WRITTEN BY Sheryl Barden on December 22, 2023

AINsight: Reflections and Celebrations

Year end is the perfect time for a personal and professional audit As the year draws to a close, it’s a natural time for those of us in business aviation—or

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WRITTEN BY Jill Henning on November 17, 2023

AINsight: Curating a Team of Experts

Leadership isn’t about single-handedly wielding every card in the deck. It’s about curating a team of experts, as Sheryl Barden explains in her guest column for Aviation International News. In

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WRITTEN BY Sheryl Barden on October 20, 2023

AINsight: NBAA-BACE 2023 . . . It’s About People

Sheryl Barden (API) moderated a panel about successful strategies for hiring low-time pilots and ensuring their success. Panelists included: Kirk Mies (AbbVie), Kim Kissh (AbbVie), Greg Burris (Masco), and Alison

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WRITTEN BY Sheryl Barden on September 22, 2023

AINsight: The Overlooked Maintenance Crisis

The Overlooked Maintenance Crisis In business aviation, we’re often quick to discuss the soaring compensation of pilots and the shortage of talent. But behind the scenes, over in the maintenance

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WRITTEN BY Sheryl Barden on August 21, 2023

AINsight: Don’t Get Burned by Burnout!

Burnout can lead to staff departures Recently, an industry friend called to talk about possibly looking for a new job. He told me that he’s had a great experience working

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WRITTEN BY Jennifer Pickerel on August 17, 2023

Zoe’s Story: How an Aspiring Pilot Handled Her Fear of Failure

Despite the fact that I’ve worked in business aviation for nearly 20 years, I do not come from an “aviation family.” Flying is not “in our blood,” and we’re not

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WRITTEN BY Sheryl Barden on July 21, 2023

AINsight: Training Contract Ethics & Accountability

I’ve never been a fan of the pilot training contract. Meaning a legal document that binds a pilot to a flight department for a set period of time after earning

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WRITTEN BY Sheryl Barden on June 30, 2023

AINsight: Navigating the Pilot Training Issue

Pilot simulator photo courtesy of CAE via AINonline for Barden’s June 2023 AINsight column: Navigating the Pilot Sim Training Slot Issue Not too long ago, several aviation directors asked me

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WRITTEN BY Jennifer Pickerel on June 29, 2023

How I Got My Groove Back

IWF’s Leadership Fellows Program class of 2022-23. I love my job, I really do. But sometimes we all fall into a predictable rhythm—one that lulls us into complacency and causes

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