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About Me

Christina Cassotis.

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My goal is to share what I've learned so there is more good impact done by good companies and organizations.

But before all that? I flunked out of college. On purpose. It was the first time I made a decision based on what I needed, not what would please everyone else. I came back six years later, got my bachelor’s at 29, and my MBA at 49. I’ve built my path brick by brick, curiosity-first.

I’m the current CEO of Pittsburgh International Airport, where I led and am still leading a transformation so bold the industry stopped calling us “left for dead” and started calling us a model. I've served on publicly traded boards, been through a hostile board takeover — and yet, I've also been mistaken for the flight attendant when I walk into business class.

I’ve spent my life turning complex, broken systems into high-functioning ecosystems from inside the C-suite and on the frontlines.

Meet Christina Cassotis.

Real talk, real quirks.

I love discovering local food markets wherever I go. Cooking and feeding people is my love language.

If I weren’t the CEO of an airport, I’d be turning around a baseball team in desperate need of transformation.

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received? “If you know people, you know business. If you don’t know people, you don’t know business.”

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I’m terrified of heights and claustrophobic… but I love 14-hour flights.

Walking and yoga keep me grounded.

My guilty pleasure? A Law & Order marathon on a rainy weekend where I don’t get off the couch for at least four hours.

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Commanding the room often comes easy.

You’re the one everyone turns to when it matters. The steady hand in the storm. The name that gets whispered when things need fixing. You’ve built success, status, and trust, but deep down, you may be feeling that something is off.

It’s not burnout. It’s not failure. It’s the quiet ache of knowing you could be doing more, if only they would listen, you could get them to understand, or someone would take the risk with you.

But sometimes? It feels like you're holding the whole thing together with duct tape and chicken wire.

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You’re not lost. You’re not broken. You’re just in a new kind of complexity: one that old playbooks can’t solve.

Maybe your team looks strong on paper but feels like it’s slipping through your fingers. Maybe your board is pushing in one direction while your gut pulls you in another. Maybe you’re starting to question the very instincts that got you here in the first place.