"Mandy Hickson has over 30 years experience within aviation. She joined the RAF in 1994, and was the first woman to fly the Tornado GR4 on the front line, where she operated in hostile environments, including patrolling the "No Fly" zone over Iraq. Since leaving the RAF, she retrained as a facilitator and coach in human factors where she draws on her experience of calculated risk-taking, decision-making under pressure and the critical role of the human in the system, to transfer vivd lessons from the cockpit to management and leadership contexts.

Mandy is now a highly demanded keynote speaker, and has been invited to share her insights with some of the most successful organisations across the World."

We sit down with Mandy and dive into her stories of entering the RAF in the 1990s and how she followed her pursued her passion of flying to secure a front seat in the RAF's frontline fast jet, the Tornado GR4. We discuss resilience, leadership, debriefing, decision making under pressure, situational awareness and much more.

Mandy Hickson website: https://www.mandyhickson.com/

Mandy Hickson book: "An Officer, Not a Gentleman: The inspirational journey of a pioneering female fighter pilot."

https://www.mandyhickson.com/aboutd55661df

Acronyms from the Podcast:

TDODAR Decision Model

Time

Diagnosis

Options

Decide

Act/Assign

Review

NUTA Situational Awareness

Notice

Understand

TA Think Ahead

Facilitative words for debriefing:

Use: why, what, where, when, how

Avoid: who

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Mandy Hickson: First Female Frontline Tornado GR4 Pilot , Human Factors Coach and Keynote Speaker