Developing Leadership Attitudes and Skills in Working Adult Women Technical Graduate Students: Research Interview Results with Alumni

Abstract

is a senior consultant, executive coach and educator with over 35 years of leadership experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors,developing the leadership capacity to create high performing organizations and facilitating leadership teams to do likewise. She has earned a reputation for her leadership with female leaders, coaching them to live into their greatest potential. She uses an integrated model that balances the inside-out and outside-in approach to developing leaders. She has earned graduate degrees in Educational Psychology, Industrial Relations, and Organizational Leadership. She is a published author of several articles and two books.

A Study of Alumni of the 'Leveraging Leadership for a Lifetime' Leadership Development Course

“…This approach allowed 'assimilation time' for students to understand the concepts, put them into practice, and reflect on their learning. Details of the courses have been previously covered in many other ASEE documents [6,7,8,9]and other publications. [16] While the specific learning tools and instructional techniques in the LLL course series evolved somewhat over time, its core course structure, objectives and components remained stable.…”

“…The program launch began in January 2003 with 21 students. Students responded very favorably and found the program immensely rewarding [6,7,8,9]. They began the process by assessing themselves on their leadership potential (a 360-degree instrument on leadership competencies) [10], their emotional intelligence capacity [11], a values assessment [12], their learning styles [13], and their personality preferences [14].…”

Mapping Engineering Leadership Research through an AI-enabled Systematic Literature Review

“…An outcome of Terenzini and Reason's college impacts framework is persistence. In this study, the impact of EL on women is highlighted in the literature, particularly in Advancing Women in industry and Recruiting and Retaining Women in engineering (e.g., [56], [57]). A glaring gap is in studies on the outcomes of EL development on other diverse populations, particularly those that hold multiple facets of identity, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.…”