Session 2: LEADING THROUGH CHANGE
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
6:30 - 8:00 PM ET
via Zoom
Are you an early- or mid-career professional trying to figure out how to take the next step in your career? WAN is organizing a 3-part leadership series on "Transitioning to Leadership Positions," to help WAN members and participants:
Understand what a leader is and the different ways one can lead,
Learn how to position oneself to move into management, and
Understand challenges women specifically face when moving into leadership positions and how to overcome/ minimize them.
This series will equip existing and aspiring leaders with the knowledge, self-awareness, and professional development skills to effectively lead. Each session will feature a conversation with a female leader in the aquatic field and a training on some of the skills that make for a good leader.
SESSION #2: LEADING THROUGH CHANGE
During session #2, “Leading Through Change,” we’ll discuss leading through times of uncertainty and change, whether it's a global pandemic, market forces, or organizational transformations. Our leadership conversation will be with Dr. Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences and WAN's 2017 Woman of the Year.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Dr. Marcia McNutt
Dr. Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 2009 to 2013. During her tenure, the USGS responded to a number of major disasters, including earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and Japan, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. McNutt led a team of government scientists and engineers at BP headquarters in Houston who helped contain the oil and cap the well. She directed the flow rate technical group that estimated the rate of oil discharge during the spill’s active phase. Before joining the USGS, McNutt served as president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), in Moss Landing, California. During her time at MBARI, the institution became a leader in developing biological and chemical sensors for remote ocean deployment, installed the first deep-sea cabled observatory in U.S. waters, and advanced the integration of artificial intelligence into autonomous underwater vehicles for complex undersea missions.
