VISIONARY: To see the big picture and translate it for others.

CONVENER: To bring diverse people and organizations together to find common ground and solve problems.

TEAM SPONSOR: To form and guide on-site and virtual teams.

MANAGER: To obtain and allocate resources with full accountability, and manage on site and virtual organizations.

INNOVATOR: To discover new ways of doing the unexpected.

MENTOR: To foster new leadership.

eLeadership means a balancing many roles and carrying them out via communications technologies!

Leadership is not limited to a position or job; it is a world view and a way of being in the world. It takes vision and imagination as well as knowledge, to be a leader.

We define leadership as the ability to bring people, tools and resources together to solve problems and achieve results. In the world today, we need to bring people together across national, geographic, cultural and other boundaries, using communications technologies tools to achieve results.

Janet develops and teaches courses and teaches about 21st century leadership for a digitally connected world as a member of the Capella University faculty in the School of Business and Technology. She has consulted with other colleges and universities on the development of curricula and courses on leadership topics.