Speaker Esther Zwygart

Esther Zwygart loves flying. And working with her teams - both in the cockpit and with the cabin crew.

Esther Zwygart is very familiar with communication and leadership tasks and she always has to give clear and specific instructions, even in stressful situations. The safety of the crew and passengers is always the top priority for the pilot team.

Women have also been flying airliners professionally for around 35 years - yet the proportion of female pilots worldwide is only around five percent. Esther Zwygart is one of them. She learned to fly at the age of 17 and has been hooked on flying ever since.

The pilot, who has been flying around the world for a major German airline for several years, used to regularly go into raptures when looking out of the cockpit window at the small islands appearing below her. Today, she is not only passionate about flying, she also helps people to overcome their fear of flying through fear of flying coaching.

Esther Zwygart Lecture topics

- Team Building & Trust (Together Everybody Achieves More)
- Decision Making: Decision Making under time critical conditions
- Communication with the team: Clarity creates leeway
- Personal responsibility - teamwork & dealing with change
- FORDEC: The checklist for the unforeseen - do you have a plan B at hand?
- Ready for Take-Off? Or - How do you prepare your everyday life in the company?

Esther Zwygart began her professional flying career over 25 years ago on the two short-haul turboprops Saab 340 and 2000. She has been flying the Airbus family of aircraft since 1999. After the grounding of Swissair, the young pilot initially devoted herself to her family and her first child. In 2005, she continued her career at Austrian Airlines and has now been working for a renowned German airline since 2007. In 2010, she switched to the long-haul fleet and has been flying the A330, A340-300 and A340-600 models ever since.

From propeller plane to big bird

Esther Zwygart: "My favorite destinations are Cape Town in winter, Vancouver in summer and Hong Kong at any time." She spends one to four days at each destination, exploring the cities with her crew or friends and going on hikes in the surrounding area, for example.

Immediately applicable knowledge and tools from the cockpit.

She loves her job and lives the "dream of flying". There is no routine in everyday life, because every flight is different. There are always unexpected incidents that require you to keep a cool head. Even if you're flying somewhere over the Atlantic and the next accessible airport is still a long way away...

Take to the skies with Esther Zwygart and enjoy the flight over the continents and oceans. Her wealth of experience in the cockpit with the topics of leadership, communication and decision-making make her presentations so valuable and special. Benefit from this - you can implement the learnings directly in your company.

Fasten your seatbelt.

Book pilot and female speaker Esther Zwygart for presentations and workshops with The WOMEN SPEAKER Agency.