By Lily Kelly-Radford
Leaders have to go where no one has gone before. That’s what Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson did when she enrolled at MIT.
Dr. Jackson told MIT’s Technology Review that she stayed on after earning her undergraduate degree in 1968 to work on a doctorate because she: “Wasn’t going to give people the satisfaction of getting me to walk away” and that she would, “’open the aperture’” for more minorities and women at the Institute.
Above, Dr. Jackson receives the National Medal of Science from President Obama.
Read about Dr. Jackson–included in our second half of our Not-so-white Paper–and other case studies to help your organization provide relevant examples of non-traditional leaders. Download your Not-so-white Paper here.
Not-so-white Paper #2
Next Generation Models of Leadership
My intention is to share contributions from various countries and demonstrate that diversity has immense power. Many of these profiled leaders were first to market in their industry and are part of new economic or business models. They weathered struggles that we should know about and learn from. They exemplify a world that continues to move toward a system where multiculturalism is a contributor to great success.
These are the faces of today’s global nature of leadership.
Lily Kelly-Radford, Ph.D.
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