The North Carolina Chapter offered the ASA’s statistical leadership course to its members in March. Gary Sullivan from the ASA’s ad-hoc leadership committee came to the Research Triangle Park area to lead a course that included personal reflection, group discussions, and targeted exercises to develop a greater awareness of leadership.

Local leaders involved in the courses included David Banks of Duke University and Abie Ekangaki of biopharmaceutical company UCB. Banks spoke of his personal leadership development, from working in his role in government to his current position as director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Ekangaki explained the differences between leadership and leaders and the implications of those differences inside an organization’s structure.