Ted Powers — How Marines Lead: Building Elite Teams Through Trust and Empowerment

In this lecture, Major Ted Powers will demonstrate how U.S. Marine Corps leaders use trust and empowerment to build cohesive, high-performing teams ready to face any challenge. Drawing on his experience serving with Marines in seven countries, along with relevant research, Ted will show how these leadership techniques can be applied to any team, in any environment.

Major Edwin “Ted” Powers is a national defense fellow and visiting scholar at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He recently served as the second-in-command of the Cornell University Navy and Marine Corps ROTC program. Previously he served with the 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit; the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Center; and 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. He deployed as part of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa (2020), Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (2014), and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (2012-13). In 2020, he was the First Lieutenant Travis Manion Marine Corps Officer Logistician of the Year. Ted earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in Leadership from Michigan State University. He was a Distinguished Graduate at Expeditionary Warfare School.

[MuffinManUSN]

Leading comments from the front. Nothing substantive to add yet, but proving a point by being here.
Point being that having nothing to add while being first will highlight your inadequacy and detract from an otherwise solid geoup as a whole from accomplishment of a given mission, task or point of focus.
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[biznaz]

marines lead with a class-based, rank hierarchy; merit matters only amongst your peers and can be immediately negated by the whims of someone higher on the rank structure. this is corporate jargon that really misconstrues what fleet Marine Corps life is like or maybe it really is all buzzwords and segues in the officer’s mess.