CALS Whitepapers
During our Corporate Aviation Leadership Summits, attendees sit in on multiple roundtable discussions. Each roundtable is moderated by a subject matter expert.
From those off-the-record conversations, we develop a series of in-depth reports capturing these candid industry conversations on topics such as leadership, hiring/retention, safety, risk, and the workforce challenges redefining business aviation.
CALS West 2026 - Scottsdale, AZ
Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Safety Culture in Business Aviation
While formal safety management systems (SMS) and regulatory compliance frameworks are now widespread, but is compliance alone sufficient to address today’s operational, cultural, and human performance challenges.
Managing Risk at the Enterprise Level: A New Framework for Business Aviation
Effective risk management must extend far beyond policy placement. Instead, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as a strategic framework integrates operational, financial, organizational, and reputational risk into decision-making at the highest levels.
Bridging the Gap: Managing Generational Differences in Business Aviation
How generational differences are shaping leadership, workplace culture, talent retention, and the future of the sector.
Retention under Pressure: Workforce Strategies in Business Aviation
Compensation remains an important factor, but retention challenges are increasingly driven by quality-of-life expectations, generational shifts, rising benefit costs, and the need for clearer communication about career pathways.
The Human Factor: Integrating Human Performance into Business Aviation Operations
How human limitations, decision-making, organizational pressures, and culture intersect to influence safety and operational outcomes.
CALS West 2025 - Scottsdale, AZ
Retaining Employees in the Business Aviation Workforce
Five key topics regarding retaining employees: safety culture, monetary expense, morale, organizational health and leadership.
Managing Generational Differences in the Business Aviation Workforce
The key points of discussion were: communication, culture, career development, financial expectations, and technology.
Recruiting and Hiring in Private Aviation
Recruiting, retaining, and poaching were discussed, as were the 3s's: salary, schedule and stability.
Insurance and Risk in Business Aviation
In the business aviation industry, insurance represents a significant value proposition that extends beyond simply purchasing aircraft hull and liability coverage.
CALS East 2024 - New York City
Simplifying Sustainability
Four key areas that are significant players in your sustainability efforts: SAFs, book-and-claim credits, carbon offsets, and increased recycling efforts.
How to Avoid Insurance Insufficiencies
Areas that typically cause the most insurance insecurity: wet and dry leases, single-pilot operations, pilot age/experience, and training.
In Bizav, the Laws of Gravity are just the Beginning
Focus on Truth in Leasing documentation, aircraft sharing guidelines, and rules protecting aircraft and passenger privacy.
Navigating your Most Nagging Maintenance Issues
Maintenance-related problem areas challenging operators: lagging parts availability, lack of rental engines and major components, the necessity to cut dispatch rates, and the scarcity of experienced maintainers.
Retaining is easier than recruiting
Key areas that can help stabilize a flight department’s personnel roster: a positive work/life balance, career-growth opportunities, the correct compensation package, and hiring the right people in the first place.
CALS West 2024 - Scottsdale, AZ
Solving the Compensation Conundrum
Compensation and Retention, moderated by Linda Herzog, founder of Herzog Leadership Consulting.
Dealing with Business Aviation’s Other Sustainability Challenge
Hiring and DEI, moderated by Jay Boykin, VP of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Gogo Business Aviation
Solving Real Training Problems in a Simulated World
Training Roundtable, moderated by Roger Woolsey, CEO of Million Air
Building a Multigenerational Team Requires Multidimensional Thinking
Generational Differences, moderated by Hanneke Weitering, Science and Technology Editor, AIN Media Group
Johnny Law’s Long Reach into Bizjet Operations
Legal Roundtable, moderated by Nathan R. Pietila, Shareholder, Aero Law Group PC
It’s Easier To Retain Your Employees than Replace Them
Retention, moderated by Jennifer English, Editorial Director, Business Jet Traveler magazine
There’s More to Maintenance than Fixing the Airplane
Maintenance, Moderated by Matt Thurber, Editor-in-Chief, AIN Media Group
Clearing the Air about Sustainability
A Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit (CALS) moderated by Nancy Bsales, COO of Sustainability 4AIR.
A CALS discussion moderated by Chad Trautvetter, News Editor, AIN Alerts and AIN Media Group.