Sarah Wilkin with FGA Sports will start a program for female entrepreneurs, working on the business side of football, to develop their business skills, network and startups in a program called ‘Dream big’. The program will start on 23rd of October initially online for 12 female business owners working within football. Women in Football said …
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Gender balance in aviation
Sarah Wilkin, founder and CEO of Fly Green Alliance (FGA), was a recent guest at the Sustainability Aerospace & Defence Pioneers podcast by the legal firm, Bird&Bird, where she talked about her underlying motivations for setting up FGA. Amongst these was the life long desire to set up her own business, to gain seniority and …
What is respect in the workplace today?
As part of our diversity, equity and inclusion work we want to share an article we have written based on our response to recent tabloid headlines, LinkedIn virals, political news and day-to-day office politics. This is a collection of our thoughts on the ‘unwritten rules‘ of civil behaviour in the workplace. We welcome more thoughts …
Diversity and Inclusion in Aviation
Yesterday we attended an event by Avi – ALL – Aviation for All on the topic of D&I. As an industry that has around 20% of women there is still a way to go on balance and diversity. It was an interesting event which discussed culture, mentoring, biases, language used, education of younger people, #girlsinSTEM and …
How do we support women to work and be mothers?
“Gender equality in the workplace is key to unlocking significant business growth, and driving positive social and environmental impacts, according to Better Leadership, Better World: Women Leading for the Global Goals” – World Business Council for Sustainable Development. It has been recognised by Harvard Business Review that increasing senior women in the workforce supports innovation and sustainability. In …
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How do you turn resistance into flow?
Turn unsubscribe, delete, not a priority, pending, no reply into proactive and productive ways forward. This article is written from our founders experience from the last 3 years of conversations with all types of sectors. I’ve discovered it’s time, understanding, respect for each other’s agendas and friendly approaches. Our role at FGA is to encourage …
Carbon fasting on earth day!
For Earth Day we want to post about our individual acts of ‘carbon fasting’ which all contribute to emission reduction and environmental goals in our own lives. Like in the ‘5 and 2’ diet where you fast for 2 days and eat normally on the rest, we think that this thinking could work when trying …
DEI in the workplace
= Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Most of us have a good grasp of diversity and inclusion. So what is equity? Equity is about fairness, justice and impartiality in procedure, processes and distribution by institutions or in systems. It’s about having and feeling you have the same ability to get promoted, to contribute and have the …
Happy IWD 2021 from the FGA ladies and baby!
For International Women’s Day 2021 we want to introduce you to some research and findings which we hope will support the workplace going forward. We tend to look to the positive and see that amongst the stress the pandemic has brought, it has also brought new ideas, is reshaping working policies, increased environmental awareness, changed …
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FGA’s mental and neuro health project work
As part of our commitment at FGA we are actively supporting mental health and wellbeing, and have integrated and acknowledged this in our FGA Travel Smart programme. We believe in ‘put your own mask on, before you help others’ so we look after ourselves and our team physically and mentally, especially recently when times have …
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