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SEATTLE – Lt. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, the commanding general of I Corps, joined business, academic and military leaders March 10 to discuss leader development and leadership qualities at the Building Leaders of Character, Expertise & Commitment panel discussion here.
Cohosted by the University of Washington Tacoma and I Corps, the event was sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and continued the partnership efforts between community organizations and I Corps by opening a dialogue about the values of leadership.
“The beauty of these forums is the linkage of what we all do in our professions,” said Lanza. “There is so much commonality between academia, business and the military in terms of the attributes in how we address leader development.”
Panel members Phyllis Campbell, chairman, Pacific Northwest for JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Nicole Piasecki, the vice president and general manager of the Propulsion Systems Division of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, joined Lanza to discuss their perspectives on leadership within their organizations.
John Hempelmann, president of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation Board of Governors, moderated the discussion and asked the panelists about the value of character and its importance in leader development.
Lanza said that in some cases confidence is confused with character because the force has been battle tested after 13 years of war.
“In our profession, as we look at leader development and how we bridge forward into the future, character trumps confidence,” said Lanza. “You need leaders with character who make the right decisions and the right moral judgments based on the values that they have.”
After identifying key leadership attributes, the panel discussed the evolution of expertise and how it is taught within an organization.
“You create a structure where leaders can be adaptive and agile so that you can respond to changes in your environment,” said Lanza. “Leadership is a journey, and every day I know even I, as a general officer, continue to have to build my expertise in terms of how I lead.”
Lanza explained the three spheres of leader development in the Army: the operational sphere, which involves on-the-job training and mentorship; the institutional sphere, which encompasses the Army school system; and the self-assessment sphere.
“We are tested, we are evaluated and we are assessed,” said Lanza.
After the panel discussion, members of the audience participated in a question and answer session, where the topic of gender in relation to leadership was discussed.
Piasecki said in her experience there is a difference between female and male leaders in that women tend to network and build consensus more, while some men have a more straightforward approach.
“I personally am a big supporter of having both female and male leaders in large organizations from the fact that our products are used by males and females,” said Piasecki. “There are several key, female leaders at Boeing running many programs.”
“I thought it was great that we had a very diverse participation from across the Seattle area,” said David S. Niekerk, Amazon culture and employee engagement leader. “I thought the questions helped bring deeper insight.”
| Date Taken: | 03.10.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.11.2015 11:35 |
| Story ID: | 156633 |
| Location: | SEATTLE, WA, US |
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