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S2 Ep1 - "Lessons in Leadership and the New Management Style" - The Conversation with Dr. Jason Edwards

January 02, 2022 • SINC USA • Season 2 • Episode 1

Season 2 of SINC: The Conversation kicks off with Dr. Jason Edwards, Strategy Principal of Information Security at USAA. A former US Army Calvary officer, Dr. Edwards also serves as the Cybersecurity Learning Facilitator for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology xPro Cybersecurity Program, and is a teaching professor at the University of Miami, the University of Central Florida, and NYU.

In this episode, Dr. Edwards shares insights on leadership culture shifts and the new management style he envisions under remote work, what industry can learn from the military workplace, and leadership culture highlights from his 20-year green-to-gold military career— a journey from enlisted to decorated calvary officer and Brigade CIO/CISO.

Benefits of the new management/assessment style, for both employees and employers
Reevaluating the 4-year degree: adaptive hiring objectives, vocational education
Culture, training, and a people-first ethos—industry takeaways from military best practices
Top-of-mind concerns in risk management
Why you might not retain talent forever, and why that's OK

Engage with Dr. Jason Edwards at our 2022 TOLA Leaders Forum, March 6-8 at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines outside Austin, TX.