Formula 1 is the perfect “bridge” to explain aviation innovation. But both share the same engineering culture: extreme precision, extreme safety, extreme performance and zero tolerance for failure. F1 is extremely popular. It operates as a global media network, not just a sport, with billions of cumulative viewers, tens of millions per race, and massive attention across Europe. Formula 1 reached a total cumulative audience of 1.83 billion in the most recent season, it’s largest in five year...
Panels are theatre. Five experts on a stage do not create five times the insight. They create one‑fifth of each, and five times the boredom. They turn leaders into polite conversationalists and audiences into hostages. Panel sessions are “light talk shows” rather than strategic sessions. They turn strategy into small talk. A movement cannot be built on small talk. Panels are tea parties masquerading as insight with polite, lukewarm communication. There are smarter conference session concepts. A...
Some national business aviation associations lead. Some follow. Most drift. BBGA – United Kingdom may be considered the most professionally run national association in Europe. BBGA behaves like a business. If EBAA wants to lead Europe, it must also behave like a business. BBGA is not bigger; it is better designed. EBAA should adopt that design at continental scale. BBGA delivers more with less — EBAA delivers less with more. If EBAA were a business, it would not survive the quarter. If it w...
EBAA is not suffering from a lack of intelligence or good intentions. It is suffering from a lack of relevance. If EBAA does not change, the European business aviation ecosystem will fracture, decentralize, and rebuild itself without EBAA. This is not a threat. It is the natural behavior of an ecosystem when its central node fails. What happens if EBAA does not change is an ecological inevitability. It is not hypothetical. It’s time to wake up.In a southern European country not to be mentioned b...
When EBACE was cancelled, the total measurable, quantifiable economic impact is an estimated €23–42 million, plus the unquantified strategic losses. So now what? Let’s start with some numbers. EBAA lost its largest revenue engine. EBACE historically generated 40–60% of EBAA’s annual operating revenue. This is the typical percentage for associations with a single flagship event. In the past EBAA explicitly stated that EBACE “helped generate the financial means that enable the association to...
EBAA’s ego failure mode forms a system of self-importance, where the association confuses administration with leadership, ritual with relevance, and legacy with legitimacy. Those modes ultimately hollowed out EBACE and now threatens the organization’s future. EBAA clung to EBACE as a symbol of identity rather than a product requiring reinvention. Legacy became the anchor that drowned it. The meta-reason for the failure of institutional narcissism is that an association becomes more invested...
The uncomfortable truth is that in the last 5+ years EBACE has lost altitude and this year it has crashed. Not because the industry is shrinking. Not because Europe lacks ambition. If EBACE were a commercial brand, it would have been killed years ago. It has no story, no soul. A brand cannot be built like a policy paper. It should have been re‑launched years ago. Based on 2024–2025 reporting and leadership statements, EBAA over-relied on a single event that lost strategic purpose. Suggested...
Movement is the message. If EBAA fails to produce a credible, future‑proof EBACE concept within the next months, it signals to the membership that EBAA has lost strategic direction, industry leadership, and possibly relevance. The membership’s reaction would not be mild—they would fragment, defect, or begin building alternatives.A failure to reinvent EBACE with a new concept would communicate damaging messages. Members would interpret the silence as proof that EBAA cannot articulate a...
The phrase “on steroids” is shorthand for exactly that: amplified beyond what is natural, necessary, or strategically useful. A reality phenomenon in the event world is when a conference becomes so oversized, overproduced, or overstuffed that its scale stops being a strength and starts being a signal of bloat, overcompensation, or misaligned ambition. It’s not a summit — it’s a bloat parade. All volume, no voltage. A maximalist event with a minimalist outcome. Bigger than necessary, smaller tha...
A feasibility study! It is the discipline that turns vision into victory. A feasibility study, that is the moment of brutal honesty before the romance of execution. It is the disciplined act of asking, “Should we do this?” before anyone wastes a euro or dollar proving that we shouldn’t. A feasibility study takes a concept and strips it of wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy, and enthusiasm is not a business model. EBACE as well as EBAA may have to be reinvented. EBACE once m...
Initiator at CARIBAVIA and RIVIERAVIA conferences.
A Specialist in Strategic Communication – i.e. communicating essential information to selected audiences and to ensure that the communication is noticed by the senses, sticks in the mind, and affects the thinking, behavior, or activities of the audience.
Combine this with his current activities as event organizer, award judge, author, editor, columnist, copy writer, and you may conclude that he is a source of power for corporate communication.
