Archive: Senior TechLeaders: Leadership, the Final Frontier
On June 30 – July 1, 2008 an impressive group of technical senior women from academia and industry gathered at Georgia Institute of Technology for ABI’s annual Senior TechLeaders workshop. Companies and universities represented included IBM, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Clemson, Georgia Tech, UNC Charlotte, Purdue, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, North Carolina State, University of Nebraska – Omaha, University of Georgia, Mercer University, Indiana University, University of Virginia, University of San Diego and Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP.
The 2008 workshop theme was “Leadership, the Final Frontier”. Guided by facilitators Denise Brosseau, Co-Founder & President of Invent Your Future Enterprises and Dr. Frank Greene, General Partner of NewVista Capital and President of the GO-Positive Education Foundation, workshop participants focused on building participants’ strategic leadership and creating a career-life plan. The goals of the workshop were:
- Expand your network of senior technical women colleagues across industry, academia, and government.
- Increase your collective impact as a group of powerful women better connected with each other.
- Explore key leadership principles as a group to create a clear personal vision of what you want to achieve in the next steps of your career and life.
- Understand your inner leadership styles, strengths and challenges.
- Learn to evolve your personal leadership style for ongoing success as a leader in your organization.
- Learn the rules for creating safe environments for innovation and risk taking for your team.
On Day 1 Dr. Greene introduced his VRE (Vision, Relationships and Execution) Leadership Model is a framework which utilizes understanding of our three intelligence centers: thinking, emotional and instinctive to enhance leadership skills. Participants utilized the VRE model during a leadership challenge exercise where they worked in teams to create project proposals for venture capitalists (their fellow participants). Fascinating projects emerged from the simulation including super smart cars, recruiting for success and building a better future for middle school girls.
On Day 2 Denise Brosseau showed participants how to create a one page life plan. The one page plan helped participants to outline their career and life vision for the next 1-3 years which included their priorities, objectives, strategies and action plan to execute their vision.
The workshop featured keynote speakers Dr. Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering & Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and Duy-Loan T. Le, Senior Fellow at Texas Instruments. Leah Jamieson and Duy-Loan Le shared their life strategies which helped them to become successful technical leaders.
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ABI Senior TechLeaders at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA
