{"id":13280,"date":"2020-03-17T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:54:40","slug":"envoy-celebrates-womens-history-month-guest-speaker-vanessa-blacknall-jamison-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2020\/03\/17\/envoy-celebrates-womens-history-month-guest-speaker-vanessa-blacknall-jamison-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Envoy celebrates Women&#8217;s History Month with guest speaker, Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of\u00a0National Women\u2019s History Month, the Envoy Diversity Awareness Committee hosted a lunch and learn at Envoy Headquarters, featuring guest speaker Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13288 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/WHM-lunch-and-learn-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea McCrimmon, Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison and Linda Kunz pose at Women's History Month lunch\" \/>Vanessa currently serves as a Change Management Advisor and Leadership Coach (ACC) with the Federal Aviation Administration. She is also the first non\u2013pilot chair for the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP) Board of Directors, where she previously held positions as vice-chair and on the Board of Advisors.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa, who has over 42 years of professional aviation experience, 28 of those in a managerial role, shared her experience\u00a0with attendees and described how she\u2019s overcome challenges throughout her career. Linda Kunz, Vice President of Flight Service at Envoy introduced Vanessa to the audience.\u00a0 After explaining her background, Vanessa fielded questions, ranging in topics, including\u00a0steps for promoting personal and career growth, balancing work and family, and how to be a champion for women in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were honored to have Vanessa as an example of the different opportunities women have in our industry. At Envoy we value diversity and women play an important role in our leadership team and other important areas in our operation.\u00a0 Vanessa\u2019s example inspired our participants and helped us understand that with effort, commitment and will, anything is possible,\u201d said Andrea McCrimmon, head of the Diversity Awareness Committee at Envoy.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Vanessa for visiting our headquarters campus and for inspiring our Envoy team members!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of\u00a0National Women\u2019s History Month, the Envoy Diversity Awareness Committee hosted a lunch and learn at Envoy Headquarters, featuring guest speaker Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison. Vanessa currently serves as a Change Management Advisor and Leadership Coach (ACC) with the Federal Aviation Administration. She is also the first non\u2013pilot chair for the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":41942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}