Navy

The panel of female scholars representing the U.S. Army, Navy, and Tennessee National Guard share their experiences as female leaders in the military. Read More

In collaboration with the Graduate Leadership Institute, Bass Military Scholars, explore how different combinations of experience and authority can affect leadership strategy and team performance. Key themes addressed are listed below:Recognizing the difference between experience and authority.Identifying and leveraging informal leaders in an organization.Strategies to make an impact and… Read More

Tuesday night cooking dinner and I hear the light ring of my phone telling me I have an email waiting. It’s late and we’re watching the news reports roll in about COVID spreading across the US, however it doesn’t cross my mind that when I left law school today that… Read More

I will be a state champion. These are the words I had written and posted in my room as a high school senior. When I had downtime in class, I scribbled the sentence on notepads as a constant reminder of the goal I had set. The realm of athletics first introduced me to the power and necessity of goal setting. Luckily, school had always come fairly easy for me, but the sport of wrestling humbled me in ways I had not experienced in my young life. As a fourth grader, it forced me to learn new techniques and find value in improvement over winning. In middle and early high school, the sport demanded that I assess my strengths and weaknesses as the level of competition grew. Read More

As the SCUBA diving officer and safety swimmer aboard my submarine, I was the last person topside and responsible for closing the forward hatch for the final time until our crew resurfaced weeks (or sometimes months) later. I would check the area for debris, wipe down the seal, and watch… Read More