Taking Point: The umbrella for my platforms live— blending aviation, authenticity, critical thinking, and courage.
Taking Point is a leadership platform built on courage, clarity, and critical thinking. Created by Julia Cannell, it brings together aviation, education, caregiving, and lived experience to explore what it really means to lead.This is a space for thoughtful conversations, hard questions, and honest storytelling — grounded in the belief that leadership isn’t a title, it’s a stance.Progress doesn’t happen by waiting.It happens when someone is willing to go first.
Platform One:Â
Bench Strategy
Aviation-first workforce readiness and career navigation.
This is where revenue focus currently lives.
Platform Two
Explore Aerospace
Infrastructure and tools that enable others to deliver aerospace education.
This is not client coaching.
Platform Three
Compassionate CaregiverWriting, reflection, and resources.Low lift, non-commercial, values-driven.
Educator Support
We equip educators with materials that make implementation easy. We expect to expand to include teacher walkthroughs and limited coaching—not full PD programming. We welcome teacher feedback to improve our tools but will be intentional about how we scale collaboration.
Learning Labs as the Platform
Our content serves as the starter pack for a larger lab ecosystem. We design the core experience (e.g., Kerbal), but the lab is meant to grow with add-ons like flight sims, drone sims, and Minecraft EDU—added by the school or in partnership with content providers.
Scalable Toolkit, Not One-Size-Fits-All
Each site customizes their experience. We help define what a good program looks like (curriculum, engagement, equipment, training), but we are not running the entire year’s content. Our current modules are an engaging introduction, and we’ll work with sites to ensure the toolkit fits their goals.
