Shifting from Management Effectiveness to Leadership Excellence
The Business Aviation Leadership Program, designed in collaboration with business aviation experts from VanAllen, is a four-day, fast-paced, highly-interactive program designed to help you earn a Certificate in Business Aviation Leadership from a nationally-ranked business school.
The Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business and VanAllen, a highly-respected business aviation consulting company, have combined forces to design a truly unique Business Aviation Leadership Certificate Program. World-class leadership professors and world-tested business aviation experts will help you transition from management effectiveness to leadership excellence.
The Business Aviation Leadership Program gives a strategic perspective supported by a blend of best practices in leadership development and best practices in business aviation, using multimedia presentations, industry case studies, and small-group exercises.
Why Choose Us?
Aviation and Excellence
The program focuses on personal leadership effectiveness, developing emotional intelligence, building productive teams, and creating strong links between aviation operations, business strategy and value creation. Participants consistently tell us they leave the workshop more confident and optimistic about their leadership capacity, and better equipped to engage in strategy-oriented discussions.
Certified Aviation Manager (CAM)
In accordance with the approval of the Certified Aviation Manager Governing Board, attendees of this program are entitled to four points toward completing the application to take the CAM Exam. Additionally, attendees already designated as a CAM will earn four points toward recertification.
Dynamic approach
The business leadership professors and the business aviation practitioners will deliver the program content using simulation activities, multimedia presentations, industry case studies and small-group exercises.
Learning Objectives
- Develop a competence-based leadership framework
- Understand your impact on others, and how you react in a team or leadership role
- Gain insight into your own Emotional Intelligence, and develop strategies for improvement
- Improve the quality of decisions using collaborative techniques
- Develop a methodology for driving change in your organization
- Develop peer coaching relationships that will extend beyond the week
Who Should Attend
- Business aviation professionals who want to accelerate their success, and their careers by developing their leadership knowledge and skills
- Business aviation leaders who want to transition from being a good leader to being a great leader
- Business aviation leaders who want to create greater value by better aligning their unit with the corporation’s strategy
- Business aviation departments who want to improve team performance
Prerequisites
All participants must work in the aviation industry, but do not necessarily have to work at the executive level.
Program Faculty
Don Henderson, business aviation practitioner, The VanAllen Group
Rob Williams, professor, Robinson College of Business - Georgia State University
Registration Details
April 14-18, 2025
Registration Closes - March 24, 2025, 11:59pm
Program begins Monday evening with a welcome reception, and ends mid-afternoon on Friday. Classes are held 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Location
In-person. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Pricing
$6,500 per person
Register with code TEN by January 31, 2025, to save 10%!
Fee covers all costs: tuition, books and materials, breakfast, lunch and scheduled networking events, WiFi, on-site IT support, and daily parking in the Buckhead Center parking structure. A digital certificate and badge will be awarded upon successful complThe Business Aviation Leadership Program, designed in collaboration with business aviation experts from VanAllen, is a four-day, fast-paced, highly-interactive program designed to help you earn a Certificate in Business Aviation Leadership from a nationally-ranked business school.etion of the program.
To Pay by Check/Discounts
To pay by check or to confirm eligibility and obtain a discount code, email execed@gsu.edu.
Please note: Discount and promotion codes cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, and must be entered at the time of registration. They cannot be applied retroactively. Price adjustments will not be issued. Learn more about our registration policy here.
Program Partner
VanAllen
Corporate Sponsors
Jet Aviation
Solairus Aviation