Creating winning teams: Lessons from sports and airlines
Host: Wendy Stonefield
Guest: Dan Jowett, Senior Manager - Airline Operations & Engineering at Ethiad
How can sports shape leadership? In this episode, Dan Jowett, Senior Manager at Etihad Airlines, shares how coaching elite football teams influenced his leadership style. From his civil service roots to British Airways and Etihad, Dan’s journey offers insights into resilience, emotional intelligence, and team dynamics.
Discover how diverse “rainbow teams” drive innovation, why asking the right questions matters, and how aligning teams toward a common goal fosters success. Dan also unpacks the role of trust, managing change, and how data-driven innovation is transforming aviation.
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