1. Discovering the Leader Within You: Where You’ve Been
Integrating the Life Sciences from Molecule to Organism
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Discovering the Leader Within You:
Where You’ve Been
Captain Thomas C. Herzig
Executive Officer
Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory
Presented on April 5, 2016
At EB 2016
San Diego, CA April 2016

2. Leadership and Management Skills: What You Might Not See in Your CV
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This presentation is part of
2016 Career Symposium on
Leadership and Management Skills:
What You Might Not See in Your CV
Organized by the APS Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee
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3. Where you have been impacts where you are going
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Where you have been impacts where
you are going
Course development
Teaching labs or coursework
Leading seminar
Laboratory management
Committee service
Community service
Team player
Purchasing
Budgeting
Writing – manuscripts, proposals, plans
Internships (e.g., OLA) PI
Faculty (teaching or research focused)
Leadership (dept or corp level)
Management
Independent vs large group
Policy vs practice
Tactical, Operational, Strategic Levels of an organization

4. What skills do you have? The American Physiological Society
Course development
Teaching labs or coursework
Leading seminar
Laboratory management
Committee service
Community service
Team player
Purchasing
Budgeting
Writing – manuscripts, proposals, plans
Internships (e.g., OLA)
Leading self
Leading others
Managing resources
Budgeting / Finance
Time management
Scope control
Marketing / Sales
Teamwork

5. Skills, gaps, direction The American Physiological Society
Scientific Research
Types of jobs desired
Keys of success for job
Skills held, need, can get
Education
Target efforts to achieve goals
Success!
Project conception or initiation
Project planning
Project execution
Project control and monitoring
Project closeout
Project Management

6. Captain Thomas C. Herzig Thomas.c.herzig.mil@mail.mil
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Captain Thomas C. Herzig
BS, Southwestern University; PhD, UTHSCSA; MSPM, George Washington Univ.; PMP certificate
He has held research, faculty, and staff positions, working in R&D, university, and HQ settings, respectively. He has also served as a dept head, director, senior scientist, Chief Medical Planner, and deputy Surgeon. CAPT Herzig has moved into executive medicine, and currently serves as the executive officer (COO) of the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory.

7. For more information, to listen to other presentations,
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