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Kenneth Cerney, HAA Pilot (RET)

Owner
Leader-Team Dynamics LLC
Merrill, Wisconsin

Lieutenant Colonel (RET) Ken Cerney enlisted as an Infantryman in the National Guard in 1978 while still a senior in high school. He went on to serve as an Army Aviator, operations officer, and commander, retiring 28 years later as Chief of Leadership Training for the Army Reserve. After retirement he created Leader Team Dynamics LLC to teach leaders and their teams the role personalities play in the dynamics of team collaboration. This remained a part time passion until recently, when he retired a second time after 16+ years of full time flying single pilot VFR and dual pilot IFR in 206L1/L4, 407, S76C+, and EC135-P2+/P3H helicopters.

Over the past 10 years he has taken his knowledge of personality strengths and weaknesses and combined it with his experience teaching CRM/AMRM. Seeing a connection between personalities, decision making, and stress in helicopter crashes, he began focusing primarily on crew/team decision making in times of significant stress, especially in helicopters. He has been teaching safety classes at AMTC and HAI Heli-Expo almost every year since.

With the help of the developers of the Risk Type Compass®, he conducted a study and wrote 2 white papers on risk tolerance in helicopter pilots and air medical crew members. Ken regularly engages experts in the psychological type, stress resiliency, and team building realms about his thoughts and conclusions as he looks at helicopter/HAA accident reports for clues into how personalities, hazardous attitudes, and stress can derail good decision making at critical moments. Now starting his 3rd career, he is bringing his unique perspective of leadership, communication and decision making, as well as developing a class on crew and team dynamics with an upcoming course for all first responders at his local tech college.

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