Why NASA LEADS?

  • Create visionary science organizations
  • Grow a cohort of effective, supportive, ethical, globally aware technical leaders
  • Curriculum aligned with the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and the science leadership themes
  • NASA LEADS participants will benefit from:
    • honing their ability to lead high-performing teams for scientific innovations and breakthroughs
    • increasing their awareness of NASA as an organization and its culture
    • increasing their awareness of their personal values and alignment with NASA’s core values 
    • integrating and applying of values to ethical leadership
    • increasing their awareness of the value of diversity & inclusion 
    • exposure to senior leadership 
    • gaining or increasing their Agency-level project experience
    • having direct development in the sub competency ECQs identified across all career stages
    • joining a cohesive and dynamic cohort of leaders committed to excellence, innovation, and diversity in the sciences