I am delighted that a woman has reached this pinnacle in Japan, a country where, according to the Global Gender Gap report, only 12.9% of senior and leadership posts are held by women. Although this may be unusual in Japan, it’s not surprising that this has occurred within the aviation industry. Why? Let me share with you a deeper cut of why Tottori has received this job.
Aviation is one of the few industries that willingly learns from mistakes. It has a culture of dealing with errors and sharing of experiences in a transparent manner. In short, it is an industry that learns from its mistakes. It’s no exaggeration to say that every plane crash makes the next flight safer.
This is why Tottori has this job. She is a calm, quiet and well experienced woman who, throughout her career, employed the key rules of feminine leadership—even when she was a mere flight attendant. Owning your mistakes and openly learning from them isn’t always easy in the mad world of hustle culture. But it can be successful, as Tottori has just proven.
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Mitsuko Tottori has just the first woman President of Japan Airlines
