Airlines

Celebrating The Power Of Women

Air Canada’s Arielle Meloul-Wechsler has been named to WXN’s list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 for 2019 in the Corporate Executives Category.

“Through her example of integrity and hard work, Arielle is a tremendous mentor and role model not only for women but for everyone at Air Canada. As a trusted member of the senior leadership team, she has helped guide the transformation of Air Canada. In particular, in her area of responsibility for People, Culture and Communications, she has been instrumental in driving culture change at our company, with a focus on diversity and inclusion reflected in the high participation rate by women at all levels of the company,” said Calin Rovinescu, president and chief executive of Air Canada.

Meloul-Wechsler – senior vice-president, people, culture and communications — has been a member of Air Canada’s executive team since 2013. She has oversight for all human resources and culture change initiatives across the company, labour relations, customer service training as well as internal and external communications.

She is also Air Canada’s Champion of Official Languages and has oversight over the Air Canada Foundation as well as Air Canada’s CSR Reporting. During her tenure, Air Canada has been named for several consecutive years, among Canada’s Top 100 Employers, among Montreal’s Top Employers, one of Canada’s Top Diversity Employers, in addition to being named one of the Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures in Canada.

Go to https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/home/about/media/media-features/empowering-a-culture.html to learn more about what Meloul-Wechsler believes is the key to success for women in business.