Do you aspire to create and lead one of the best business aviation organizations in the industry? Are you achieving best-in-class performance in all functions within your flight department?

Does your parent company truly understand the value you provide? How would you answer the following questions?

• Is my aviation organization truly aligned with our parent company or host organization? In all ways?
• Are we clearly expressing the value we create? Or just activity?
• How does our aviation organization rank among its peers? Can I show it?
• Are we continually improving? How do I know it?
• Are we providing shareholder value? Can I express it?
• Are we structured for peak business performance?
• Are reporting tools in place to predict operational and financial results?
• Am I doing all I can to attract and retain top industry talent?

Coaching, Mentoring & Leadership Development

We assist our clients by maximizing their individual, team and overall organizational performance--and by helping aviation leaders map out a road to success. If you're interested in creating the dynamic results you envision for yourself and your organization, we can help by:

• Building your management and leadership expertise
• Improving your ability to lead a diverse and changing workforce
• Increasing your team’s capacity to assume greater and more complex responsibilities
• Focusing your energy on profit-generating activities
• Targeting and managing key strategic issues
• Developing and optimizing a profit-focused culture
• Fine-tuning a communication style for maximum impact
• Increasing retention of difficult to replace, “top tier talent"
• Refining your ability to select and hire the best talent for your company and culture
• Developing crisis management skills

Interim Leadership Engagements

Several Fortune 500 flight departments have dramatically improved their operational performance, reporting techniques and communication skills as a team--and with their reporting executivs--thanks to our Advisors who come on site for a specified period of time.

On an interim basis, we've had the privilege of working side-by-side with both the reporting executive and aviation team members to help strengthen their communication skills, business acumen and the overall infrastructure. And, we don't consider our job done until we leave the team with a well-defined road map for the future, clear operating processes and leadership skills to sustain future success.

• Improvement in business communications between aviation professionals and the host organization, whereby the two groups learn to speak each other’s language.
• Alignment of the aviation team, ensuring all members are involved with and committed to the transformation of strategy, safety requirements, processes, communication and metrics.
• Quantification of Value-Creation Metrics, demonstrating the value the aviation organization creates for the company or host organization.
• IS-BAO registration and implementation of a Safety Management System, enhancing security and increasing passenger confidence and satisfaction.
• Leadership development, coaching professionals to heightened levels of business acumen, identifying and leveraging personal and professional strengths as well as enhancing communication skills.
• Achievement of corporate financial performance, ensuring the aviation group is using and managing its assets in support of the host organization’s goals.

In nearly every leadership engagement, we typically find that the answers we’re looking for are already among the aviation leaders and individual team members. Our role then becomes one of breaking down barriers, opening up dialogues, setting the direction and providing resources to harness the tremendous potential that already exists within.

If you'd like to know if one of our advisors would be a good fit for your organization, let's hold a complementary discussion.

"Gray Stone Advisors was able to quickly assess our operation and provide the assistance we so desperately needed. The process, definition and development brought into the department have played a very important role in reshaping our organization.

This has been a very fast-paced transformation and we would not have been able to complete our IS-BAO Stage I audit in such a short time frame without the team. If all flight departments had the opportunity to work with an organization such as Gray Stone Advisors, there would be nothing but “Best in Class” departments. The service they provide is invaluable and I cannot thank them enough for all that they have done for CSC Transport. I look forward to the future of this department and maintaining a strong working relationship with Gray Stone Advisors."

Phil Stang, Vice President of Business Aviation, CSC Transport (Flight Department for Cablevision)

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