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Business Skills for PhDs in Academia and Beyond: Leadership and Mentoring
by GradFUTURES
Friend Center 006
Friend Center 006, Princeton, NJ, United States
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Speakers:
1. Ruth Gotian, Chief Learning Officer and Associate Professor of Education at Weill Cornell Medicine; Author of The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance
2. Ushma Neil, Vice President of Scientific Education and Training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Editor-at-Large Journal of Clinical Investigation
Learn about principles of leadership and approaches for mentorship and effective communication
Cohort Description: Most people associate the term “business” with the private sector. However, business skills and models are widely applied in every sector: public, private and non-profit (which includes academia). You are acquiring many transferable skills in your Ph.D. program that can be applied in academic roles as well as within a variety of industries and job functions. Join the business skills learning cohort to better understand foundational concepts and language of business. This learning cohort includes experiential learning in the form of group capstone presentations under guidance of alum mentors.
Broad Topics include:
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Purpose, ethics, and responsibility: stakeholder theory
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Analysis of strategy and operations
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Data science in business
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Leadership and mentoring
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Negotiation
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Financial 360
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Business Communications
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Business of higher ed
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Speakers
Ushma Neill
Vice President, Scientific Education and Training
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
As Vice President of Scientific Education and Training at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Ushma oversees the academic curriculum for pre- and postdoctoral researchers who train in laboratories across MSK. Ushma's areas of focus include enhancing the career and professional development opportunities available to trainees as well as designing courses in areas such as rigor and transparency, statistics, computational biology, and imaging.
A passionate advocate for scientific communication, Ushma is also deeply committed to developing platforms that allow trainees to enhance the efficacy of their communications to fellow scientists and to the lay public.
Ushma's graduate education began at Northwestern University where she studied pulmonary mechanics and mathematical modeling. After completing her doctoral degree in biomedical engineering, she used a Marshall Scholarship to study vascular permeability as a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London.
After her postdoc, Ushma spent two years as a manuscript editor at Nature Medicine, and then joined the Journal of Clinical Investigation as Executive Editor. During her nine years in this role, she led academic editorial boards at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Duke University/University of North Carolina in identifying, soliciting, and peer reviewing high-quality manuscripts. She also oversaw the writing, commissioning, and editing of front matter, including Editorials, News, Commentaries, Reviews, and Perspectives.
Ushma first came to MSK in 2012 as Director of the Office of the President, serving as the Chief of Staff to President and CEO Craig B. Thompson. In this role, she worked closely with Dr. Thompson and other MSK leadership, to shape and manage a strategic agenda.
Ushma continues to serve as Editor-at-Large for the JCI,acting as the chief interviewer for the JCI video series “Conversations with Giants in Medicine.”
Dr. Ruth Gotian
Chief Learning Officer; Associate Professor of Education in Anesthesiology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer, Associate Professor of Education in Anesthesiology, and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. She also has a weekly show and podcast by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success. In 2021, she was one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking and is a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list.
During her extensive career, she has personally coached and mentored thousands of people ranging from undergraduates to faculty members. As Assistant Dean for Mentoring she oversaw the success of nearly 1,800 faculty members at Weill Cornell Medicine. Currently, she researches the most successful people of our generation, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, CEOs and Olympic champions, in order to learn about their habits and practices so that we may optimize our own success.
Dr. Gotian received her B.S. and M.S. in Business Management from the University at Stony Brook in New York and certificates in Executive Leadership and Managing for Execution from Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University where she studied Adult Learning and Leadership and focused her research on optimizing success.
Dr. Gotian publishes on topics ranging from networking, mentoring, leadership development and optimizing success and has given keynote talks on these themes all over the globe. She regularly publishes in such journals as Nature, Scientific American, Academic Medicine, Psychology Today, Forbes and Harvard Business Review. She is the co-editor of a book on medical education, won numerous mentoring awards and is the author of The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance.
Recently she won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement "Radar" Award, ranking her the #1 emerging management thinker in the world.