#clearedtoland Crew

Our founder is a woman of many talents: this West-Berlin native toured Europe for five years as a drummer with her band «Even Cowgirls Get The Blues». She obtained her degree in business administration with emphasis on marketing and held several leading marketing and project management positions before founding her own communication agency in Berlin.

Rahel also is a private pilot. Professionally, she landed in Switzerland almost 15 years ago, where she resides with her family and works as Head Visitor Services and Events at Zurich Airport. She has been working as a consultant for several clients, among them the international medtech company Quotient. She is also Co-Founder of the successful «Zauberpark Music and Light Festival» at Zurich Airport. In May 2021, Rahel becomes Head of the Coaching and Education Department (SEB) at the City of Zurich.

In 2018, Rahel founded #clearedtoland. In 2020 she finished her degree as a «Systemic Solution-Oriented Coach» and the degree for Change Management in September 2021. In 2022 she finished her MAS in Leadership & Management and specialized in the topics of Change Management and «True North Star Journey», the vision development and realization of organizations, teams and individuals.

Since May 2023 she is CEO of FRZ Flughafenregion Zürich. (www.flughafenregion.ch)

She is also mother of two teenagers.

There is no category for Edith. She is a helicopter private pilot who started her academic career in the United States of America, where she was awarded a full scholarship due to her athletic excellence. During her years abroad, she competes in university and professional tournaments. After studying Media and Communications and English Literature she returned to Switzerland where she also graduates as a business economist and earns a post-graduate diploma in applied psychology.

Her professional milestones include working as a Resource Deployment Manager at IBM before joining Credit Suisse as a Consultant. Most recently, she worked at Flughafen Zurich AG where – amongst others – she built up and managed the market research department. In 2014 she obtains her private pilot’s license for helicopters.

In addition, Edith is a certified coach and consultant in the area of self-management, dealing with contradictions and compatibility of work and family with a focus on stress, resilience, high-performance, comeback and change. Edith is co-founder of #clearedtoland and mother of a son. 

This crew member is a woman with a very unique career: The world of aviation fascinated Susanne from an early age on. She is barely 17 years old when she starts her aeronautical pre-training at what is today SPHAIR. While still in school she gets certified as a private pilot (including glider towing) before starting her military career. At age of 23 she becomes a professional military pilot, is holding an airline transport pilot license (ATPL) and has instructor ratings on PC-7 and Alouette III. 

In addition to her military career Susanne holds a degree in Business Administration with a focus on Communication and Marketing from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences. Today, she works part-time as a military pilot. Susanne has two children. 

Esther Zwygart is a pilot by passion and already looks back on a career of more than 25 years as a pilot with over 13’000 flying hours. She is flying the longhaul aircrafts airbus 340-300 and a340-600 and the a330.

She is an expert in topics such as leadership, change management, dealing with the unexpected, communication and decision-making – in line with the #clearedtoland success principle.

Esther is available as a speaker, sharing her experience how tools from the airline cockpit help to be prepared for the unexpected, practice an agile mindset and make better decisions!

Melissa was born in Alaska and grew up in Talkeetna.
From a young age, she grows up with aviation, where her father Don Lee ran his flight school right on idyllic Christensen Lake.
Missy gets to know all of Alaska from the air at an early age. The passionate pilot is also an adventurer and at the age of 20 climbs Mount Denali.
Her distinctive skills in mental strength, self-leadership and leadership as well as an extraordinary goal orientation support her to eventually stand on top of the highest mountain in North America and one of the “Seven Summits”, the highest mountain of each of the seven continents.

Her second passion is to support people make the most of themselves. And so her professional background is first in education. She studied education at the American College of Education in Colorado, eventually training teachers, and worked as a college professor and instructional coach for Public Education Business Coalition in Denver.

Along the way, she has completed her master’s in leadership. When the opportunity to take over the company “Alaska Floats and Skis” (www.alaskafloats.com) comes up in 2020, her great passion for aviation catches up with her again.

She becomes the owner and CEO of the company and since then has been helping pilots from all over the world achieve their personal True North Star and get trained and certified in bush flying and seaplane flying.

Missy is the mother of an 11-year-old son and lives alternately in Alaska and Colorado.

As the keynote speaker for #clearedtoland, she takes her audience on a breathtaking True North Star Journey.