Government Programs
National Security Agency
In 2003, twenty upper level managers at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland participated in a Mapping the Future Leadership Program. They came from a wide variety of backgrounds, skills, and home organizations. They included linguists, mathematicians, and security specialists. Their length of service ranged from seven to twenty-two years with several participants having at least a twenty-year tenure with the agency.
Topics that the sessions covered included “Experts and Expertise,” “Questions, Power and Authority,” “Public and Private Selves,” “Judging Others and Ourselves,” “Motives and Rationalization,” and “Community and the Individual.” NSA managers are experts in their particular areas. The program forced them to confront the ways in which they deal with their different paradigms. In so doing the participants came to see the limiting roles that their perceptions and backgrounds can play. As a result they began to better understand and articulate their personal beliefs, and to strengthen their core leadership skills.
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