Soft Leadership Skills: April 20, 2021
Title: Leading like a General – Military Leadership Principles for the Modern Executive
Presented By: Scott Bethel, Brigadier General,
USAF (Ret.); Founder and CEO of IntegrityISR; Former Vice Commander, Air Force ISR Agency (AFISRA); Former Senior Drone Operations Director and Analyst and the Air Force’s Senior Targeteer; Former Commander for the Training of All DoD Intelligence Personnel; Master’s Degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College.
[ISR: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance]
Description: This webinar focuses on the effective application of senior leadership principles of successful Generals. Participants will understand that being a senior military leader is not simply about giving orders and wearing cool uniforms. Instead, it’s about truly understanding that a General is at the top of a real team.
Learning Outcomes:
A- The Leader
1. Participants will be able to identify the tenets of Military Leadership
2. Participants will be able to apply the components of the OODA Loop
3. Participants will be able to determine an effective End State and apply it to strategy
B- The Team
4. Participants will be able to correctly apply Military Values to leadership
5. Participants will be able to define the ways to delegate command and authority
C- Victory
6. Participants will be able to identify the components of the continuous planning cycle and how to use them to assess and modify the quality of a plan
7. Participants will be able to identify the three aspects of Military Art and how to leverage them in a business setting.
Biography: Scott Bethel is the Founder and CEO of IntegrityISR. He is a retired Air Force brigadier general with 33 years of senior leadership experience in small business development, business intelligence, strategic planning, organizational design, intelligence, information technologies and security, cyber, and education. His current focus areas are Cyber Operations, Strategy, Policy, Education and Training. In addition, he’s working on developing and mentoring small business through associations with accelerators in the US and Europe. He’s worked in both an advisory and training role with US and coalition partners including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Thailand, Poland, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Finland, and Mexico. As a consultant he has provided senior advice to a wide variety of government and commercial clients on Cyber, Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Electronic Warfare, ISR, Targeting and Operations. He’s also an Adjunct Professor at Angelo State University and serves on numerous Academic and Professional Boards. On active duty, he served as vice commander, Air Force ISR Agency (AFISRA), where he oversaw the organization, strategic planning, training and equipping of assigned forces to conduct ISR for the nation. He was the senior Drone Operations Director and Analyst as well as the Air Force’s senior targeteer. He has also served as a commander with responsibility for the initial training of all DoD intelligence personnel. In addition, he had various command and staff positions, including at Air Education and Training Command, as well as multiple deployments to combat areas. He has spoken and published extensively on business startups, ISR and cyber strategy and policy, future ISR systems, and modernization of processing, exploitation, and dissemination efforts.
Mr. Bethel has a master’s degree in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Northern Illinois University. He was a national security fellow at Boston University. He is the author of numerous articles and is author of the book “Vladmir Vladmirovich Putin and Russian Foreign Policy for a New Millennium: A New Approach.”
