Sentences with phrase «on areas of leadership»

Monica Higgins joined the Harvard faculty in 1995 and is the Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) where her research and teaching focus on the areas of leadership development and organizational change.

Higgins expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and organizational change.

Feedback software will shed light on any areas of leadership that require improvement, and will show employees that management is holding themselves accountable.

In addition to the six research articles, the Journal includes two commentaries: one on the area of leadership and the other regarding the adoption of personal health records in seniors housing communities.

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Under Mr. Fairbank's leadership, Capital One has demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism, supporting a number of area programs focused on community redevelopment and youth education, including DC Cares, the DC College Access Program and Junior Achievement.

Located in South San Francisco, Calif., and funded by leading investors, including The Column Group (TCG), Kleiner Perkins (KP), Topspin Partners, GV and Celgene Corporation, we have assembled a leadership team and advisory group with a proven track record of success and team of scientists with substantial knowledge and expertise in drug discovery and translational areas essential to execute on this approach.

Purdys is recognized today as Canada's leading Chocolatier due to Peter's leadership focus on invention and creation in all areas of the business.

Located in South San Francisco, Calif., and funded by leading investors, including The Column Group (TCG), Kleiner Perkins (KP), Topspin Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Celgene Corporation, FLX Bio has assembled a leadership team and advisory group with a proven track record of success and team of scientists with substantial knowledge and expertise in drug discovery and translational areas essential to execute on this approach.

Mr. Chisholm joined Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York in 1985 and he served in a variety of progressively senior leadership roles within the organization during his 30 - year career, including as Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group in both London and New York from 2002 to 2012 where he focused on areas such as strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, risk and capital management and principal investing advisory for financial institutions globally.

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Voce has reportedly met with FBR on a number of occasions, and even agrees with FBR's leadership that the company's most compelling growth area is within its advisory practice.

A grant committee featuring national, state and local experts in the areas of long - term recovery, nonprofit and government leadership, and the issue areas identified during the assessment has been convened and held its first meeting on January 11, 2018.

Allen identifies and comments on seven areas of concern that African Christians face in their churches, including the Africanization of theology, relationships with other religions, church and state, pastoral leadership, relationship with Euro - American partner churches, theological education, and struggles with social concerns.

The latter featured performances by the Atlanta Symphony, working conferences on tropical diseases, discussions of Schweitzer's ideas by theologians and philosophers, and associated concerts, films, panels and receptions throughout the Atlanta area, all under the leadership of a committee headed by Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena Schweitzer Miller.

But Kitty, the Romans had posted guards... are you suggesting Christians, who would later suffer persecution by both the Romans and Jewish leadership in charge of the area, would be able to take the Roman guards out and then continue on with the lie all the while being persecuted?

On the whole the traditional teaching appears irrelevant to most of the wider society which then looks elsewhere for moral leadership in this important area.

«Our philosophy is to give our food and beverage leadership team ownership of their areas and continuously support them on the road to success,» he says.

-- the players don't turn up or — the players aren't good enough or - the wrongs tactics are employed or — the players are played out of position or — we don't have a plan B or — we don't have leadership on the pitch or — we haven't strengthened the areas of the team that are weak

Based on findings, leadership crafted a Sustainability Strategic Plan — water being one of 11 focus areas — aimed at reducing the aquarium's environmental footprint.

We initiated a recycling program for facilities and parks, developed an integrated pest management program aimed at reducing use of pesticides and herbicides on playing fields and lawns, later banned smoking in District buildings and vehicles before that practice became state law, and continued to protect our natural areas through local leadership.

The intelligence briefings I read on a daily basis still usually start with plots in this country directed by Al Qaeda's senior leadership in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

As GOP Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin took his protest over a lack of hearings on water issues in Hoosick Falls to the Senate's Republican leadership, his counterpart who also represents the area in Albany backed Majority Leader John Flanagan's stance.

Farage is likely to make an appeal to voters who feel Labour's leadership have taken them for granted, particularly those with grievances about the impact of immigration on their local area.

Simon Wren - Lewis — one of shadow chancellor John McDonnell's high - powered economic advisory team — argued that Corbyn needed to base his leadership on those areas where his brand of politics has a degree of popularity and consensus — notably on anti-austerity, support for public services and lessening inequality — and he needed to show both popular flair while conducting a charm offensive on his parliamentary colleagues.

He continued «We are here in court to institute a criminal case against the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kauttal Hore and some Fulani herdsmen who instigated attacks on innocent civilians between December 31, 2017 and January 1, 2018 in Guma and Logo local government areas of Benue State.

Signs of Corbyn retreating from his «bunker style» leadership approach may also need to be in evidence, as well as flexible concessions offered on contentious policy areas such as Trident and Brexit.

A group of New York City Democrats on Sunday will name its candidate to replace Sheldon Silver, giving an area long at the heart of New York's Democratic politics its first leadership change in decades.

Once celebrated for its open plan and transparent, glass - enclosed conference rooms and offices, Bloomberg, back under the leadership of Michael Bloomberg, is slightly shifting course, establishing a closed area on its sixth floor for top executives.

This is because of the actions and inactions of the leadership of the party by allowing the NDC appointees to hold on to key positions when they are the ones who went to remote areas to campaign to bring the party back to power.

«The travel plaza community is grateful to Congresswoman Tenney for her leadership in working to bring the state of New York into compliance with the federal law prohibiting the sale of food and other commercial services at rest areas on the Interstate right - of - way,» said National Association of Truckstop Operators (NATSO) President and CEO Lisa Mullings.

To make the Tories a smaller target, minimise the potential for distracting internal conflict and focus the national debate on the two areas where David Cameron is confident he has the beating of Ed Miliband: leadership and the economy.

«The lack of progress that's been made in this area... is a direct result of the fact that women in senior leadership positions did not use those positions to speak frankly on these topics,» DeRosa said.

House Republican leaderships decision to not vote on the Senate's bill providing $ 60 billion in aid to areas impacted by Super Storm Sandy has led to a barrage of floor speeches from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The council bosses in a statement signed by Caretaker Chairmen of Iwa LCDA and Oorelope Local Government Area, Sulaimon Ajani and Okunlade Samuel respectively on behalf of their colleagues, noted that contrary to Shittu's claim, APC under the leadership of Governor Abiola Ajimobi «has continued to wax stronger and has become the only hope for the masses in the state as a result of the visionary leadership provided by the governor».

He therefore, calling on the leadership of Ghana's Parliament under the auspices of Prof. Mike Quaye to inform Ghana's Electoral Management Body to declare Kpone Katamanso constituency as vacant and organise immediate by - election to elect new person to represent the good people of the area.

Perhaps most importantly, however, the authors call for leadership from President Obama and Congress on the topic of disaster relief and mitigation within low - income areas.

Joint programming of research in the field of nutrition, food and health will provide for coordination of research on the impact of diet and lifestyles on health, contribute significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on prevention of diet - related diseases and strengthening leadership and competitiveness on the research activities in this field

Under his leadership from 2009 - 2015, uniQure received the first - ever approval of a gene therapy product by the European Medicines Agency, built a pipeline of gene therapy products across several disease areas, obtained approximately $ 200M through its NASDAQ - listing and follow - on, and closed a multi-billion dollar collaboration in cardiovascular gene therapy.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

Edinburgh and work accross UK About Blog This blog is about my thoughts on my own experience of breast cancer, my passion for improving health and healthcare and about heartful leadership in all areas of life.

It will be up to the new leadership to capitalize and build on the festival's strengths, while making necessary adjustments (e.g., becoming leaner and more focused in certain program areas wouldn't be such a bad thing) in order to continue to live up to being «a hub of Asian Cinema.»

Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy — high school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows.

Access to thousands of on - demand courses and materials, organized into topic areas such as business skills, leadership and management, and sales and service.

Further review of recent research studies on leadership development at the executive level identified content areas where leaders may have skill and knowledge gaps that could negatively impact organizational change, growth and success.

In year one, in addition to completing a core curriculum, every student chooses an elective and receives one - on - one leadership coaching to help identify areas of improvement.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

The program focuses on three areas of leadership — planning, organizational strategy and change, and transformational learning — with an overarching goal of increasing your leadership and management capacity.

Focusing on that second area then, what are some of the challenges you found during your review in relation to school leadership first of all?

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.