1. Strategies for Leadership Development
Organized by: Women in Plant Biology & Minority Affairs Committees

2. Stephanie Klein
Institution: Penn State University Role: Graduate Student, ASPB Ambassador, and ASPB Membership Committee Grad Student Rep Most valuable leadership skill I’ve learned (and still learning): With every new role one fills or project one takes on, there is always some level of discomfort (and excitement) associated with learning new things. Embracing that discomfort allowed me to be open to whatever new opportunities I encounter.

3. Pamela J. Hines Senior Editor phines@aaas.org, @Pam_Hines
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Pamela J. Hines
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4. Your Name: Beronda L. Montgomery
Where you work/go to school? Michigan State University
What your role/title/career stage is?
MSU Foundation Professor & Assistant Provost for Faculty Development–Research
What is the single most important leadership skill you have learned?
True leadership is a reciprocal exchange based on collective growth & action rather than on self-advancement.

5. Name: Savithramma P Dinesh-Kumar (Dinesh)
Affiliation: University of California, Davis; USA
Title: Professor & Chair of Department of Plant Biology
Member of ASPB Minority Affairs Committee (MAC)
Single most important leadership skill learned:
Positive Intent

6. Virginia Markham
PhD student at UC Berkeley, researcher at Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA
Rising 3rd year, past Conviron Scholar
Most important leadership skill:
Take time and effort to reach out in both casual and formal contexts

7. Michelle Smith
Corteva Agriscience, formerly Dow AgroSciences for 28 years
Entomology
Currently Master Planner in the R&D Transformation Office
Translation: a full-time role integrating R&D organizations in merger transaction
Important leadership skill I continue to develop: the art of delegation

8. Panelists Stephanie Klein –Penn State Pamela Hines –Science Editor
Beronda Montgomery –MSU
Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar (Dinesh) –UC Davis
Virginia Markham –UC Berkeley
Michelle Smith –Corteva Agriscience