Fall 2025 Leadership and Management in Action Program
The Leadership and Management in Action Program (L-MAP) is a collaboration between the Office of Postdoctoral Services at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Virginia Tech.
All postdocs at GT, VT, and MIT are invited to participate. Dr. Karena Nguyen, Assistant Director of Postdoctoral Services at GT will be the main facilitator.
Why register?
- Engage in hands-on 90-minute sessions for 6 weeks
- Discuss case studies developed by postdocs for postdocs
- Practice strategies to management collaborations
- Develop your leadership brand
- Expand your network with postdocs from GT, VT, and MIT
L-MAP will introduce postdocs to the interpersonal and psychological foundations of leading teams and managing people. The program will consist of 6 units that use case studies to help participants change attitudes, behaviors, and decisions related to conflict management, communication strategies and navigating organizational hierarchies.
Leadership and Management in Action Program
Thursdays, October 9 - November 13 | 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Zoom Webinar Series
About L-MAP:
Originally developed at Washington University in St. Louis with support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, L-MAP uses an active-learning format based on discussion of authentic case studies drawn from the experiences of graduate students and postdocs from diverse backgrounds. Case study training facilitates learning through active problem-solving and allows participants to change attitudes, behaviors, and decisions related to conflict management, communication strategies and navigating organizational hierarchies.
New engineering-based case studies have been developed by Georgia Tech in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis to supplement the L-MAP model.
Topics to be covered across the 6-week series include:
- Professionalism and Professional Identity
- Leading Without Authority
- Negotiation
- Working in Teams
- Inclusive Organizational Cultures
And will culminate with you writing your personal Leadership Statement.
Program Objectives:
Research-intensive institutions increasingly recognize the importance of team science and collaborations, both between research teams and with industry partners to develop new knowledge, products, and technology. Trainees in this program will learn skills to participate in and develop functional teams that respect diversity and foster inclusion. Through active learning in teams, postdocs will develop applicable leadership and management skills that will transfer to any career they pursue, post-postdoc.