MEDIA RELEASE

Hawaiian Airlines has announced the appointment of Beryl Fajardo to the company’s newly created position of director of leadership development and training.

Beryl Fajardo

Fajardo is primarily responsible for developing a strategic leadership curriculum that helps to strengthen the overall capabilities of management and supports the company’s business objectives. She is working with Hawaiian’s senior management team and collaborating with learning and development organizations to create and implement programs that help improve Hawaiian’s business operations.

“Beryl brings to Hawaiian a high level of expertise in management and corporate training that will help us become more efficient with our operations and provide more opportunities for professional growth within the company,” said Barbara Falvey, senior vice president of human resources for Hawaiian.

Fajardo comes to Hawaiian after spending 27 years in positions specializing in management training and employee professional development for high-tech companies in California’s Silicon Valley.

She most recently worked at Cisco Systems in San Jose for the last nine years, where she held the position of senior manager of leadership development.

A proponent of life-long learning, Fajardo is an alumnus of San Jose State University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in social services in 1980 and a Masters of Arts degree in instructional technology in 1993. She went on to earn a doctorate in education from the University of Southern California in 2002.