Abstract
The American Chemical Society is celebrating 10 years of developing leaders through its Leadership Development System, which includes a series of training courses covering topics such as engaging and motivating volunteers, managing projects effectively, and engaging colleagues in dialogue. Launched in 2009 at the spring ACS national meeting in Salt Lake City, the Leadership Development System has provided leadership development to more than 6,000 people, including ACS local section and technical division leaders, committee members, governance leaders, students and working professionals, and others interested in developing their leadership skills. The Leadership Development System reflects ACS’s core values of focusing on members and professionalism. Other leadership development programming includes strategic planning retreats and the annual ACS Leadership Institute. “The whole idea was to be able to develop this kind of a robust pipeline of extraordinary leaders that could take leadership roles in the soc...
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