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Kristi Northcutt will direct the center that provides professional education and leadership development programs and events for public service professionals across Kansas and beyond.
High-performing organizations are not built by chance. They are built through intentional leadership that embraces five leadership functions that ensure sustained organizational success. These functions — strategic stakeholder value analysis, vision and values implementation, suprasystem integration, learning and renewal, and enabling and empowering — offer a comprehensive framework for building high-performance organizations.
In today’s evolving public sector landscape, building strong leadership networks is essential for fostering innovation, collaboration, and trust across organizations. But how those networks form — and who gets included in them — can be deeply influenced by gender. Nicole Humphrey, assistant professor at the University of Kansas, offers critical insights into this intersection through her research on organizational behavior and communication in local government.