Learning Objective: Examine methods for helping female employees grow and develop into new leaders Good organizations ask questions such as “Do our leaders possess the skills they need to think strategically?” Change and development strategies can be complicated for some. Executives are not influential until they can think strategically or lead change. That’s why vertical leadership will support women and advance strategic thinking. As managers learn and progress, the way that they think about processes will expand their competencies. At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a. Understand and define what “vertical development in leadership” is. b. Focus more on strategic development thinking in female employees. c. Make the development and the work inseparable. d. Create solid developmental networks at work. e. Make female leadership development a process, not an event.

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Vertical Leadership:
Developing the next level of women leaders
Seminar 1116
Saturday, October 8, 2022
03:30 – 04:45 pm
COL (P) Antoinette R. Gant, Moderator
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

3. Good organizations ask questions such as “Do our
leaders possess the skills they need to think
strategically?” Change and development strategies can
be complicated for some. Executives are not influential
until they can think strategically or lead change. That’s
why vertical leadership will support women and advance
strategic thinking. As managers learn and progress, the
way that they think about processes it will expand their
competencies.

4. Meet The Panelists
COL Princess Atunrase
Princess.l.Atunrase.mil@health.mil
Mrs. Cheryl Neal – Green
Cheryl.l.nealgreen.civ@health.mil
COL Lawanda Warthen
Lawanda.d.warthen.mil@health.mil
COL Jenise Carroll
Jenise.carroll@us.af.mil

5. What does Vertical
Leadership
Development
mean to you?

6. What is “vertical development” in leadership ?
Vertical development is about expanding your mindset —
changing the way you think and behave. Your mindset
refers to the mental models you engage when you are
thinking, as well as your sense of identity. Vertical
development isn’t about training a leader in skills; it’s about
transforming the ways a leader thinks, which will impact
what they do and how they behave. In vertical development,
you pay attention to becoming more adaptable, more self-
aware, more collaborative and able to span boundaries and
networks.

7. Focus more
on making
development
and the work
inseparable.
Make female
leadership
development a
process, not an
event….

9. Creating a solid developmental networks
at work.

11. Thank you for your participation!

12. Contact Information
COL Princess Atunrase
Princess.l.Atunrase.mil@health.mil
Mrs. Cheryl Neal – Green
Cheryl.l.nealgreen.civ@health.mil
COL (P) Antoinette Gant
Antoinette.r.Gant@usace.army.mil
COL Lawanda Warthen
Lawanda.d.warthen.mil@health.mil
COL Jenise Carroll
Jenise.carroll@us.af.mil