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  • About Us

    The Leadership & Innovation Institute now develops and delivers DAF-wide leadership education, conducts leadership-related research and analysis, and conducts strategic outreach and consultation with external partners.  

  • Professionalism

    Heritage Today video series inspire and challenge Department of the Air Force personnel with stories of heritage and emphasize the Core Values by using enabler characteristics of character, judgment, and commitment as the building blocks of professionalism.

  • Unconscious Bias

    Unconscious Bias research indicates that it happens in our brains, but not in our conscious awareness. This type of bias is usually learned and becomes mostly automatic. It’s a “short-cut,” to automate our thinking, useful at times, detrimental at other times. Unconscious Bias can become so

  • Airmanship

    Airmanship is a mindset where you feel a sense of ownership in everything you do and everything you say. You understand every word of the Oath you took and the behaviors expected. You use the Core Values as your guide posts for your personal and professional behaviors. And you display wingman care

  • Leadership Toolkit

    The Leadership Toolkit represents a library of downloadable resources to transform human potential into effective performance. These resources empower organizations and Airmen with the information, skills, and tools to lead better, connect more deeply, and serve ethically. The current topics in this

  • PaceSetters

    PaceSetters are 1-2 page tools for use in developing yourself, as well as your fellow Airmen, in all aspects of professionalism. The tools range from recognition and resources to teamwork and relationship building. These tools are quick to implement ideas and solutions to everyday occurrences Airmen

  • Emotional Intelligence (1-2 hours)

    Increasing awareness of and facility with Emotional Intelligence sets the stage for a better understanding of individual follower responses and reactions and for fine-tuning leadership approaches to the challenges of leading an educated, professional force in the situations leaders face today. For

  • Five Voices (3.0 hours)

    5 Voices is the code for unlocking your capacity to have honest conversations and build deeper, more authentic relationships with your teams, your families and your friends. In order to lead others effectively, we need a true understanding of ourselves, our natural tendencies and patterns of

  • Five Gears (2.0 hours)

    5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time teaches you to shift into the right gear at the right time so that you can grow in your relational intelligence and increase your influence. This revolutionary text introduces you to the five different gears, or mindsets, that