Session 3: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Wednesday, December 1, 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 #3: LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The third session in the series is on “Leading with Emotional Intelligence.” WAN favorite, Stephanie Perkins, will lead a fast-paced session on emotional intelligence, what it is and how you can harness emotional intelligence to improve work performance, job satisfaction and personal relationships. Our leadership conversation is with Kishia L. Powell, DC Water’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.
About our Speakers
Stephanie Goetsch-Perkins
Stephanie is a repeat WAN speaker, organizational development professional, and certified brain-based career coach. Her career foundation is in corporate human resources and has been an entrepreneur since launching Spark Career Strategy in 2010. What began as dedicated performance coaching for “what’s next?!” professionals, blossomed into organizational design and development solutions. Stephanie is passionate about helping women rise to their professional best by knowing, growing, and capitalizing on their value.
Kishia L. Powell
Kishia L. Powell joined DC Water in May 2020, and serves as the Authority's Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, overseeing all operating departments, as well as the Customer Service and Administration clusters. Ms. Powell comes to DC Water from her previous role as Commissioner of the City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management, where she had served since June 2016. With expertise in sustainable infrastructure management and utility operations, she has leveraged 22 years of experience in both the public and private sectors to successfully serve municipalities across the United States and London, England. As Atlanta’s Watershed Management Commissioner, she was responsible for oversight of $644M in annual operating expenditures and a five-year capital improvement plan of $1.26B including the Water Supply Program to secure Atlanta’s water future, which reached a significant milestone in April 2020 when water from the Chattahoochee River started filling the quarry. As part of her tenure she worked to set the strategic direction of Watershed Management with a focus on financial resilience, improving service delivery, infrastructure investment, and workforce development including a partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Corrections to reduce recidivism by hiring prerelease non-violent offenders as Watershed Trainees. As a Global Water Leader, she led the Department to recognition in the inaugural class of Leading Utilities of the World during the Global Water Summit in Madrid, Spain in April 2017. Prior to joining the City of Atlanta, COO Powell served as the Public Works Director for the City of Jackson, Mississippi where she was responsible for developing a programmatic strategy and master plan for Jackson’s Municipal Special Sales Tax-funded infrastructure improvements program including the “Greening the Gateways” initiative which led to the City’s award of a $16.5 million TIGER Grant in October 2015. In 2008, she was appointed Bureau Head of Water and Wastewater for the City of Baltimore to lead a 1900-person agency with an annual operating budget of $300M and a six-year CIP of $2.2B serving 1.8M customers. Based upon her work in Baltimore she was named the 2010 Maryland Water Environment Federation’s Water Hero.
