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Professional Development Workshop: “Leadership Lessons from the Ukrainian Drone Operator”

November 13, 2026 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (CST)

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Join us for an engaging Professional Development Workshop designed to challenge your thinking, strengthen your leadership skills, and equip you with practical strategies for navigating today's rapidly changing world.

Topic:  “Two Weeks to Obsolete: What Ukrainian Drone Operators Teach Every Profession About Adaptation”

Description:  The Russia-Ukraine conflict has revealed a stark new reality: in fast-moving environments, a useful tactic, tool, or advantage may last only weeks before it is copied, countered, or made obsolete. In this engaging lunch-and-learn session, Tom Channell will use the rapid adaptation cycles of Ukrainian drone operators as a backdrop for a broader discussion on agility, innovation, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving across every profession. Attendees will leave with practical lessons for individuals, teams, and organizations facing accelerating change in the age of AI, automation, technology disruption, and increasingly complex work.


Guest speaker:

Tom Channell helps leaders and technical organizations think more clearly, generate better ideas, and turn those ideas into meaningful action. After retiring from the Department of Defense in 2025 with 32 years of service, he founded All About Methods LLC, where his work focuses on innovation, critical thinking, creativity, leadership, and practical methods for improving organizational performance.

During his DoD career, Tom served as an engineer, chief engineer, systems engineering leader, workforce developer, and professor.  His experience includes leadership roles in the development of the MQ-8B Fire Scout and MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems, senior systems engineering responsibilities within the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Center, and Professor at the Defense Acquisition University.

Tom holds degrees in industrial engineering, business administration, and systems engineering. He is a Professional Engineer, an INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional, a certified DiSC practitioner, a John Maxwell Coach, and an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach. He also taught management and organizational behavior for more than a decade as an adjunct university instructor.

Tom resides in Cullman, Alabama, with Kara, his wife of 34 years, three dogs, and several bonsai that are patiently teaching him how much he still has to learn.


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Name: Katelyn Sides Baker
Phone: (256) 339-6513
Email: kbaker@leadershiphsv.org
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