Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation: Inspiration and Strategies for Women

Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation offers valuable information on what it means to be a leader and innovator and encourages you to discover and develop these skills for yourself. This book integrates leadership and innovation principles with personal examples and profiles of inspirational women. By providing a clear process on how to build upon your personal strengths to realize leadership and innovation goals, this book will inspire you to pick up the mantle and meet the critical need for leadership and innovation in the STEM fields. This is a must-have guide that is relevant and valuable for women in all stages of their careers.

Examines research-based leadership and innovation principles to make these critically important characteristics both real and attainableEmpowers you to build upon your own strengths and successes to discover and develop leadership and innovation skillsFeatures a companion website that highlights women’s leadership success stories, innovation resources and best practicesProvides a practical guide that educates, encourages and equips you to pursue leadership and innovation opportunities

Chapter 1: A Call to Leadership

Chapter 2: Why Innovation Matters Even More Today

Chapter 3: Why More Women Don’t Lead and Innovate

Chapter 4: Leadership and Innovation Characteristics

Chapter 5: Developing the Leader in You

Chapter 6: Innovate – today!

Chapter 7: Women Leaders Must Support Each Other

Chapter 8: The Don’t Quit Plan for Sustained Leadership and Innovation