aviation Group; a non-profit organization and coaching and development-based consultancy group dedicated to making the aviation industry a more inclusive environment for women, caregivers and...

Anna Diaz is a Partner & Principal at Dowling & Yahnke Wealth Advisors which is an independent wealth management firm, managing over $5B in assets. D&Y is Ranked as a Top Advisor by Barron’s and other national publications. They provide investment, tax and financial planning services to over 1,300 clients across 36 different states. Hear more about how Anna combines both her technical and people skills in her industry, how she set goals along her career path from teller to...

Retired Vice Admiral Mary Jackson has over three decades of service in the United States Navy. She currently contributes as an independent advisor, serves as a board member for the Greater Jacksonville Area USO and the Surface Navy Association, and is pursuing for-profit board roles. Hear more about how Vice Admiral Jackson's unconventional journey led to an illustrious career of serving our great country.

Stacey Rudser is Maintenance Supervisor for Breeze Airways, specializing in Airbus A320 family maintenance. She was the first woman to graduate from the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Orlando and earned her A&P in 2009.  Passionate about diversity in aviation, Stacey serves on the national Board of Directors for the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance (AWAM), chairs the national Scholarship Program, and is the founder of Central Florida AWAM chapter #23.  She works...

María Jimenez is the General Manager of WeShipBox in Costa Rica, a logistics company that provides courier and other services.  María is a serial entrepreneur and also serves as co-owner and Board VP of 360 Fitness and 7 Dent Development. She also serves on the board and volunteers for numerous for and nonprofit organizations including the Costa Rica chapters of Junior Achievement and Vital Voices. Hear more about how she juggles all of her many responsibilities and how she navigates being a...

Tissa Richards is a bold, trusted, authentic technology founder, speaker and executive coach. She has founded, invested in, and run software companies in Silicon Valley, holds over a dozen software patents, and has won awards for her software products. Today, Tissa works with the world’s largest private equity and investment firms and corporations as well as innovative startups. Hear more about how she coaches leadership teams and executives and teaches them, especially women, how to express...

Tanya DiSalvo is president of Criterion in Brook Park, Ohio. While being the third generation to own and manage Criterion, a precision machine shop, making parts for the “No Failure Industries”, Tanya is also Past-President of the Cleveland Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA), and a former board member of WIRE-Net, and the Alliance for Working Together (AWT). Hear more about how she overcame challenges of being the boss's daughter in a male-dominated trade as well...

Sonja Rheaume started her electrical career in 1997.  After graduating from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana she moved back to her hometown in Portland, Oregon to work full time at her family company, Oregon Electric Group (OEG). Sonja learned all aspects of the business working her way up from Receptionist to Director of Operations. Sonja is currently the President of Christenson Electric, Inc. and oversees the operating units. Hear more about how Sonja's journey came full...

Laura Benson Jones is a founder and current Chair of the Board of Directors for Flight Club 502, a youth based non-profit in Louisville, Kentucky that focuses on using aerospace and aviation lessons to teach youth the importance of STEM/Next Generation learning, decision making skills, leadership and patriotism. Hear more about this amazing non-profit and her successful career in aviation.

Joey Colleran is the Director of Customer Success for Redbird Flight Simulations, a National Board Member of the University Aviation Association, and Member of the USDOT Youth Access to American Jobs in Aviation Task Force. And, she's also a single-engine land and sea rated private pilot. Hear more about her childhood dream of becoming a pilot and her journey to a career in aviation.

Kelly Bond is Vice President of Dealer Development at Brivo. With over 20 years experience in mergers, acquisitions and dealer programs in the electronic security industry, Kelly’s priority at Brivo is to develop and lead programs for their partners that provide additional opportunities for their ongoing growth and success. Hear more about the technological advances in electronic security and how the percentage of women in the industry has changed throughout the years.

From the front desk of a little FBO in Minnesota, to the captain’s seat of a commercial airliner, Erika Armstrong has experienced everything aviation has to offer. Erika is currently the VP of Business Development at Advanced Aircrew Academy, an aviation professor at MSU Denver and author of a Chick in the Cockpit. Hear more about her incredible journey in aviation.

Kimberly Perkins is among the 2% of pilots in the United States – a female captain.  She's a Captain on a Gulfstream 650 based in Seattle, WA and has piloted jets on six continents.  After living in Nigeria for two years, she started a non-profit called Aviation for Humanity.  They use the traveling public to bring school supplies to children in underfunded schools, shelters and orphanages around the world. Hear more about Kimberly's nonprofit as well as her thoughts on gender parity and...

Angie Deming is the President of Republic First National Corporation, a national municipal and commercial finance company that focuses on emergency and service vehicles. Listen in as she discusses how she fell into her career in finance and transportation, financing fire trucks among many other things. She also discusses challenges she's faced in her male-dominated industry.

Sarah Kalmeta is a strategic leader, coach and educator in the business aviation industry. She has over twelve years of experience working with vendors, service providers and aviation authorities in Asia Pacific and around the globe. In this episode, hear more about how she has adapted to cultural differences working overseas specifically as a woman in the aviation industry.

Stormy Bradley is a thirty-year-old lifelong learner. She plays the roles of business owner, mother and wife on a daily basis. Stormy's goals are to run the most efficient construction companies in Texas, to constantly pour into her community by improving on leadership and financial wellness. In this episode, learn more about how she got to where she is today and how she balances it all.

Dr. Karrie Dixon a transformational leader in the University of North Carolina (UNC) System. For over 20 years, she has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to improving the lives of others through higher education. That commitment continues as Chancellor of ECSU. Her focus on increasing enrollment, leveraging resources, enhancing all aspects of the ECSU campus, and strengthening stakeholder engagement has produced results. Hear more about Dr. Dixon as she discusses finding her passion and...

Adrienne Larrew, founder of Corner Post Meats sat with René to discuss her business in providing customers with exceptional forest raised pork, grass finished beef, grass-finished lamb, and pastured poultry. Listen in as she discusses her company's "give a damn” philosophy and also how her business shifted in the wake of COVID-19.

Josefina Hobbs is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Synopsys, the largest Electronic Design Automation company in the world. Although she followed a traditional engineering education pathway, Josefina is definitely not your typical engineer. She has used her unique blend of technical acumen and interpersonal skills to build relationships with her coworkers and customers alike, with a focus on mutual trust and respect.  Listen in as she discusses her inspiration, the obstacles she's faced...