Ben Kraszyk

Ben Kraszyk is part of FTI’s Human Capital and Aviation practices, bringing extensive experience within workforce optimization, labor strategy, and airline operations to support his clients through restructurings, privatizations and with developing initiatives targeted at enhancing costs and productivity.

Mr. Kraszyk’s skills and specialties include labor negotiations and strategy, , workforce optimization, airport operations expertise, M&A, business process design, labor planning and modeling, and organizational strategy and design. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Kraszyk co-founded and served as a Managing Director at Strategy X Partners (“StratX”), a boutique human capital consultancy.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Kraszyk co-founded and served as a Managing Director at Strategy X Partners (StratX), a boutique human capital consultancy.

Ben also held positions at Seabury Consulting and United Airlines where he was focused on resource planning and other cost and operational enhancement projects within airport operations and cargo.

Mr. Kraszyk has a B.S. in Aviation Technology and an M.S. in Aviation and Aerospace Management from Purdue University. He also holds a Commercial Pilot Certificate with Instrument and Multi-Engine ratings.

Relevant Experience:

• Acted as primary advisor on numerous labor negotiations, providing financial and operational expertise to support in the process of successfully reaching agreement on new collective bargaining agreements
• Served as labor subject matter advisor and workstream lead on various due diligence and transformation efforts across many industries, with a particular focus on aviation and airlines
• Led a comprehensive operations transformation initiative across three distinct areas of the client’s airports organization, including customer service (“ATW”), ramp handling (“BTW”), and resource planning and standards; successfully designed and tested new operational processes and the role of a new resource planning team