Topics :

Leadership Spirit: Principles and Success Stories

Leaders in Aviation: Sharing Knowledge and Best Practices

Safety is Everyone's Business: A View from the Other Side 

Leadership in the Cockpit: Redefining a Captain's Role

Optimize Your Team: Critical Steps to Peak Performance

“Yes we can” – Leading through change

Identifying and describing the tools of leading through change.

Safety Management and Risk Management

Mental Toughness

Speakers Include:

Michael O'Brien; Art Booth

Terry Dillon; Gerry Binnema; Catherine Roome; Gary Grass

Bill Yearwood; Capt Tanya Sprathoff; Kirsten Stevens

See detailed information on speakers below.

Ticket Price includes lunch. 

Thank you to our luncheon sponsor - Vancouver Airport Authority!

Parking is free.  If you are a Forum guest you will be sent a link to register for free parking.  There will also be dashboard parking passes available at the registration desk.

SPEAKER INFORMATION

JUST ADDED - E. Michael O'Brien

Corporate Secretary and Vice President, Strategic Planning and Legal Services

Vancouver Airport Authority

 

Since joining the Airport Authority in 1992, Michael O'Brien has been variously responsible for legal services, strategic planning, government relations, communications, community and environmental issues. He is a member of the Bar in British Columbia and Ontario. Mr. O’Brien serves as a Director of the Fraser Basin Council, Vice Chair of the Gateway Theatre in Richmond and is Chair of the Richmond Oval Corporation.

 

JUST ADDED - Art Booth

Chief Pilot, Harbour Air

Leadership in the Cockpit

Art Booth has been employed at Harbour Air since Feb/01 and based out of Nanaimo. While with the company he has been active on the safety committee, a training captain, a pilot representative (representing the pilots to management) and an authorized check pilot by Transport Canada for doing PPC’s on the Turbine Otters. Art has recently been chosen for the Chief Pilot position at Harbour Air and is currently in transition.

 

Flying commercially since 1984 in different parts of northern Ontario, Prince Rupert and the south coast of B.C. his first introduction to airplanes was with his Dad who owned various types of aircraft recreationally (all float planes) and later started his own air service in Nakina Ontario with Beavers, Cessnas and Otter aircraft where Art was employed for several years.

 

“So in a nutshell I have been in floatplanes since I have been in diapers.”

 

 

Terry Dillon

Mental Toughness

We are living in extraordinary times that demand a different way of thinking. It will not be sufficient to simply be technically proficient at your job. The ability to sustain performance continues to be as much about a developed mental approach as it is about expertise or job related capability. Mental Toughness is about maximizing your effectiveness through times of personal and professional pressure. We will look at what recent research says about Mental Toughness and how it can be developed.

Terry Dillon MBA, Terry brings a unique perspective on performance and what it takes to create conditions for achieving sustainable success. He was an elite athlete for ten years; he rowed for Great Britain competing at two Olympic Games. In parallel with his rowing career Terry was a teacher. He taught science and physics working in both the private and public sectors. In 1999 he left teaching to study for an MBA at Cranfield School of Management and went on to work for Barclays Bank as a Management Consultant. Terry has been a coach and performance consultant since 2003 working Worldwide for clients such as Coke Cola, 3M and Nestle. He brings a strong track record of applying his experience to help leaders achieve results.

 

Gerry Binnema

Safety Management and Risk Management

Although risk management is defined as an element of an SMS, both are derived from the same concepts. This presentation will look at the conceptual foundations of both, in an effort to understand the applications, by grasping the concepts they are built on.

Gerry began his aviation career as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer after completing flying training at Trinity Western University, in Langley, BC, and AME training at Centennial College, in Scarborough, Ontario. Since then he has worked in a variety of sectors of the aviation industry both as a pilot and an AME. His resume includes overseas work as a pilot/AME with a mission organization, a charter pilot, a flight instructor, an aircraft accident investigator and a Safety Officer with Transport Canada.

Gerry has a Masters Degree in Aerospace Science, System Safety through Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He has also studied human factors with Dr. Dekker of Lund University in Sweden. Gerry has recently launched his own company, providing training and advice in the areas of human factors and safety management.

 

Bill Yearwood - Pacific Regional Manager of Aviation for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada

He started flying fixed-wing aircraft at age 13 on a sugar estate in South America, but evolved to fly rotary-wing aircraft for industry;

Operations included: Heli-logging, Med-evac, Corporate, Arctic and Off-shore explorations, Flight training, and LSTC flight testing;

During a stint for Transport Canada, he was an Air Carrier inspector, helped draft the CARs, and managed System Safety. He joined the TSB in 1999, and has worked on several aviation occurrence investigations.  Bill lives in Vancouver, and has given up motor racing for bicycle racing.

 

Catherine Roome                  

Leadership Spirit: Principles and Success Stories

Catherine Roome is Chief Operating Officer for the BC Safety Authority (BCSA) - a risk management company with 280 employees which is committed to public safety, and is a 2007 Canadian Top 100 Employer, and 2007 & 2008 British Columbia Top 50 Employer.

The BCSA administers the safety regulations for boilers, electrical and gas installations, ski lifts, amusement rides, elevators and escalators, commuter rail and industrial railways. If it has wires, pressure or moving parts, we want to make sure it’s safe to work and play around. Catherine was Vice President, Engineering when she joined the BCSA in 2005, and as Chief Operating Officer she received Business in Vancouver’s “Influential Women in Business” award in 2007.

An electrical engineer, married to Bruce, Catherine has two children: Tavia and Rowan, ages 12 and 14.  Catherine is inspired by gardening, the performing arts, running and sailing.  She believes passionately that our generation’s responsibility is to bring forward new ideas. Her leadership style is to “encourage that unique brilliance and potential that exists in everyone.” Catherine has a fairly unhealthy drive for results, is working on letting go of control, and is a perpetual optimist.

 

Gary Grass                           

“Yes we can” – Leading through change

Identifying and describing the tools of leading through change.  How do we keep the "fires' burning through challenge and adversity we face as leaders in the world today.  Is the leadership act selfless or selfish, are the tools intuitive or are they found in our existing personal behavioural patterns?  This year I help shape a discussion on - can a manager lead?

Enthusiastic about beginning his third decade in aviation – Gary holds a CPL, M1/M2 fixed and rotary wing AME license, teaching credentials and has been entrenched in all levels of aviation safety, training and operations management for most of his career.

He earned Safety Management credentials in 1986 while serving in the Canadian Air Force and enjoyed the privilege of teaching four years in Canada’s most prestigious post secondary aircraft maintenance institution, the British Columbia Institute of Technology.  

He taught two years at Canada’s most successful IFR school, Vancouver Pro IFR, and has lectured on Safety Management, Quality Programs and his experience as a Martin Mars pilot and engineer at many aviation conferences including Oshkosh in 2007 and again in 2008.  

He is the Vice President, and holds an elected Board and Editorial Chair position with the Pacific AME Association (PAMEA) and is a member of COPA, the EAA, and Warbirds of America. He is the SMS and Quality Manager for Omega Aviation, one of western Canada’s largest aircraft management companies.

 

Capt Tanya Sprathoff                

Leadership in the Cockpit

Capt Sprathoff joined the Air Force in 1989 having already earned her glider and private pilot licences. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Military College, she earned her military pilot’s wings in 1994.

Her first posting took her to 14 Wing Greenwood in Nova Scotia where she served as an instructor and flew the CP140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft. She was the second woman in the history of the Air Force to become a Maritime Patrol Crew Commander, which is a top category for a maritime patrol pilot.

Just after the birth of her first child in 2002, Capt Sprathoff was posted to Portage la Prairie were she helped multi-engine students achieve their wings as course instructor.  She was posted to 19 Wing Comox, British Columbia in 2005, now with two kids in tow. She continues to serve as the Plans Officer in Wing Operations where her job is to ensure that all flying units have the tools and information they need to achieve mission success.

 

Kirsten Stevens                      

Safety is Everyone's Business:  A View from the Other Side

The responsibility for safety, from the passenger perspective

Kirsten came by her interest in aviation safety as a result of personal tragedy.  Following the hypothermic drowning death of her husband in a floatplane crash in 2005, Kirsten began researching the air taxi/floatplane industry in an effort to understand what happened, and to achieve closure.  

Over the last four years, she has established contact and consulted with a wide range of experts, officials, and common workers in both government and private sectors.  She has become a source of support and information for other families in similar circumstances, as well as those interested in improving air taxi safety across the country.

A self-proclaimed “Advocate for the Safety of Workers Transported by Air”, Kirsten lives on Vancouver Island with her three children aged fifteen, eight and four.

 

Teara Fraser                      

Master of Ceremonies

After a series of crushing personal losses, Teara traveled to Africa in hopes that she may stumble upon some meaning and clarity.  While in a small airplane for the very first time at 30 years old, as she accelerated down the runway her “heart came to life”.  She returned to Canada to fly her first solo flight in February of 2002. Within one year her Commercial Pilot’s Licence was in hand. Currently, Teara is employed by Hawkair Aviation as a First Officer on the Dash 8.  A deep commitment to safety inspired her to found the Aviation Leadership Forum.

Teara believes that “you only get what you give” so is an active member of her community.  She is the President of Women in Aviation Sea to Sky Chapter.  

She devotes her time to many worthwhile organizations and is committed to bringing the message to youth and those who have lived with adversity, that there are unimaginable possibilities.

Thank you to our GENEROUS sponsors ! 

Vancouver Airport Authority

and Hawkair

Best Western Richmond Hotel & Convention Centre
7551 Westminster Hwy
Richmond, British Columbia V6X
Canada

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM (PT)

Women in Aviation Sea to Sky Chapter and the Aviation Leadership Foundation