Inclusive Leadership Learning Cohort Session 2: Inclusive Leadership in Academia

How can you learn, ideate, prototype, and test your leadership skills to feel comfortable in your abilities as well as be confident in applying them? Leadership, like technical skills, is an acquired skill. We often admire or decry a leader based on certain attributes and decide to pick what we like or dislike. On the flipside “copying” other leaders, makes you “hide” part of your personal self to fit the mold of the “expected” professional world. As the intellectual pool is becoming more diverse - how do we adapt and recreate an environment that fosters inclusion to drive innovation and excellence?

Speaker: Srikant Iyer, Associate Director, Science Alliance

Srikant Iyer is the Associate Director, Science Alliance at New York Academy of Sciences. He leads program development to bridge skill gaps for graduate and post-doctoral fellows. Iyer received his PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology where he worked in the interdisciplinary field of biomedical, materials science and nanosciences which resulted in a patent and multiple scientific publications. Prior to joining the academy, Iyer was a research scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He developed metrics to quantify diversity and inclusion within academic institutions, organized and facilitated multiple workshops for top 100 STEM departments to increase diversity, inclusion and equity by engaging senior leaders and diverse stakeholders within academia. He can be reached at siyer@nyas.org

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