Bonus Episode: Practical steps to improve your leadership skills

In this last part of the leadership series with Gary Sullivan, we talk about the next steps, you can take to work on your leadership skills.

We cover the following areas:

  • Books
  • Mentoring
  • Role of supervisors
  • Podcasts
  • Mastermind groups
  • Courses

In terms of courses, we specifically dive deeper on The Effective Statistician Leadership Program. You can find more on this program information here!

Gary Sullivan, PhD

He currently consults as a Leadership Specialist and Statistical Scientist for my company Espirer Consulting since March, 2018. Before this, I was the Senior Director for Non-Clinical Statistics at Eli Lilly and Company, where I worked for 28 years. I also worked as a technical statistician in Non-Clinical Statistics for the first half of my career at Eli Lilly. He led the development and instruction of the first leadership course at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2014.. I’ve provided leadership training to over 300 professionals in statistics and other fields, both at Eli Lilly and within the ASA. In addition, I’ve authored several articles and a book chapter on leadership for statisticians. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh, and both a Master’s and Doctorate in Statistics from Iowa State University.
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