ABI Senior TechLeaders at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA

Every year we hold an invitation only Techleaders for Senior Women. We held this year's TechLeaders at Georgia Tech, one of the great centers of learning for Engineering and Computing.

The focus of this workshop is on strategic leadership. We have two great facilitators Dr. Frank Greene and Denise Brosseau, and the attendess are an extraordinary group of academic and industry leaders. For whatever reason, this particular workshop includes more academic leaders than industry - perhaps because it was held at Georgia Tech. In any case they are a wonderfully rich and diverse group of attendees, who can be seen on the website.

Today, Frank walked us through his VRE Leadership framework - which stands for Vision, Relationships and Execution The VRE Leadership model recognize that we use three intelligence centers - thinking, emotional and instinctive. In his model, Vision (V)is done through the thinking intelligence, Relationships (R) are developed through your emotional intelligence, and Execution (E) is accomplished through your instinctive intelligence. Any successful strategic leadership plan addresses these three areas.

There is a real value for me in the framework for thinking about successful leadership. WHat is most exciting is to ee the projects that the attendees came up with (we worked in groups)! ONe group wants to build a better future for middleschool girls, another envisions a line of technical women toys and dolls for young folks. The team I was on created a strategic plan a state of the art video replicated at Starbucks.

I can't wait to see what is next.