Leadership Model

Question 1

What is your working style?

Answer 1

MySignatureThemes:
Achiever - everything I do needs to be measurable and tangible. If it is not obvious I will create personal KPI’s in order to measure my performance. Every day needs to be productive. With my Focus I am always re-aligning my activities based on current priorities. And I am an Activator - I put ideas into action.
I strive in a healty competitive environment which brings positive dynamic to the team. Learning by doing combined with fail fast and learn fast applying the design thinking approach which puts the human in the center of thought.
I dislike routine, like to work autonomiously combined with a strong collaboration with my fellow team members.

Question 2

Most sucessfull experience?

Answer 2

Positive feedback from a SmallPlanet after my most comprehensive maintenance cost analysis.

Question 3

Most valuable experience?

Answer 3

Participation to the Airline Cost Conference in Geneve where I gave a speech on Operational Interruption Cost Assessment.

Question 4

Most pleasant experience?

Answer 4

Speeches at Fleet Perf Users Club & EnableOps Training to teach the ordering officers how to use this knowledge based IT tool which I did in the 4x languages (Spanish in Spain, English in Filton, German in Hamburg and French in Toulouse).

Question 5

What do I enjoy most about my work? What do I like about my current position ?

Answer 5

The opportunity for continuous growth that this position provides combined with direct collaboration with our customers.

Question 6

What gets you out of bed in the morning and to work?

Answer 6

MyBelief: Let me explain to you what travelling means to me. It means spreading your life all over the world. Not only does it enable you to discover other languages and cultures, it also helps you to develop your mind to understand that there is not only one truth in the world, to tolerate others than yours and to even teach others about yours. My passion in travelling lies in decoding each others truth to find mutual understanding. Via air transportation Airbus facilitates this cross border exchange and therewith naturally fosters peace education.

MyMotivationDayToDay: My inner strive as an Achiever to deliver the next valuable output on my to do list in combination with the teamwork with my colleagues! Example: Focus on DMC Toolset feedback or Conference speech prep.

Question 7

What is Strategy 2.0 most important / active topic in your daily work?

Answer 7

Data is the oil of the 20th century: “Our life should not be driven by data they should be empowered by it.” Amazon Chief Scientist: Andreas Weigend.
What about implementing a token/coin as cryptocurrency recognising the value of our customer data? The better the data quality the higher the nb of tokens recieved. e.g. for Maintenance Cost. Tokens could then be used to get discounts on Services which leads to increased Services Revenues.

Question 8

What is Airbus vision and Strategy ?

Answer 8

We make it fly!

Question 9

What was the most innovative contribution to the company?

Example where you demonstrated innovation in your daily business ?

Answer 9

Enable Operations - knowledge based GPS

Question 10

How do you think we could encourage creative thinking within the organization?

Answer 10

Create “Communities of Interest” out of diverse group of people and provide them with time to work on their ideas.

Question 11

State an innovation you have been involved with; how did you measure the benefits?

Answer 11

Cabin Function Availability - I created the concept of this new Fleet Performance Indicator.
360°Maintenance Economics Radar - holistic view of Maintenance Economics.

Question 12

bout our Share Price and name some things that may have affected it in the last 6 months? Why is it important?

Answer 12

he share price indicates the value and caN regulates the liquidity of the company. It is at 99.x€ per share at the moment.
Past Impact: Decision of collaboration with Bombardier on C-Series, neo engine issues, 1.3bn impact charge on A400M
Future impact: Reduction of A380 production rate
External: French election, oil prices
Internal: Compliance topics
Higher oil prices and
better performing global markets, driven by the
US tax reform, further drove Airbus shares u

Question 13

What are the main internal/external challenges facing Airbus in coming years

Answer 13

Financial Market risks
Business related risks
Legal risks
Industrial & Environmental risks

• Support an aging fleet!
• Embrace and make use of Digitalisation

Question 14

What do you consider today as your major contribution to the company?

Answer 14

Most valuable: Development of EnableOps - knowledge-based IT tool. Satair is not using it and some things are going wrong due to lack of knowledge at the beginning of the process.

Question 15

Major success you had with a customer?

Answer 15

A350-1000 VIR Atlantic Sales Campaign 2016 and collaboration with Small Planet on their Maintenance Cost preparing the grounds for sales of services & A/C’s

Question 16

When was the last time you said No to a business request? Who made the request? Why did you say No? How did you handle it. What was the outcome?

Answer 16

Even if the answer to the original request would be No I tend to find and propose a solution to which I can say yes.
E.g. Support the project on collaborative platform where I did not have the resources to carry out a detailed OI Cost customization due to Level 3 - I used the outcome I had already prepared for the OI Cost update which served the need as well.

Question 17

What is your greatest achievement?

Answer 17

Development and creation of EnableOps.

Question 18

What was you biggest failure, and what did you learn about it ?

Answer 18

EnableOps was not really implemented by my successor. MEP not launched in North America due to resource constraints announced by the CSD JetBlue&raquo_space; I tried to work together with services to have a common approach and communicated requirements. I did not follows up due to other priorities.

Question 19

What is the biggest/hardest challenge you had to face in your career so far and how did you take it up?

Answer 19

Out of the internal Airbus comfort zone into Airline environment being THE Airbus Focal Point: Steering Committee of Airline Cost Management Group of IATA and presenting our OI Cost Assessment which turned out well as they invited me to give a speech at the annual Airline Cost Conferenc in Geneva.

Question 20

What are your strengths? Weaknesses?

Answer 20

S: Learner, Achiever, Activator, Competition, Focus. | W: Too ambituous which can get frustrated sometimes.

Question 21

Who are you ? What are your key drivers in Life ? Where do you go ?

Answer 21

Extroverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving

Question 22

What have been the most important steps in your career?

Answer 22

Moving to my current job which I believe rounded up the right toolset for this position!