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Mary Okurowski

March 2017 - The Public Manager

Bringing a cognitive scientist on board helped the National Cryptologic School craft mission training that was both efficient and effective in the long term.

Learning Smarter at NSA

Summer 2012 - The Public Manager

The National Security Agency (NSA) started three innovative group mentoring programs to adapt to the diverse, fast-paced, and different ways employees need to work together and share corporate knowledge. As the federal population ages—The Washington Post estimates that 60 percent of federal managers and supervisors will be eligible to retire in the next few years—it will leave an especially challenging opportunity for senior leaders to share their legacy. Newly hired Gen Y’s and X’ers have worked in groups and learned from each other as a natural part of their growing-up process. New approaches to mentoring—such as group mentoring—are worth considering. Early success in a pilot group mentoring program in a single-skill community led to a formal program and spawned two other adoptions.

Mary Okurowski

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