Jeanie Friscia to Receive Schedulers & Dispatchers Outstanding Achievement and Leadership Award

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) will present longtime business aviation scheduler Jeanie Friscia with the Schedulers & Dispatchers (S&D) Outstanding Achievement and Leadership Award at the 2020 Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference (SDC2020), taking place March 10-13, 2020 in Charlotte, NC.

Over the course of her 31-year career with PepsiCo., Friscia has proven to be the gold standard in international corporate dispatching. She joined the flight department from corporate headquarters and quickly made a name for herself through professionalism and attention to detail. Her dedication to meaningful innovation – recognized with the PepsiCo Chairman’s Award for Outstanding performance – has seen her integrate a fatigue management tool into scheduling procedures, craft a new onboarding system to quickly and efficiently bring new team members up to speed, revolutionize the department’s data gathering and analysis program to better serve customer needs and develop her personal knowledge of international traveling to become one of the organization’s go-to sources for global security planning.

Friscia’s natural leadership is exemplified by her fierce advocacy for the flight crews, who she ensures are utilized properly through painstakingly documented health and safety procedures. This dedication to her colleagues’ well-being often means long days and late hours – a responsibility she takes on gladly.

Friscia’s passion for excellence extends to the industry at large. In addition to volunteering to coordinate the department’s participation in the Corporate Angel Network, she eagerly shares her vast scheduling knowledge with colleagues across the industry. She is a member of the Dispatch Leads Group out of White Plains, NY, and is a valuable presence at NBAA’s annual Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference.

Friscia is the 12th winner of this award, which was created in 2008 and recognizes individuals who have shared their business aviation industry expertise, provided extraordinary service, exhibited leadership and made significant contributions to the scheduling and dispatching function.