Transforming Your Stem Career Through Leadership and Innovation

Inspiration and Strategies for Women
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-12-396993-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation offers valuable information on what it means to be a leader and innovator and encourages you to discover and develop these skills for yourself. This book integrates leadership and innovation principles with personal examples and profiles of inspirational women. By providing a clear process on how to build upon your personal strengths to realize leadership and innovation goals, this book will inspire you to pick up the mantle and meet the critical need for leadership and innovation in the STEM fields. This is a must-have guide that is relevant and valuable for women in all stages of their careers.

Zielgruppe

<p>Women pursuing or involved in a career in the STEM fields who are interested in developing skills as leaders and innovators. This includes female students and academics as well as regulatory and industry professionals. Additional markets include academic and professional women's organizations in these areas, as well as leadership development programs, innovation and technology conferences and professional development training and workshops. </p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCauley Bush, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Ausbildung, Jobs, Karriere: Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: A Call to Leadership

Chapter 2: Why Innovation Matters Even More Today

Chapter 3: Why More Women Don't Lead and Innovate

Chapter 4: Leadership and Innovation Characteristics

Chapter 5: Developing the Leader in You

Chapter 6: Innovate - today!

Chapter 7: Women Leaders Must Support Each Other

Chapter 8: The Don't Quit Plan for Sustained Leadership and Innovation

Über Autor(innen)

McCauley Bush, Pamela
Pamela McCauley Bush, PhD, CPE is a leader, innovator and motivator. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Ergonomics Laboratory, Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University of Central Florida. She is also the Chief Technology Officer of Bush Enterprises/Tech-Solutions, Inc. Dr. Bush is a successful researcher and innovator as demonstrated by the numerous federal research grants, technical publications, and national and international committee appointments to her credit. She is a nationally recognized motivational speaker in the Women's Leaders and STEM Education communities.