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C-Suite Standards

C-Suite Standards

By: Blake Falls
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C-Suite Standards is a cross-industry leadership series built around one question: what does it actually take to lead at the highest level when everything around you is being rebuilt? Every season, we go deep into a different industry — starting with aviation, then energy, defense, healthcare, logistics, and beyond — finding the executives, founders, and operators who are navigating modernization in real time and getting them to be honest about what's actually happening. Not the press release version. The real one. What the workforce crisis looks like from the inside. Where the C-suite is falling behind. What the next decade demands that the current generation of leadership isn't ready for. If you run something, build something, or are trying to understand where the industries that move the world are actually headed — this is the conversation.

2026 Blake Falls
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  • He Got Denied By The U.S. Gov't At 14. Then He Changed Aviation Forever.

    He Got Denied By The U.S. Gov't At 14. Then He Changed Aviation Forever.
    Jul 1 2026

    Jamail Larkins started with nothing in aviation. No connections. No money. No family in the industry. At 12 he was washing planes to get seat time. At 14 he petitioned the U.S. government to let him fly solo — they said no — so he went to Canada and did it anyway.

    Today he's the FAA's first Ambassador for Aviation and Space Education, the founder of AviationStart, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and the person behind over $20 million in annual aviation scholarships. He's spoken to 60,000 students about what this industry actually looks like from the inside. He testified before Congress about what the FAA's certification backlog is costing the industry. And he built a multimillion dollar aviation business from the ground up.

    In Episode 1 of C-Suite Standards, we go where most aviation conversations don't — into what's actually broken in the pipeline, why the C-suite keeps treating workforce development as a tomorrow problem, and what it's going to take to build an industry that actually protects the people trying to enter it.

    This is the conversation aviation has needed to have publicly for a long time.
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