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Aviation Leadership for Women

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Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | 1300-1400

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Connect with us socially #NBAA18 | 3Sources: The New York Times, 5 Jun 2018; Skrift, 4 Jun 2018; PBS News Hour, 11 Feb 2018; The Telegraph, 17 Aug 2017; The Guardian, 31 Jan 2014

Aviation Leadership for Women

Topics


The state of women in aviation leadership

Why should we increase representation of women in aviation leadership?

How can we increase representation of women in aviation leadership?

Who can help increase representation of women in aviation leadership?

Skills & attitudes

that can help

develop and

advance women

leaders

Please have your apps ready for polling questions

What is the problem?

Women in Aviation Business Leadership


Poll:

Are there enough women in aviation senior

management?


a. I think there are too many women in aviation senior management.

b. Things are fine the way they are. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

c. Sure, more women in aviation leadership would be good, but it’s not

worth a lot of money or effort.

d. I want to see more women in leadership and think that aviation

companies ought to be doing more.

e. We need to be elevating women to senior leadership, and aviation

companies should make it a top priority.

Scarcity of Women in Top Leadership

The Funnel Effect

Connect with us socially #NBAA18 | 7Sources: Catalyst, Women CEOs of the S&P 500 (2017); EY Center for Board Matters, 2016 Top Earners in S&P 500 Companies; Catalyst, 2016 Catalyst Census: Women and Men Board Directors(2017); US EEOC 2015 S&P 500 EEO-1 data; Eurostat, Women in Transport (2017); EY Corporate Governance Center, 2013 Diversity Drives Diversity

47.0%

44.7%

36.9%

26.5%

21.2%

11.0%

4.6%

47.0%

40.0%

11.0%

16.0%

3.0%

0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0% 45.0% 50.0%

Work Force Participants

Total Employees

First / Mid-Level Officials and Mgrs

Exec / Senior-Level Officials & Mgrs

Board Seats

Top Earners

CEOs

Aviation Industry S&P 500

47%

Women in Senior Executive Roles

Connect with us socially #NBAA18 | 8Sources: IATA, International Women’s Day 2018—Aviation has further to go (2018); Grant Thornton, Women in business: New perspectives on risk and reward (2017)

3% 3%

8%

32%

12%

9%

19%

23%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

CEO COO CFO HR Dir.

Aviation Other industries

Why does it matter?

The Case for Women in Aviation Business

Leadership


Poll:

Does having women leaders positively affect a

company’s financial success?


a. Women’s initiatives are a waste of money.

b. They may break even, but are more trouble than they’re worth.

c. I really don’t care. This looked like a quiet place to sit for a while.

d. More women in leadership is a net positive…at least some times.

e. Women make it rain.

Companies With Women Leaders Perform Better

Connect with us socially #NBAA18 | 11Sources: Catalyst, The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards 2004-2008, 2011; MSCI, Women on Boards, Nov. 2015; Credit Suisse Research Institute, The CS Gender 3000: The Reward for Change, Sept. 2016 ; EY, Women. Fast Forward, 2015; McKinsey & Co., How to accelerate gender diversity on boards, Jan. 2017; Hong, L., Page, S.E., Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers, 2004

10.5%

15.3%

0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

14.0%

16.0%

18.0%

0 ♀Directors 3+ ♀Directors

Catalyst(S&P 500)

7.4%

10.1%

0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

0 WomenDirectors

3+ ♀Dir (or 1 ♀dir+♀CEO)

MSCI(1.6k+ globally)

ROE Premium

13.0%

15.3%

0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

14.0%

16.0%

18.0%

Sr. mgmt <10%♀ Sr. mgmt. >15%♀

Credit Suisse(3k+ firms globally)

+46%

+36.5%

+19%

Balanced Teams Perform Better


Women Help Solve Personnel Shortages


Poll:

Do we need to take additional action to increase

the number of women in leadership positions?


a. We need to decrease the number of women in leadership.

b. I’m still not interested in increased numbers of women aviation leaders.

c. It’ll work itself out over time. We’re doing as much as we need to do.

d. Speeding things up would be nice…but at least I can expect my

grandchildren to live in an equal world.

e. It really feels like we’re going backwards. We need to prioritize women

in aviation leadership.

Action is required to achieve parity

Sources: World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report (2017); Life Magazine (9 Aug. 1943)

1802

1941-1943

2018

2185

2234

Women’s economic

rights nearly nonexistent

could not own property, keep own

wages, sign contracts, or vote

% of women aviation

employees in the US

explodes from 1% to 65%

Women are de facto

excluded from leadershipComposing nearly half the work force

but less than one twentieth of it’s

uppermost management

Predicted

Economic Parity in

North America

Predicted Global

Economic Parity

How do we get there?

Eliminating Barriers to Women in Aviation

Business Leadership


Barriers to the Advancement of Women Leaders


Internal Structural

Govern-mental

Societal

Source: Federal Glass Ceiling Commission (1995)


Internal Structural

Govern-mental

Societal

Barriers to the Advancement of Women Leaders


Internal Structural

Societal

Women don’t advance

(Pipeline Barriers)

Perception aviation isn’t for women

Women aren't recruited

(restrictive outreach & recruitment practices)

Women avoid or abandon aviation


Pipeline barriers

Restrictive outreach

and recruitment practices

Internal Structural

Barriers

Source: Federal Glass Ceiling Commission (1995)

Clustering in jobs that are

not leadership track

Lack of mentoring, training, &

career development opportunities

Other internal practices that

limit advancement

Other practices that limit outreach & recruitment

to women candidates

Overly narrow focus on

conventional sources and experience

Unconscious bias in

recruitment process

Roadmap for Eliminating Internal Structural Barriers

Connect with us socially #NBAA18 | 21Sources: Federal Glass Ceiling Commission (1995); McKinsey & Co., How to accelerate gender diversity on boards, (Jan. 2017)

Seek candidates from

noncustomary

backgrounds

Set objective policies

for candidate evaluation

Cultivate long-term

relationships with

candidates

Hold managers at all

levels accountable for

progress

Include diversity in all

strategic business

plans

Set company-wide

policies that actively

promote diversity

Adopt life- and family-

friendly policies

Establish mentoring

programs

Expand women's

access to core areas of

business

Exhibit visible

commitment to

change

Expand outreach

& recruitment

practices

Reduce pipeline

barriers


Seek candidates from

noncustomary

backgrounds

Set objective policies

for candidate evaluation

Cultivate long-term

relationships with

candidates

Expand outreach

& recruitment

practices

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61%

52% 50%

36%

40%35%

39%

48% 50%

64%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

120%

All Grad Deg M. Mktg M. Acctg M. Mgmt JD MBA

Masters Degrees by Sex

Female Male

Source: Concordia University St. Paul, It’s a Woman’s Business (2017)

Who can help us get there?

Networks for Women in Aviation Leadership


Poll:

“I enjoy professional networking.”


a. Bah, humbug.

b. I know I’m supposed to, but I’ll do my best to have other plans.

c. Why not?

d. It can be fun and educational. I’m down.

e. Networking! Let’s do it! The more the better! Hey, can I give you my

card?

“A key reason why women lag behind in

leadership is that they are less likely to have

extensive networks to support and promote them

as potential leaders….Networking with more

senior representatives has its benefits. Having

access to a powerful spokesperson and building

your connections is one way of working toward

extending your network."

Connect with us socially #NBAA18 | 26Source: Vongalis-Macrow, A., Assess the Value of your Networks, Harvard Business Review (2012)

Operational Strategic


Manage current responsibilities

Boost professional development

Create leadership opportunity

Personal

Business Networks

How can businesses help women network?


Mentoring



?

Takeaways


• Aviation businesses have fewer

women in leadership than other

sectors despite correlation between

women leaders and increased

financial success

• Treat diversity as a business

strategy

• Expand outreach & recruitment,

reduce pipeline barriers, and exhibit

visible commitment to change in

order to increase women in

leadership

• Dream big • take risks • learn to love

rejection

• Create & execute a networking plan

to develop and nurture broad

operational, personal, and strategic

networks

• Engage in official mentorship

programs when available and seek

out unofficial mentors; use them for

feedback, promotion, and access

For Business For Women

• American Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Degrees by the Numbers (2016)

• Barsh, J. et al., Lessons from the leading edge of gender diversity, McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Quarterly (Apr. 2013)

• Brands, R., Fernandez-Mateo, I, Women are Less Likely to Apply for Executive Roles if They’ve Been Rejected Before, Harvard Business Review (Feb. 2017)

• Business Aviation Insider, Is a Staffing Shortage Looming? (5 Sep. 2016)

• Catalyst, 2016 Catalyst Census: Women and Men Board Directors (2017)

• Catalyst, The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women’s Representation on Boards 2004-2008 (2011)

• Catalyst, Women CEOs of the S&P 500 (2017)

• Cecchi-Dimeglio, P., How Gender Bias Corrupts Performance Reviews, and What to Do About It, Harvard Business Review (12 Apr. 2017)

• Chalaby, O., Diversity training doesn’t change people’s behaviour. We need to find out what does, World Economic Forum (1 Jun. 2018)

• Concordia University St. Paul, It’s a Woman’s Business (2017)

• Credit Suisse Research Institute, The CS Gender 3000: The Reward for Change (Sept. 2016)

• Cutler, A. and Scott, D., Speaker sex and perceived apportionment of talk, Applied Psycholinguistics (1990)

• Scott, A., et al., Tech Leavers Study: A first-of-its-kind analysis of why people voluntarily left jobs in tech, Kapor Center for Social Impact (2017)

• Eurostat, Women in Transport (2017)

• EY Center for Board Matters, 2016 Top Earners in S&P 500 Companies (2016)

• EY Corporate Governance Center, 2013 Diversity Drives Diversity (2013)

• EY, Women. Fast Forward (2015)

• Federal Glass Ceiling Commission (1995)

• Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), Application Trends Survey Report (2016)

• Hong, L., Page, S.E., Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers (2004)

• Ibarra, H, Why strategic networking is harder for women, World Economic Forum, (2012)

• International Air Transportation Association, International Women’s Day 2018—Aviation has further to go (2018)

• KPMG, KPMG’s Women’s Leadership Study: Moving Women Forward into Leadership Roles (2015)


Selected Bibliography • Lee, L., et. al, Women on Boards, MSCI (Nov. 2015)

• Life Magazine (9 Aug. 1943)

• Lopes, A., et al., Mentoring professional women in aviation and aerospace, Centre for Employment Studies Research (2015)

• Mason Hayes & Curran, Gender & Diversity in Aviation Survey (Nov. 2017)

• McKinsey & Co., How to accelerate gender diversity on boards (Jan. 2017)

• McKinsey & Co., Moving Women to the Top: McKinsey Global Survey results (Oct. 2010)

• Montgomery, B., Mapping a Mentoring Roadmap and Developing a Supportive Network for Strategic Career Advancement (2017)

• National Business Aviation Association, Strategies for Retaining Skilled Business Aviation Professionals, Business Aviation Insider (Jan/Feb 2018)

• Olson, E., ‘A Bleak Picture’ for Women Trying to Rise at Law Firms, The New York Times (24 July 2017)

• Pew Research Center, Women and Leadership, Chapter 3: Obstacles to Female Leadership (Jan. 14, 2015)

• Spender, D., Man Made Language, Pandora Press (1990)

• Thornton, G., Women in business: New perspectives on risk and reward (2017)

• Turnbull, P., Promoting the employment of women in the transport sector—obstacles and policy options (Working Paper No. 298), International LabourOffice—Geneva (Dec. 2013)

• US EEOC, S&P 500 EEO-1 data (2015)

• Uzzi, B. and Dunlap, S., How to Build Your Network, Harvard Business Review (2005)

• Vongalis-Macrow, A., Assess the Value of your Networks, Harvard Business Review (2012)

• World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report (2017)

• Zawlsza, M., Think you’re all for gender equality? Your unconscious may have other ideas, The Conversation (29 Nov. 2016)

• Qatar Airways C.E.O. Says Women Can’t Do His Job. Cue Groans and Backpedaling, The New York Times (5 Jun. 2018)

• Absence of Women in Aviation Leadership Roles on Full Display at Industry Gathering, Skrift (4 Jun. 2018)

• It’s pervasive, it’s every day’—How a history of sexism in the airline industry echoes today, PBS News Hour (11 Feb. 2018)

• ‘Where’s the captain?’—and other things passengers say to female pilots, The Telegraph, (17 Aug. 2017)

• Flight behavior: sexism still lies at the heart of the airline industry, The Guardian (31 Jan. 2014)

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